‘This does not mean, however, that pre-hospital clinicians should not be aware of the differences and the risk of this type of failure when treating an AECOPD’.
Results of this survey have shown that about three-quarters of the patients in this sample (n=165/221; 74.7 %) had planned to give birth at a hospital or maternity centre, while about a quarter...
The search strategy did not reveal any studies concerning the teaching of interpersonal skills to undergraduate paramedics. All six studies included in this review examined undergraduate programmes...
The advanced life support group (ALSG) became a registered educational charity in 1992 and runs a variety of educational courses throughout the year (Box 1). The ethos of the organisation is to...
Overall the BASICS conference proved to be an excellent continuing professional development opportunity for paramedics and other health professionals, with many interesting and knowledgeable speakers....
In considering leadership as a process, it is important to recognise that it is a process which is fundamentally ‘human’. As such, it is vital that paramedics, the organisations they work for and the...
The suggestion that paramedics could manage their caseload differently, through referral to other healthcare providers or using alternative care destinations other than an emergency department (ED),...
The term ‘patient’ is one that has traditionally refected a biomedical provision of care that focused on an unequal relationship with an active practitioner and a passive patient; perhaps best...
Ethical approval was given by Plymouth University for the study..
‘The APLS weight estimation formula is providing increasingly inaccurate weight estimations…’.
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