How is POPS currently used in a prehospital setting within one Welsh health board?.
The aim of this study was to explore UK paramedics’ experience of treating paediatric patients in pain..
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) recently produced the fourth edition of its Facing the Future publication, which sets standards for the provision of emergency care to...
There are two types of febrile convulsions:.
Croup is a common respiratory infection with an incidence of around 3% of the paediatric population per year, most commonly affecting children between 6–36 months and more commonly males than females...
A literature review was performed using the following databases: CINAHL, Medline and Pubmed. The search terms used were ‘prehospital’, ‘paramedic’, ‘emergency medical service’, ‘cervical spine’,...
The aim of this article is to review the evidence for the use of diazepam and midazolam, and to determine which anticonvulsant is the most appropriate for termination of paediatric seizures by...
A retrospective criterion-based clinical audit was undertaken of 253 PRFs collected from the end of June 2011 to the end of July 2011, where the pre-hospital clinician identified and coded dyspnoea...
A literature search was performed using PubMed and CINAHL Plus®. Key words searched included: ‘paediatrics’, ‘supracondylar fracture’, ‘humeral fracture’, ‘elbow fracture’, ‘compartment syndrome’,...
At 23:05 pm, a 911 call was placed from a private residence requesting an ambulance for a possible overdose. An advanced life support (ALS) unit was dispatched at 23:06 pm as an urgent request and...
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