This year also saw the Association of Air Ambulances' inaugural Awards of Excellence. Held in the evening following the conference, the Awards were open to all air ambulance operations within the UK...
Current UK ambulance guidelines (Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC), 2013) advocate the use of nitrates (in particular, glyceryl trinitrate) as the first-line treatment of ACPE....
The heartbeat is initiated by an intrinsic electrical system composed of modified myocytes. These myocytes are organised into a group of spontaneously discharging pacemaker cells, situated in the...
In current times there appears to be a constant cry for good leaders and for good leadership to lead us out of our difficulties. As an example, at the 2011 Conservative Party Conference, David Cameron...
A relative made an emergency call requesting an ambulance for a 64-year-old female, who had collapsed at home and appeared to be having a stroke. Whilst responding on a Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV),...
In patients presenting with sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock, could lactate testing assist with pre-hospital identification?.
‘This paper found higher proportions of analgesia administration than previously reported’.
Spotlight on Research is edited by Julia Williams, principal lecturer, paramedic science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire UK. To find out how you can contribute to future issues,...
‘The introduction of preceptorship… has changed the orientation and foundation process for newly registered practitioners into practice’.
‘It seems a lifetime ago that we first met the LUCAS device.’ It was in 2002, David Halliwell (DH) was in Florence, Italy, at the European Resuscitation Council conference when he first noticed the...
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