PHEA
Pre-Hospital Emergency Anaesthesia, or PHEA for short, is the term used to describe a rapid sequence induction, or anaesthetic, in the pre-hospital emergency environment. its important that the team ...
11 Juni 20221h 18min
Frailty
Frailty is a term we commonly encounter in urgent and emergency care, but can you actually define it? Have you been taught to use frailty scores, and do you know what they're for? This month we've par...
10 Maj 20221h
Silver Trauma
Silver trauma is the term that is most commonly used to describe trauma in older patients. It is often used to refer to major trauma in this patient group and rates of major trauma in the over 65s are...
10 Apr 20221h 26min
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Pt 2
This is the second episode in a two-part series on COPD. In this episode, we look at the differential diagnosis to consider to a simple exacerbation, the ambulance management as well as recent change...
15 Mars 20221h 2min
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Part 1
COPD is a terminal condition believed to affect as much as 4% of the UK populace. These patients often present to ambulance crews with an exacerbation in symptoms. In this episode, we look at the pat...
15 Mars 202256min
Paediatric Fever
When you think of Paediatrics medicine, the presentation of fever is probably not far behind. This is a common finding by paramedics and ambulance staff need to be confident in their assessment and ma...
11 Feb 20221h 22min
Aortic Pathologies
Whilst Aortic Pathologies may not be the most common emergency condition paramedics are presented with, they are most definitely among the most devastating. Atherosclerotic degenerative aneurysms and ...
10 Jan 202257min
Safe Discharge
Discharging a patient is one of the riskier areas of practice for paramedics and ambulance clinicians, so it is essential that we appropriately safety net our patients and do this well, to protect the...
10 Dec 202157min
