Director of Research, Hamad Medical Corporation: Ambulance Service, Doha, Qatar; Visiting Professor, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK; Adjunct Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Doha, Qatar; Visiting Fellow, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Pain assessment is an important clinical feature of patient care as it generally dictates the treatment options that the clinician can offer a patient. Paramedics generally spend a limited amount of...
Friday 12 April was the start of the didactic part of the Conference. In the first session, Ethics and administration, Dr Beatrice Le Bon Chami, Medical Director at Notre Dame Maritime Hospital and...
The population of Qatar is in excess of 2.6 million (76% male versus 24% female) (MDPS, 2016). Almost 90% of the country's population comprises expatriate workers, who reside in the capital city,...
Handover is also referred to as ‘handoff’, but for the purpose of consistency, the word ‘handover’ will be used throughout this article..
Outside of the delivery of clinical care, an ambulance service can be viewed as a logistics operation organisation, or perhaps more accurately as a ‘patient supply chain’ system. This system brings...
Providing simulation training at the roadside for ambulance staff is equivalent to facilitating ‘in-situ’ simulation for hospital staff. In-situ simulation is to be understood as providing...
A number of simulation facilities, programmes, and research projects have recently emerged or are taking place in Asia and Africa.
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