Postprandial hypotension: lessons from Sir Roger Bannister's textbook

The following points summarise the main concepts discussed in the fourth edition of Autonomic Failure (Mathias and Bannister, 1999)..

Equity in care

Awareness of healthcare disparities experienced by marginalised communities is encouragingly on the rise in recent years. Whether as a result of a...

Pride in paramedicine: being an LGBTQ+ paramedic

I am a gay paramedic working in the emergency medical services in Ecuador. So what is it like being a healthcare provider and a member of the LGBTQ+...

Racial disparities in emergency care for seizures in the United States

Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel form the foundation of care for patients in the prehospital setting. However, the level of care they can...

Perceptions of ethical dilemmas in Australian paramedicine

Results of this study highlight that Australian paramedics do experience ethical dilemmas; however, how the perceive them varies depending on personal...

Building ad-hoc team social capital through simulation

Social capital is seen as a valuable asset to both individuals and groups within organisations or communities. The amount of capital an individual or...

Cardiac syncope: lessons learned from Sir Roger Bannister's textbook

Thus begins Professor Martin Samuel's chapter on neurocardiology (Samuels, 2013). He presents powerful evidence that overactivity of the sympathetic...

Vein cannulation success rates by German paramedics: a single-centre study

The results of this pilot study indicate that 90% of vascular access attempts by paramedics were successful and that the likelihood of failure was...

A review of cases received by the Nepal Ambulance Service over one year

A retrospective hand search of the NAS database, which holds a digital record of the calls received and attended by NAS, was carried out..

Focused ultrasound in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by advanced paramedics

Of the total number of OHCA emergency calls attended by the LAS for 2018, 1444 were also attended by an APP. The numbers of patients who underwent...

Orthostatic hypotension: the last 20 years

‘The prime concern of the cardiovascular system is tissue perfusion, with blood pressure and blood flow therefore being of critical importance. These...

Appropriateness of oral clopidogrel for prehospital STEMI management

A combination of literature reviews and study trials were examined to investigate the appropriate use of clopidogrel in the prehospital environment....

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