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999 Abstracts 2016

Oral Presentations

• OP5: AN ANALYSIS OF THE IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF FREQUENT USERS OF URGENT AND EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE (18 August, 2016)

  Nicola Worrillow, Michelle Briggs, Jane South
• OP6: PARAMEDIC SUPPLIED “TAKE HOME” NALOXONE: A RANDOMISED FEASIBILITY STUDY (18 August, 2016)

  Chris Moore, Greg Lloyd, Rosanna Oretti, Ian T Russell, Helen Snooks
• OP7: NON RANDOMISED CONTROL STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NOVEL PAIN ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR USE BY PARAMEDICS (18 August, 2016)

  Mohammad Iqbal, P Anne Spaight, Ros Kane, Zahid Asghar, A Niroshan Siriwardena

Poster Presentations

• PP8: HOME OR HOSPITAL FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND ONE OR MORE OTHER MULTIMORBIDITIES: WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE AVOIDABLE EMERGENCY ADMISSIONS? (18 August, 2016)

  Sarah Voss, Jonathan Benger, Sarah Black, Janet Brandling, Marina Buswell, Richard Cheston, Kim Kirby, Sarah Purdy
• PP9: PREHOSPITAL RISK STRATIFICATION USING A MODIFIED THROMBOLYSIS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (PRISM TIMI) SCORE: A RETROSPECTIVE MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW (18 August, 2016)

  Ashley Reed
• PP10: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION INTO PARAMEDICS' THOUGHTS ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION OF NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORES (18 August, 2016)

  Graham McClelland, Daniel Haworth
• PP11: JOINT RESPONSE UNIT: IMPROVING PATIENT CARE AND SAFETY THROUGH COLLABORATIVE WORKING BETWEEN AMBULANCE AND POLICE SERVICES (18 August, 2016)

  Rebecca Zipfel, Scott McIlwaine
• PP12: FREQUENT CALLER MANAGEMENT SWASFT (18 August, 2016)

  Claire Morgan, Shaun Thayre
• PP13: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF EMERGENCY DISPATCH RESEARCH: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW (18 August, 2016)

  Isabel Gardett, Jeff Clawson, Greg Scott, Tracey Barron, Brett Patterson, Christopher Olola
• PP14: EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCHERS' ABILITY TO DETERMINE OBVIOUS OR EXPECTED DEATH OUTCOMES USING A MEDICAL PRIORITY DISPATCH PROTOCOL. (18 August, 2016)

  Ivan Whitaker, Christopher Olola, Corike Toxopeus, Greg Scott, Jeff Clawson, Bryon Schultz, Don Robinson, Christopher Calabro, Isabel Gardett, Brett Patterson
• PP15: A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY EVALUATING FACTORS AFFECTING ACCURACY AND SELF-PERCEIVED CONFIDENCE OF PARAMEDICS WHEN APPLYING THE MAJOR TRAUMA DECISION TREE (18 August, 2016)

  Mark Durham
• PP16: THE USE OF THE PAEDIATRIC ASSESSMENT TRIANGLE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SICK CHILD (18 August, 2016)

  Kimberley Ogden
• PP17: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES IN COMMISSIONING FOR AMBULANCE NON-CONVEYANCE: THE COMMISSIONER PERSPECTIVE (18 August, 2016)

  Lindsey Bishop-Edwards, Alicia O'Cathain, Emma Knowles
• PP18: IDENTIFYING PRE-HOSPITAL FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE OUTCOME FOR MAJOR TRAUMA PATIENTS IN A REGIONAL TRAUMA NETWORK: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY (18 August, 2016)

  Lee Thompson, Michael Hill, Caroline Davies, Gary Shaw
• PP19: A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE EZ-IO® INTRAOSSEOUS INFUSION SYSTEM SUCCESS RATE, INCLUDING IMPACT ON RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION (18 August, 2016)

  Ben Woodhart, Joanna Shaw
• PP20: REFINING QUESTIONNAIRE ITEMS IN A PATIENT REPORTED EXPERIENCE MEASURE (PREM) DESIGNED FOR USERS OF NHS AMBULANCE SERVICES: QUESTION APPRAISAL STUDY (18 August, 2016)

  Fiona Togher, A Niroshan Siriwardena, Karen Windle
• PP21: MEASURING IMPACT OF INVOLVEMENT IN RESEARCH – WHAT SERVICE USERS THINK (18 August, 2016)

  Bridie Angela Evans, Alison M Porter, Helen A Snooks, Vanessa Burholt
• PP22: DEVELOPING A MODEL TO ENHANCE PATIENT INVOLVEMENT IN DESIGNING AND CONDUCTING RESEARCH: VIEWS OF PATIENTS, ACADEMICS AND HEALTH SERVICE STAFF (18 August, 2016)

