Observations from a student exchange programme: UK and Sweden prehospital care

Although there are no clinical practice guidelines, the Gothenburg and Halland regions do use a prehospital triage system called the medical emergency...

The growing trend of simulation as a form of clinical education: a global perspective

A number of simulation facilities, programmes, and research projects have recently emerged or are taking place in Asia and Africa.

Paramedic clinical decision-making: results of two Canadian studies

In most Canadian emergency medical services (EMS) systems, clinical protocols or medical directives direct paramedic care. EMS medical directors...

Paramedic clinical decision-making in mental health care: a new theoretical approach

The response to mental health emergencies in the community often presents unique and complex challenges for paramedics. This is often a result of the...

Wilderness medicine: a fellowship programme

The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) itself was created in 1983 by three doctors with the mission statement to ‘advance healthcare, research, and...

International editorial board: meet the members

Guillaume Alinier is currently the simulation programme co-ordinator for the Sidra Medical and Research Center in Qatar where he is involved in the...

Management of heat emergencies in the military setting

Heat-related illness represents a continuum of disorders from minor syndromes such as heat cramps, heat syncope, and heat exhaustion to the severely...

Mental health legislation: an era of change in paramedic clinical practice and responsibility

In Australia, mental health legislation varies from each state and territory, and while thes e laws promote the same fundamental principles,...

Resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in an under-resourced environment

South Africa is a developing country with an upper-middle-income and advanced emerging market economy (The World Bank, 2010; FTSE, 2010). In 2009,...

Prehospital care data for traffic injury prevention: what Pakistani research tells us

Accurate and reliable data plays an important role in assessing RTI prevention and control by providing burden estimates, building political will, and...

Organizational models of prehospital care: experiences from Austria

We used a two-step approach to explore our research question. First, expert interviews were taken to identify current problems of the EMS-Innsbruck...

Paramedics in prehospital emergency medical systems across Europe

Each country has different names for members of prehospital EMS. We have classified and gathered them according to their skills. The EMS models, crews...

Assessment and treatment of trauma: an international course

Learn at your own place, at your own pace with the 2–6 hour online pre-course module which reviews essential information related to each type of...

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