The results of this pilot study indicate that 90% of vascular access attempts by paramedics were successful and that the likelihood of failure was associated with greater patient age, a higher number...
A combination of literature reviews and study trials were examined to investigate the appropriate use of clopidogrel in the prehospital environment. Documentation was collected from the EBSCOHost...
A literature search was undertaken in August, 2019, using EBSCO Host, ProQuest and PubMed databases. Two search strategies were adopted: the first sought to identify peer-reviewed articles relating to...
A 45-year-old female presented to the emergency department following multiple stings from a jellyfish. She was attempting to swim across ‘The Minch’—at the point of her crossing, this is a 25-mile...
Triage in medical terms, as defined by the Oxford English dictionary, means ‘the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients...
Blood acidity, measured as a pH, is determined by the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) present. Blood is comprised of 55% blood plasma, of which at least 90% is water (Institute for Quality and...
Pre-hospital care is an interprofessional and intersectorial service that transects many areas of health care. Emergency health care has not been well-regarded, nor considered a distinct specialty in...
‘practitioners, who provide specialist care and treatment to patients who are either acutely ill or injured, that can administer a range of drugs and carry out certain surgical techniques’ .
Unstable emergency patients might experience different cardiac arrhythmias. A rarely seen arrhythmia is the p-wave asystole also mentioned ventricular asystole, ventricular standstill or third-degree...
In 1967, Dr JD Farrington, an orthopaedic surgeon at Lakeland Memorial Hospital in Wisconsin, published a paper entitled ‘Death in a Ditch’ (Farrington, 1967). He explained that the purpose of his...
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...
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