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999 Abstracts

• OP 001: IMPLEMENTATION OF A NOVEL INTERVENTION TO CARE FOR ELDERLY PATIENTS WHO FALL: PARAMEDICS' VIEWS (18 April, 2015)

  Robin Chatters, Alison Porter
• P 001: MODIFIED EARLY WARNING SCORES (MEWS) TO SUPPORT AMBULANCE CLINICIANS' DECISIONS TO TRANSPORT OR TREAT AT HOME (18 April, 2015)

  Nadya Essam, Karen Windle, David Mullineaux, Stacey Knowles, James Gray, Niroshan Siriwardena
• P 002: BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS FOR PEOPLE IN BME GROUPS ACCESSING PRE-HOSPITAL CARE AND CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ANY DIFFERENCES IN DELIVERY: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS (18 April, 2015)

  Karen Windle, A Niroshan Siriwardena, Mukesh Barot, Nadya Essam, Mark Johnson, Joe Kai, Marishona Ortega
• P 003: DECISION MAKING AND SAFETY IN AMBULANCE SERVICE TRANSITIONS (18 April, 2015)

  R O'Hara, M Johnson, E Hirst, A Weyman, D Shaw, P Mortimer, C Newman, M Storey, J Turner, S Mason, T Quinn, J Shewan, A N Siriwardena
• P 004: INVESTIGATING THE UNDERSTANDING, USE AND EXPERIENCES OF OLDER PEOPLE IN LINCOLNSHIRE ACCESSING EMERGENCY AND URGENT SERVICES VIA 999 AND NHS 111: A SCOPING STUDY (18 April, 2015)

  Fiona Togher, Karen Windle, Nadya Essam, Jialin Hardwick, Viet-Hai Phung, Valerie Vowles
• P 005: INTRODUCTION OF A PREDICTIVE RISK TOOL IN PRIMARY CARE: CONTEXT AND EXPECTATIONS (18 April, 2015)

  Mark Rhys Kingston, Bridie Angela Evans
• P 006: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON THE CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE WHO FALL AND USE OUT-OF-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICES (18 April, 2015)

  Mary Halter, Robin Chatters, Marina Koniotou, Bridie Evans
• P 007: INVESTIGATING THE VOLUME OF MENTAL HEALTH EMERGENCY CALLS IN THE WELSH AMBULANCE SERVICE TRUST (WAST) AND DEVELOPING A PRE-HOSPITAL MENTAL HEALTH MODEL OF CARE FOR APPLICATION AND TESTING (18 April, 2015)

  Sian Morisson-Rees, Richard Whitfield, Sherrill Evans, Helen Snooks, Peter Huxley, Ann John, Chris Baker, Serge Engamba, Nigel Rees
• P 008: SINGLE DOSE ACTIVATED CHARCOAL FOR PRE-HOSPITAL USE, A FEASIBILITY STUDY BY SOUTH WESTERN AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (18 April, 2015)

  Richard Walker, Sarah Black
• P 009: UNPLANNED, URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE: WHAT ARE THE ROLES EMS PROVIDE FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA? A LITERATURE REVIEW AND NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS (18 April, 2015)

  Marina Buswell, Steven Martin, Caroline Lee, Phillip Lumbard, Larissa Prothero
• P 010: TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS: THE STORY OF THE SAFER 2 STUDY (18 April, 2015)

  Robin Chatters, Helen Snooks, Sarah Gaze, Marina Koniotou
• P 011: EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCH: DO THE DEAD TAKE PRIORITY OVER THE DYING? (18 April, 2015)

  Andy Hitt, Julia Williams, Tim Edwards
• P 012: STOCKLIST—A STUDY OF CLINICAL SKILLS OF CRITICAL CARE PARAMEDICS IN THE UK (18 April, 2015)

  Jim Walmsley, Janette Turner
• P 013: PELVIC FRACTURES IN MOUNTAIN CASUALTIES IN SNOWDONIA: TO STRAP OR NOT TO STRAP? (18 April, 2015)

  Hannah Browne, Linda Dykes
• P 014: USING POINT-OF-CARE CARDIAC MARKERS IN LOW RISK CHEST PAIN IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (18 April, 2015)

  James Griffiths, Julian Humphrey, Sally-Anne Pearson, David Pallot
• P 015: PROFESSIONALISM AND CARE: THE DAILY BREAD AND BUTTER OF A PARAMEDIC ATTENDING PATIENTS WHO FALL (18 April, 2015)

  Bethany Simmonds, Shane Clarke, Rachel Bradley, Jonathan Benger, Rachael Gooberman-Hill
• P 016: WHERE NEXT FOR THE PARAMEDIC PROFESSION? AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF WORK CULTURE AND OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITY (18 April, 2015)

  Leo McCann, Edward Granter, John Hassard, Paula Hyde
• P 017: SICKER FROM THE START: COPD EXACERBATION AND DISTANCE TO HOSPITAL (18 April, 2015)

  Leila Bassir, Linda Dykes, Rob Perry
• P 018: INVESTIGATING PATIENTS EXPERIENCES OF HYPOGLYCAEMIC EMERGENCIES (18 April, 2015)

  D Fitzpatrick, E Duncan
• P 019: HOW DO PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS EXPERIENCE CARE IN THE HYWEL DDA HEALTH BOARD AREA? FINDINGS FROM INTERVIEWS WITH PATIENTS (18 April, 2015)

  B A Evans, S Morrison-Rees, R Harris-Mayes, C Hurlin
• P 020: WHAT CLINICAL REASONING STRATEGIES DO STUDENT PARAMEDICS USE DURING THEIR DIFFERENTIATION OF PATIENTS WITH DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING? (18 April, 2015)

  M Catterall, J Williams
• P 021: STROKE MIMICS IN THE PRE-HOSPITAL SETTING (18 April, 2015)

  M J Edwards, R T Fothergill, J Williams, P Gompertz
• P 022: DEVELOPING A MODEL TO INVOLVE SERVICE USERS IN A MULTI-CENTRED TRIAL OF A COMPLEX INTERVENTION IN PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY CARE (18 April, 2015)

  M Koniotou, M Halter, B A Evans, A Porter, S Gaze, on behalf of the Safer 2 Team
• P 023: WHAT DO USERS VALUE ABOUT THE EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE? (18 April, 2015)

  Fiona Togher, Janette Turner, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Alicia O'Cathain
• P 024: LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND ENGAGEMENT IN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN THE AMBULANCE SERVICES CARDIOVASCULAR QUALITY INITIATIVE: CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY (18 April, 2015)

  Nadya Essam, Viet-Hai Phung, Zahid Asghar, Anne Spaight, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• P 025: AMBULANCE SERVICE TREAT AND REFER GUIDELINES: A QUALITAIVE INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF TREAT AND REFER GUIDELINES BY AMBULANCE CLINICIANS (18 April, 2015)

  Keith Colver, Purva Abhyankar, Catherine Niven
• P 026: PREHOSPITAL OUTCOMES FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE CARE: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (18 April, 2015)

  Viet-Hai Phung, Andrew Booth, Joanne Coster, Janette Turner, Richard Wilson, A. Niroshan Siriwardena
• P 027: DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX INTERVENTION IN EMERGENCY CARE OF FALLS FOR EVALUATION:IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MRC GUIDANCE (18 April, 2015)

  R Chatters, S Mason, H Snooks, The SAFER 2 team