‘For more than 30 years independent and voluntary ambulance service providers have used such exemptions based on need, not on which organisation happens to operate the vehicle’ .
‘It is essential that the profession is led by paramedics, for the benefit of those who are the recipients of paramedic-delivered care: the public’ .
The Review of Prescribing, Supply and Administration of Medicines (Department of Health (DH), 1999), chaired by Dr June Crown, proposed that prescribing rights should be extended to a range of health...
Paramedics traditionally operate in high-risk and often unpredictable environments, dealing with a range of illnesses and injuries from the critically ill, to those patients with low acuity, yet often...
Ethics approval for this research was obtained from the UTAS Human Research Ethics Committee (No. H11576)..
The biopsychosocial model is a term to describe the combination of three important factors that heavily influence the lives of patients suffering a disease or illness:.
The advent of regional trauma networks has transformed the way in which critically injured patients are managed in this country and as always, the pre-hospital phase of critical care has evolved...
A comprehensive literature review was completed to evaluate the available evidence, undertaken in late 2013.
Participants in our exercise were all members of the University of Warwick Wilderness Medicine Society. They were all enrolled on the four-year graduate entry MBChB programme which leads to...
The MIME technology consisted of two key components: i) lightweight medical sensors that were simple to apply and operate (see Figure 1), and ii) novel software that presented these data very simply,...
The prevalence of adrenal insufficiency in the UK is 110 to 120 per million and rising (Simmons–Holcomb, 2006). Chakera and Vaidya (2009) observe that Addison's disease has an incidence of 4.7–6.2 per...
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