With the introduction of the End of Life Care Strategy (DH, 2009), greater attention is being paid to end of life care. One of the aims of the strategy is to enable more people to die at home. It is...
Reflective practice has been highlighted as a key component of evidence-based healthcare (Craig and Smyth, 2002). It is suggested that these two elements function synergistically to improve clinical...
‘Paramedics would do well to devote some time to reading this one’.
‘The move of pre-registration paramedic education into universities has ignited the higher education spark among many existing paramedics within the North west Ambulance Service’.
MedicAlert's service relies on the knowledge and quick-thinking of all emergency services professionals. MedicAlert only provide emblems which are worn on pulse points, namely the wrist and neck. This...
From May 2011, every month, JPP will contain a detachable personal reflective learning log. This will take the form of a template allowing you to record how the articles relate to your own daily...
Chemotherapy works by interfering with cell division—literally, the drugs are cytotoxic, ‘cell-toxic’. Chemotherapy is not specific to cancer cells alone and affects any rapidly reproducing cells;...
The issue is probably not who should be looking after the airway—rather it is the qualification and training that that person has received. The training to perform a laryngoscopy is not only what is...
‘A complex syndrome that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to function as a pump to support a physiological circulation. The syndrome...
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