‘It is a truly humbling experience to meet the award winners who have saved lives and to see how the people they saved are doing so well and enjoying being with their family, grateful for being...
The Canterbury Christ Church Student Paramedic Society was set up to promote the role of the student paramedic and to provide continuing professional development opportunities for all health and...
Cannulation is the main barrier to the administration of opioid analgesia, and this has been shown to be a problem in the young, the elderly, the shocked patient and the cognitively impaired. Studies...
To establish a structure to improve the development of essential non-practical skills..
Evaluation is a statement which appraises or adds value to something (Simpson et al, 1986). Evaluation is regularly paired with assessment which encompasses benchmarking and ranking; however, there...
The concept of work-readiness refers to the paramedic graduate's capacity to transfer their entry-level qualifications and job-specific competence to the workforce and to quickly adapt to normal work...
This literature review incorporates two principal searches. Initially the review interrogated the Ovid Medline database, with search terms including ‘extrication’, ‘movement’, ‘pre-hospital’ and...
Over the years it has been evidenced that early recognition and appropriate treatment of cardiac arrest can impact on survival rates, and this work emphasises the important role that bystanders can...
Every time I receive books to review from the JPP editor, I tear off the brown packaging with the enthusiasm of a five-year-old child on Christmas morning. And top of the pile sits another text on...
‘Be more than a paramedic. Be a London paramedic. London. No ordinary challenge. Become a paramedic in the world's busiest paramedic service and you'll receive diagnostic training and make clinical...
A 23-year-old woman who, while crossing the road, was hit by a car coming towards her from her right side. Witnesses reported that the car drove over the patient and dragged her a few yards down the...
The evidence base for the treatment of palliative patients by paramedics is still limited. However, recent publications by Brady (2012a; 2012b; 2012c), Gakhal et al (2011), Pettifer and Bronnert...
It is heartening to see the world rally together to assist in devastating events such as this. Many countries immediately mobilised resources in various capacities. The United Kingdom, small island...
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