Background
There are increasing demands on Emergency Medical Services. More efficient treatment pathways are required to support conveyance decision making and patient referral in prehospital care. Point of Care testing is increasingly available and...
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Outputs (8)
Identifying patients at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the Emergency Medical call: The views of call-takers (2023)
Journal Article
There is little research on the triage of patients who are not yet in cardiac arrest when the emergency call is initiated, but who deteriorate and suffer a cardiac arrest during the prehospital phase of care. The aim of this study was to investigate... Read More about Identifying patients at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the Emergency Medical call: The views of call-takers.
Randomised trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of a supraglottic airway device compared with tracheal intubation for in-hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-3): Protocol, design and implementation (2023)
Journal Article
Survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest is approximately 18%, but for patients who require advanced airway management survival is lower. Those who do survive are often left with significant disability. Traditionally, resuscitation of cardiac arrest... Read More about Randomised trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of a supraglottic airway device compared with tracheal intubation for in-hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-3): Protocol, design and implementation.
PP71 Emergency operation centre staff views on identifying patients at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the emergency medical service call for help (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Background Internationally, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) triage emergency calls so that healthcare resources can be allocated appropriately. Studies have indicated that call triage in EMS may trigger a suboptimal response to some patients with lif... Read More about PP71 Emergency operation centre staff views on identifying patients at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the emergency medical service call for help.
EP10 A service evaluation calculating the length of resuscitation before return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) or termination of resuscitation (TOR) based on existing TOR guidance in South West England (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Background
Annually in South West England 3,500 people receive a resuscitation attempt following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Paramedics use Termination of Resuscitation (TOR) guidelines to identify patients no longer benefiting from... Read More about EP10 A service evaluation calculating the length of resuscitation before return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) or termination of resuscitation (TOR) based on existing TOR guidance in South West England.
RiHN Fina Report PDF 2023 (2023)
Report
Over a period of two years, the EPSRC funded RiHN brought together a multi-disciplinary network of academics stakeholder organisations, clinical groups and industry to provide a forum to define the challenges of realising Redistributed Manufacturing... Read More about RiHN Fina Report PDF 2023.
The reality of advanced airway management during out of hospital cardiac arrest; why did paramedics deviate from their allocated airway management strategy during the AIRWAYS-2 randomised trial? (2023)
Journal Article
Background: AIRWAYS-2 was a large multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial investigating the effect on functional outcome of a supraglottic airway device (i-gel) versus tracheal intubation (TI) as the initial advanced airway during out-of-hos... Read More about The reality of advanced airway management during out of hospital cardiac arrest; why did paramedics deviate from their allocated airway management strategy during the AIRWAYS-2 randomised trial?.
Temperature measurement of babies born in the pre-hospital setting: Analysis of ambulance service data and qualitative interviews with paramedics (2022)
Journal Article
Background: Birth before arrival at hospital (BBA) is associated with unfavourable perinatal outcomes and increased mortality. An important risk factor for mortality following BBA is hypothermia, and emergency medical services (EMS) providers are wel... Read More about Temperature measurement of babies born in the pre-hospital setting: Analysis of ambulance service data and qualitative interviews with paramedics.