Mental health charity, Mind, revealed that blue-light staff in England and Wales have a higher rate of suicidal thoughts than the general public. In survey of 1600 staff and volunteers, more than 27%...
Treatment and management is increasingly being directed at the rapid identification and reversal of potential causes. Reversing hypovolaemia, oxygenation and tension pneumothorax (HOT) as a priority...
The use of the PICO technique (O'Connor et al, 2008) determined initial keywords around the topic and further synonyms were then generated. The chosen search strategy was ‘burns AND cool* AND outcome...
The research as a whole aimed to explore the reasons behind the disproportionate number of referrals relating to paramedics relative to other health and care professions regulated by HCPC. The current...
Of the paramedics who were eligible, 60% responded to the exit survey (n=101)..
IO infusion is a method of administration of medications or fluids directly into the marrow of a bone (Figure 1)..
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to:.
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: .
Several models can be used in health care to assist reflective practice. Some examples include the Johns Model (2004), The Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988), and Driscoll's ‘The What?’ Reflective Model...
Historically, the origins of ‘serious play’ as a concept can be found in the seminal work of Piaget (1951) on social constructivism, and the version later developed in Harel and Papert's (1991)...
The content of the air we breathe is a mixture of gases, with each gas exerting a pressure dependent on its proportional size. This is called its partial pressure and is abbreviated as the letter ‘P’,...
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