Spotlight on Research

Over the past 30 years in Sweden, the ambulance response time in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has doubled—yet counter-intuitively, the chances of surviving an OHCA have also substantially...

Paramedic ethics, capacity and the treatment of vulnerable patients

After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.

Miscarriage, SUDI and neonatal death: paramedic experience and practice

The literature review was conducted using Google search and focused on paramedic practice and baby loss. The search included a focus on academic papers and books from across the social and medical...

ParaVR: a virtual reality training simulator for paramedic skills maintenance

Skills development and maintenance for many paramedic emergency procedures are challenging because opportunities to learn and practise are limited. Such procedures may be required in rare and...

Paramedic use of IV amiodarone to terminate supraventricular tachycardia

Transient SVTs are known as paroxysmal SVTs (PSVTs). Table 1 outlines the commonly encountered regular and irregular narrow complex tachyarrhythmias. Atrial flutter can be either regular or irregular,...

PTSD in paramedics: history, conceptual issues and psychometric measures

In 1994, DSM–IV replaced DSM–III, with a major change being the implementation of clinical-significance criterion to almost half of the identified mental disorders, including PTSD (Breslau and...

The education and role of the new nurse paramedic

Nurse paramedics are not a novel concept internationally—yet evidence of their effectiveness remains largely unpublished. They already exist in Australia and parts of Scandinavia, including Finland...

Legal issues in end-of-life care 2: consent and decision-making

After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.

Neurological examination 2

The articles in this series, which can be torn out for use in practice, are intended to support clinician development and to assist in the overall assessment of patient presentations. The information...

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