‘…[the] vision of the Paramedic Association of Canada is to have paramedicine recognised in primary health care.’.
‘The talk, like many others, was illustrated with several, often gruesome pictures, many from the speaker's own personal experiences which really brought the subjects to life’.
One of the current issues facing the health care system in the province of Ontario is the inappropriate use of acute care beds. The Ontario government created 14 Local Health Integration Networks to...
China is a country frequently affected by both natural and man-made disasters. For the last ten years, the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 and the Qinghai earthquake in 2010 accounted for the first and...
Malaysia covers an area of approximately 330 803 km2, consisting of Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak, and Federal Territory Labuan in the northwestern coastal area of Borneo...
In most Canadian emergency medical services (EMS) systems, clinical protocols or medical directives direct paramedic care. EMS medical directors create these documents, based on existing norms and...
The response to mental health emergencies in the community often presents unique and complex challenges for paramedics. This is often a result of the ambiguous nature of presentations, the lack of...
The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) itself was created in 1983 by three doctors with the mission statement to ‘advance healthcare, research, and education related to wilderness medicine’. The...
In Australia, mental health legislation varies from each state and territory, and while thes e laws promote the same fundamental principles, differences do exist in relation to the persons authorized...
We used a two-step approach to explore our research question. First, expert interviews were taken to identify current problems of the EMS-Innsbruck (Bogner et al, 2005; Buber et al, 2009). Second, and...
