Paramedic

Pre-hospital medicine: South Africa vs. the United Kingdom

‘practitioners, who provide specialist care and treatment to patients who are either acutely ill or injured, that can administer a range of drugs...

Learning about behavioural emergencies: an evaluation of paramedic textbooks

‘an acute disturbance of thought, mood, behaviour, or social relationship that requires immediate intervention as defined by the patient, family...

Obstacles to emergency medical services system design and operational features

The case study comparisons showed variation in practices and results similar to those noted in other comparisons in trade magazines and peer-reviewed...

The development and history of the paramedic profession in Israel

Israel has a national EMS system—Magen David Adom (MDA). MDA is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation that works as a standalone corporation by...

Peer-assisted teaching and learning in paramedic education: a pilot study

The national and international literature is largely supportive of PAL across different education sectors (K-12 to tertiary education) and educational...

Looking at contemporary pre-hospital trauma care systems

Trauma is a common cause of death in underdeveloped, developing and developed nations. In developed nations such as Australia, injury from suicide,...

A model to embed clinical simulation training during ambulance shift work

Providing simulation training at the roadside for ambulance staff is equivalent to facilitating ‘in-situ’ simulation for hospital staff. In-situ...

Evaluating the impact on 911 calls by an in-home programme with a multidisciplinary team

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...

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,...

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