NWAS Clinical Support Manager & APP🚨| Developing pre-hospital clinical practice | Occasional lecturer | #RapidRecap 📚 | ...& away from work, the outdoors 🏔
North West, England
Joined October 2018
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🚑🚨#RapidRecap, this time exploring Chronic Kidney Disease - a quick review of key points. Is it AKI? What's the difference? And what interventions should we be cautious of? See #JRCALC & #ParaPass for more... #studentparamedic #nurse #studentnurse #ambulance #FOAMed #paramedic
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🚨🚑December's #RapidRecap looks at Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures #PNES, helping us move past the historical pejorative term "pseudo-seizures". Distinguishing between epileptic seizures and PNES is often challenging and with caution - see #JRCALC for further guidance. 🚑🚨
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🚑 The prehospital assessment of abdo pain can be challenging, with multiple pt streaming options available. How can we enhance our assessment?
1. Comprehensive and structured hx-taking.
2. Thorough physical exam.
3. An underpinning knowledge of potential causes.
Links below 👌
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🚨🚑 In keeping with the pregnancy-related complications theme of our last #RapidRecap, this month, we explore bleeding🩸. Scan the QR for the RR library and QR for bleeding CPD🚑🚨 #paramedic #JRCALC #studentparamedic #ambulance @SusanRhind1
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🚑🚨🩸#RapidRecap: Sickle Cell Disease. It's most common in people of African or Caribbean origin; take two minutes to refresh underpinning knowledge and recap the red flags 🩸🚨🚑 #paramedic #studentparamedic #nurse #studentnurse #ambulance #FOAMed
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☀️🥵#RapidRecap -Heat illness 🥵☀️. Heat stress > heat exhaustion > heat stroke > mortality. Early consideration, recognition, and intervention are essential to improving patient outcomes. Hot weather and older adults are not the only ones at risk of heat stroke; think raves too.
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If you're a newly qualified or early career professional who has recently completed or are working towards your professional registration @NWAmbulance, you may be eligible to apply for @NIHRresearch INSIGHT health and social care Research Masters studentship 👇
The deadline for the @NIHRresearch NIHR INSIGHT Programme: North West – Inspiring Students into Research has been extended to 29 July 2024.
Read more and apply: arc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/insight/
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🚑🚨#RapidRecap STEMI. Early diagnosis and prompt transfer to PPCI are crucial. Minimising our on-scene time can positively influence patient outcomes, especially those with cardiogenic shock. Women may experience 10% longer at scene; consider STEMI early. &...prepare for VF.🚑🚨
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🚨 It's time to crack down.
❌ This year, we've seen a sharp rise in callouts as a result of Easter egg hunts that have gone bad.
🗣️ We think the end of this tradition is long ova due.
📲 Read more: nwas.nhs.uk/?p=14534
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. @AACE_org launches #SafeInTheBack campaign on behalf of all UK #ambulance services to improve #safety inside #ambulances - for both #patients and staff.
Learn more and download campaign resources here:
💚 aace.org.uk/safeintheback/
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Wishing Dave and the guys the best of luck for the challenge, and a huge thank you to anyone who has donated x
We're so close to our £1250 target, fundraising for the Anthony Nolan Charity and NWAS Charity 🙌. Our 24hr, 3-peak challenge is nearly a week away 🏔🏔🏔... please donate if you can 💚 - thanks for supporting👌 @NWAmbCharity @AnthonyNolan
@NWAmbulance
justgiving.com/crowdfunding/…
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brill afternoon with the AP team today talking all things clinical and developing our SALAD airway skills.. thanks for a great session @2Quirk 👏🏼👍🏻 #CPD #Development #Leadership @gillmanihera @paramatt71 @ThoburnSteve
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First day back at school for @NWAmbulance clinical training showing how CPD can be delivered in a COVID safe manner. Andy Baines is a magician at logistics.
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It is with a heavy heart & great sadness that I had to inform our staff & volunteers of the passing of one of our @NWAmbulance paramedics from COVID-19. My thoughts are with their loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. Thank you for your service & may you rest in peace.💚
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Where is the risk? In a busy ED or in the community waiting for an ambulance? 60% of patients who arrest in hospital are alive at 28 days. That’s why #EveryMinuteMatters
Of patients who had a cardiac arrest at home and received no defib for 20mins 0% were still alive 28 days after the event. Greatest risk...our patients in the community not receiving an emergency response at the right time @FarrrllP @NWAmb_QI #EveryMinuteMatters
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I think the measure of talent for a paramedic is the ability to deal competently with a situation where they don't know what to do
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Our nurses and paramedics go above and beyond to deliver the RIGHT CARE, in the RIGHT PLACE, at the RIGHT TIME. 4x4 capability helped us to access a remote location, otherwise inaccessible. Quick wash 🧽 and ready for dispatch to next patient. #patientcentred @NWAmbulance
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ICYMI
Shock in Trauma; Roadside to Resus Podcast
itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/…
TheResusRoom.co.uk
open.spotify.com/show/4pGoo1…
#FOAMed
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Calling all @NWAmbulance HCPC registered paramedics!
Contribute to @NIHRresearch by completing a short, anonymous survey about your experiences and opinions of identifying patients who may be in their last year of life #EoLC
👉 bit.ly/1PIEOL
🗓️ Closes 05-Jan-2020
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CPR in over-80s: huge disconnect between clinician opinion of CPR appropriateness & outcome reality. Starkest in figures for nursing home residents ⬇️. If you/a loved one are in a NH, your health has failed, you NEED protection of a DNACPR. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… HT @dan26wales
