Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ambulance CPAP Saves Lives: why don't we use it?

Current UK ambulance guidelines (Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC), 2013) advocate the use of nitrates (in particular, glyceryl trinitrate) as the first-line treatment of ACPE....

Preventing prehospital hyperoxygenation during acute exacerbation of COPD

COPD, most often caused by smoking (NCGC, 2010; World Health Organization (WHO), 2011), has a complex pathology. The disease results in either hypertrophy of the mucus-secreting glands of the...

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