Breaking bad news: the need for a coping mechanism in paramedicine

“Paramedics …must transition from resuscitators to death notifiers in a matter of moments…this can be very challenging” .

Paramedic students' visit to the Second International Conference of Applied Medicine in Jordan

‘The final video was produced by some Palestinian students and documented a shocking incident where ambulances attending casualties from a missile...

No place for the rigid cervical collar in pre-hospital care

In 1967, Dr JD Farrington, an orthopaedic surgeon at Lakeland Memorial Hospital in Wisconsin, published a paper entitled ‘Death in a Ditch’...

Why are patients only conveyed to the hospital?

Healthcare delivery in the United States is a network comprised of disparate sources. Large systems of clinics and hospitals carve out regions and...

Clinical handover between paramedics and emergency department staff: SBAR and IMIST-AMBO acronyms

Handover is also referred to as ‘handoff’, but for the purpose of consistency, the word ‘handover’ will be used throughout this article..

Evaluation of a paramedic student patient hand-off curriculum using simulation

This is a 25-year-old male trauma patient who was the backseat passenger in a head-on motor vehicle collision. He has a GCS of 9 with pain in his...

Student Paramedics Australasia Conference inspires, educates and motivates delegates

This year's event kicked off on Friday 3 September with a number of pre-conference workshops..

Credits granted for professional education of paramedics and nurses at at US colleges with paired programmes

Both paramedics and registered nurses may be educated through certificate/diploma programmes, through associate degree programmes, and through...

Use of a nominal group technique to evaluate a remote area simulation event for paramedicine students

The results (Figure 4) indicate that the dominant positive themes of this workshop were the use of challenging and realistic scenarios, the commitment...

Interprofessional graduate programme for nursing-paramedicine degree graduates: work outcomes and participant experience

The aim of this study was to examine the employment outcomes and participant experience of the first cohort of 10 IPG participants following...

Accountable Care Organisations fund the gap—how to get community paramedic programmes paid

The American Academy of Family Physicians (2014) defines an ACO as:.

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