Book Review

The advent of regional trauma networks has transformed the way in which critically injured patients are managed in this country and as always, the pre-hospital phase of critical care has evolved...

Can pre-hospital recognition and intervention improve outcome for patients with severe sepsis?

A comprehensive literature review was completed to evaluate the available evidence, undertaken in late 2013.

A pre-hospital search and rescue training exercise for students

Participants in our exercise were all members of the University of Warwick Wilderness Medicine Society. They were all enrolled on the four-year graduate entry MBChB programme which leads to...

Pre-hospital technology research: reflecting on a collaborative project between ambulance service and academia

The MIME technology consisted of two key components: i) lightweight medical sensors that were simple to apply and operate (see Figure 1), and ii) novel software that presented these data very simply,...

Adrenal insufficiency: improving paramedic practice

The prevalence of adrenal insufficiency in the UK is 110 to 120 per million and rising (Simmons–Holcomb, 2006). Chakera and Vaidya (2009) observe that Addison's disease has an incidence of 4.7–6.2 per...

Spotlight on Research

Over the years there has been growing interest in the use of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool to enhance paramedic practice when managing patients with a variety of clinical presentations..

Book Review

Keeping with the mental health theme addressed in last month's review, the ubiquitous ‘ABC’ series takes up the mantle with a narrower look at one of the most prevalent aspects of mental illness..

Understanding the do's and dont's of social media

‘The College of Paramedics believes that good practice in social media is no different from that in any other form of communication’ .

HART communications: current capability and future options

‘The four key areas for HART present different challenges and requirements with regards to information technology’ .

Excelerate Technology: responding to the evolving communications needs of the emergency care sector

As the communications requirements of the emergency care sector evolve, we continue our commitment to our customers by investing heavily in new ways to support paramedics in the field, through the use...

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