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The London Ambulance Service [PDF]

Lancet, The, 1936

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Nurse preceptors' experience-based strategies for supporting learning in the ambulance service-A combined focus group and dyadic interview study.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2021
Ambulance service organizations worldwide report about an expanding professional role, responsibilities and scope of practice for ambulance clinicians, resulting in discussions concerning educational design and desired professional competencies.
K. Wallin, C. Werkander Harstäde, Anders Bremer, Ulrica Hörberg   +3 more
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“You have to live with some risk, it’s part of the profession”. Specialist ambulance nurses’ perceptions of assignments involving ongoing lethal violence

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background As a result of several violent terrorist incidents, authorities in Sweden have shifted from previous approaches of being certain that it is safe for the ambulance service to enter the scene, to a one where “safe enough” is sufficient ...
Susanne Stendahl, Linda Rollgard, Lina Behm, Andreas Rantala   +3 more
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Quality improvement tools to manage emergency callbacks from patients with diabetes in a prehospital setting

BMJ Open Quality, 2023
Diabetes is rising at an alarming rate, as 1 in 10 adults worldwide now lives with the disease. In Qatar, a middle eastern Arab country, diabetes prevalence is equally concerning and is predicted to increase from 17% to 24% among individuals aged 45 and ...
Loua Al Shaikh, Guillaume Alinier, Ricardo Romero, Hassan Farhat, Kawther El Aifa, Khawla Athemneh, Padarath Gangaram, Mohamed Chaker Khenissi, James Laughton   +8 more
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Retrospective identification of medication related adverse events in the emergency medical services through the analysis of a patient safety register

Scientific Reports, 2022
Adverse drug events encompass a wide range of potential unintended and harmful events, from adverse drug reactions to medication errors, many of which in retrospect, are considered preventable. However, the primary challenge towards reducing their burden
Ian Howard, Ian Howland, Nicholas Castle, Loua Al Shaikh, Robert Owen   +4 more
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Exploring pre‐hospital healthcare workers' readiness for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats in the State of Qatar: A cross‐sectional study

Health Science Reports, 2022
Background Hazardous Material—Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (HazMat‐CBRN) incidents, though infrequent, are environmentally precarious and perilous to living beings.
Hassan Farhat, Guillaume Alinier, Padarath Gangaram, Kawther El Aifa, Mohamed Chaker Khenissi, Sonia Bounouh, Moncef Khadhraoui, Imed Gargouri, James Laughton   +8 more
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Pre-hospital and retrieval medicine in Scotland: a retrospective cohort study of the workload and outcomes of the emergency medical retrieval service in the first decade of national coverage

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) has provided national pre-hospital critical care and aeromedical retrieval in Scotland since 2010.
Ryan D McHenry, Christopher EJ Moultrie, Andrew J Cadamy, Alasdair R Corfield, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell   +5 more
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Factors associated with pain reporting and severity of pain in the prehospital setting

Paramedicine, 2023
An effective pain management strategy requires understanding of the epidemiology of pain in the population of interest and accurate measurement upon which to base quality improvement plans. The aims of this study were to estimate the incidence of pain in
Rory J Quinn, Siobhan Masterson, David Willis, David Hennelly, Conor Deasy, Cathal O'Donnell   +5 more
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Supporting research and development in ambulance services: research for better healthcare in prehospital settings [PDF]

, 2010
Background This paper discusses recent developments in research support for ambulance trusts in England and Wales and how this could be designed to lead to better implementation, collaboration in and initiation of high-quality research to support a truly
Donohoe, R, Phillips, P, Siriwardena, AN, Stephenson, J   +3 more
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Ambulance service operational improvement [PDF]

, 2013
This document is the accepted manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in International Paramedic Practice copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the Publisher.
Alinier, Guillaume, Hutton, David
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