Antibiotics

Prescribing for paramedics: pharmacodynamics

Many drugs exert their effect on the body via an action on cells. The net effect of this can be to:.

Pre-hospital assessment and treatment of meningococcal meningitis

Because bacterial meningitis is life-threatening, early diagnosis and treatment is vital (Brouwer et al, 2012)—the necessity of which is underlined in a study that demonstrated an association between...

Adult sepsis in a pre-hospital environment

Sepsis occurs when a simple infection develops to cause an overwhelming, inappropriate infammatory response. The causative pathogen is identifed by the host's innate (non-specifc) immune system, which...

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