The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is a regulatory body set up with the key aim of protecting the public. In order for them to do this they maintain a register of health and care...
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Paramedics have provided advanced pre-hospital emergency medical care in the US since the early 1970s (National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHTSA), 2007; Edgerly, 2013). According to the...
The developments that were envisaged by the Department of Health's (2000) healthcare reform plan have placed a wider scope of professional practice on many healthcare workers and have allowed for...
Details of the medications reviewed in this article can be found in Box 1..
Friday night was the start of the competition. We were given a comprehensive kit bag and a mobile phone to receive our scenarios through. After dinner there was a brief for our team leaders, who we...
Our American cousins have long since incorporated the management of major trauma into paramedic practice. Indeed, the evolution of trauma networks in this country was based in no small part on the...
The second contribution to Spotlight on Research this month includes a summary of a research study which received one of the College of Paramedics' small grants for research: ‘A pilot study into the...
As part of their job, ambulance workers perform many tasks that expose them to musculoskeletal risks, including adopting awkward postures (Doormaal et al, 1995; Ferreira and Hignett, 2005); moving...
The take home point of the day appeared to be that paramedics are part of a patient-focused service, and that we must continue to educate and develop, question existing practice, and embrace an...
An internet-based survey entitled the National Ambulance Service Airway Management Audit was created using the Bristol University Online Survey Tool (University of Bristol; www.survey.bris.ac.uk). The...
Croup is a common respiratory infection with an incidence of around 3% of the paediatric population per year, most commonly affecting children between 6–36 months and more commonly males than females...
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