This article focuses on the physiological, emotional and behavioural response that is fear and considers how it impacts clinical practice. It may have some benefits; for example, the release of the...
In 2016–2017, there were 16 285 injury-related ambulance call-outs to 0–14 year-olds in the north west of England (20.6% of all call-outs to 0–14 year-olds). The majority were unintentional injuries...
Wider social determinants such as income, social class, occupation and parental occupation, level of education, housing condition, neighbourhood quality, geographic region, gender and ethnicity are...
One of the first questions raised when researching PHEA is: what is it best referred to as? The SOP produced by Pinnell and Pountney (2015), followed by the ambulance trust, is so titled, but refers...
This quality standard reinforces the importance of tackling air pollution, especially given its negative impact on children, the elderly and those living with a lung disease. The standard demands a...
With UK NHS ambulance trusts answering more than 10 million 999 calls in 2017, and the average ambulance vehicle travelling 50 000 miles per year (Lord Carter of Coles, 2018), several ambulance...
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: .
Decision making is a complex process (Standing, 2010) and decisions made by paramedics are based on a variety of information sources such as experience, knowledge, experience of others, research and...
The study explored the experiences of paramedics working in rural areas. A qualitative design was used to provide depth and richness. Data were analysed through inductive thematic analysis (Braun and...
A literature search was conducted on several occasions between October 2017 and May 2018, using the Medline, CINAHL, Sciencedirect, Scopus and Academic Search Premier databases, which were accessed...
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