General BroadCAST

This month we discuss how to get the best out of remote clinical support or "top cover" calls. There are a number of human factors issues that can be at play for paramedics making ...

This month we're looking at headaches, this is a condition with a wide range of causes, from the seemingly benign migraines and tension headache to more sinister causes such as the...

This month we're taking a look at Epistaxis. It's a common presentation with a varied degree of severity. You might not think there's much to learn about managing a nose bleed, bu...

This month we're back from our break and we're tackling a topic that is known to make even the most experienced practitioners a bit flustered...Tracheostomy emergencies. The number...

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 impo...

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? ...

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...

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 w...

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...

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 the...

Whilst Aortic Pathologies may not be the most common emergency condition paramedics are presented with, they are most definitely among the most devastating. Atherosclerotic degener...

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 ...