Edward O’Brian

How many end-of-life care patients access unscheduled care via 999? | Journal of Paramedic Practice Background: In Wales, the number of patients who are in their last year of life who access unscheduled care via emergency ambulance services is undocumented. Aims: This study aimed to identify and ana...

A study of the number of EoLC patients accessing unscheduled care via the ambulance service over a 4 year period. www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....

End-of-life care challenging for paramedics, says Southampton Uni study - BBC News A study has revealed that end-of-life care demand is challenging for paramedics and that more needs to be done to ease pressure.

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QR code wristbands in palliative care: enhancing efficiency and outcomes | Journal of Paramedic Practice Background: Poor, inaccurate and inconsistent patient information hinders ambulance clinicians' management of patients receiving palliative care, often leading to unnecessary hospital admissions. Digi...

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Paramedics providing end-of-life care: an online survey of practice and experiences - BMC Palliative Care Background Global demand for care during the last year of life (end-of-life) is rising and with shortfalls in community healthcare services, paramedics are increasingly called on to deliver this. Desp...

Challenges faced by paramedics in England when managing EoLC include ‘unavailability of patient’s own just in case medicines’. WAST carrying JIC meds on all ambulances is ‘one solution to the medicines challenges faced by paramedics in our survey’

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Anticipatory Prescribing at the End of Life A story told with Adobe Express

🚨Our new End of Life Anticipatory Prescribing Research Repository for healthcare professionals ⬇️
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Our growing PELiCam research explained and in one place thanks to @arceastofengland.bsky.social
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End-of-life care dying wishes are granted by paramedics Bride Jess was ready to cancel the wedding - but the help allowed people to say goodbye to her dad.

The amazing Wish Ambulance, run by volunteers from Welsh Ambulance, and the rotational palliative care paramedics working in Welsh Ambulance Service

Man fulfils dying wish accompanying daughter down aisle www.bbc.com/news/article...

Interesting report on people who frequently attend A&E via ambulance, with palliative patients making up a large proportion of the cohort.

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This is fantastic