Acute Medicine

An audit of ward nurses' knowledge of sepsis

Robson, Wayne (2007)

Many of the patients with sepsis admitted to intensive care and high dependency units develop severe sepsis/septic shock in general hospital wards. If the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's aim of a 25% reduction in mortality ...
Luxatio erecta: a prehospital challenge in patient packaging

Hardy, Pamela J; Shahane, Shantanu A; Kitchen, E (2009)
Paramedic decision making: prehospital thrombolysis and beyond

Smith, Alyson M; Hardy, Pamela J; Sandler, David A; Cooke, Justin (2010)

BACKGROUND: Mortality from acute myocardial infarction is influenced by the speed at which reperfusion therapy is delivered. In the U.K., prehospital thrombolysis (PHT), administered by paramedics, has been developed to ...
Low concordance with HIV testing guidelines in a retrospective review of intensive care practice

Dodd, Mark Christopher (2013)

Records were reviewed (n=1052) for patients admitted to a large general intensive care unit (GICU) and examined for HIV testing criteria published in UK national testing guidelines (UKNG). All actual tests sent from GICU ...