PRIMARY SURVEY
Primary Survey
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WEIGHTY ISSUES
We keep hearing in the general press that children are getting heavier and this has led to criticism of the use of standard formulae to estimate the weight of children who present to hospital in an emergency. Perhaps it is time to forget all those traditional formulae and methods of estimating children’s weight and try something new? This is the line taken by Krieser and colleagues from Australia, with interesting results.
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VIOLENCE TOWARDS PARAMEDICS
Another study from Australia reports on a worrying aspect of front line emergency care. The nature of working as a paramedic requires the ability to be decisive under pressure in an often clinically challenging setting. But this setting is rendered even more difficult as a result of aggressive acts being aimed against paramedics. These aggressive acts include damage to property, verbal and physical abuse, but also sexual harassment and even sexual assault.
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