  Bridie Angela Evans, Alison M Porter, Helen A Snooks, Vanessa Burholt
• PP23: PRE-HOSPITAL ANALGESIA FOR PATIENTS WITH FEMORAL FRACTURE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE (18 August, 2016)

  Jenna Bulger, Simon Ford, Ian Pallister, Nigel Rees, Daphne Russell, Ian Russell, Helen Snooks
• PP24: RAPID ANALGESIA FOR PREHOSPITAL HIP DISRUPTION (RAPID): A FEASIBILITY STUDY (18 August, 2016)

  Jenna Bulger, Anne Seagrove, Helen Snooks, Bridie Evans, Simon Ford, Ian Pallister, Katy Guy, Alan Brown, Sian Jones, Leigh Keen, Nigel Rees
• PP25: PERCEIVED AREAS FOR FUTURE INTERVENTION AND RESEARCH ADDRESSING CONVEYANCE DECISIONS AND POTENTIAL THREATS TO PATIENT SAFETY: STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOPS (18 August, 2016)

  Rachel O'Hara, Maxine Johnson, Enid Hirst, Andrew Weyman, Deborah Shaw, Peter Mortimer, Chris Newman, Matthew Storey, Janette Turner, Suzanne Mason, Tom Quinn, Jane Shewan, A Niroshan Siriwardena
• PP26: PREHOSPITAL USE OF KETAMINE AND MIDAZOLAM IN AN URBAN ADVANCED PARAMEDIC PRACTITIONER SERVICE: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW (18 August, 2016)

  Tim Edwards, Joanna Shaw, Danielle Gray, Neil Thomson, Mark Faulkner
• PP27: COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY USE IN AN URBAN AMBULANCE SERVICE: A CASE SERIES (18 August, 2016)

  Tim Edwards
• PP28: MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN THE PRE-HOSPITAL SETTING (18 August, 2016)

  Larissa S Prothero, Philip Cooke
• PP29: AMBULANCE RESPONSE TIMES AND MORTALITY IN ELDERLY FALLERS (18 August, 2016)

  Emily Cannon, Joanna Shaw, Rachael Fothergill, Jaqualine Lindridge
• PP30: A COMPARISON OF MANUAL AND MECHANICAL CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION ON THE MOVE USING A MANIKIN: SINGLE-PERSON AND TWO-PERSON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE CREWS (18 August, 2016)

  Laura Blair, Simon Peter Kendal, Gary Richard Shaw, Sonia Byers, John Wright
• PP31: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN THE DESIGN OF A NOVEL PRE-HOSPITAL ACUTE STROKE ASSESSMENT (18 August, 2016)

  Joanne Lally, Graham McClelland, Catherine Exley, Gary Ford, Christopher Price
• PP32: PARAMEDIC ACUTE STROKE TREATMENT ASSESSMENT (PASTA) TRIAL (18 August, 2016)

  Lisa Shaw, Gary A Ford, Catherine Exley, Darren Flynn, Peter McMeekin, Helen Rodgers, Helen Snooks, Pippa Tyrell, Luke Vale, Christopher Price
• PP33: PARAMEDIC PRACTITIONER: A SURVEY OF SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS (18 August, 2016)

  Keith Colver, David Fitzpatrick, Matthew Cooper, Jim Ward
• PP34: LEVEL OF SEPSIS KNOWLEDGE IN UK AMBULANCE SERVICES (18 August, 2016)

  Barry Murphy-Jones, Joanna Shaw
• PP35: FRAILTY AS LIVED, FRAILTY AS APPLIED: EXPLORING LIVED EXPERIENCES IN OLDER PATIENTS WHO HAVE FALLEN AND CALLED 999 (18 August, 2016)

  Duncan Robertson, Mary Cooke
• PP36: VARIATION IN INTERPRETATION OF GUIDANCE AS AN EXPLANATION OF BETWEEN-SERVICE VARIATION IN AMBULANCE QUALITY INDICATORS ON NON-CONVEYANCE (18 August, 2016)

  Tony Stone, Alicia O'Cathain, Emma Knowles
• PP37: PARAMEDIC RESUSCITATION DECISION-MAKING IN OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY (18 August, 2016)

  Janet Brandling, Kim Kirby, Sarah Black, Sarah Voss, Jonathan Benger
• PP38: ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF PARAMEDIC RECRUITMENT AND ENGAGEMENT IN AIRWAYS-2 (18 August, 2016)

  Richard Pilbery, Jonathan Green, Helen Hall, Gregory Whitley
• PP39: DATA LINKAGE ACROSS AMBULANCE SERVICES AND ACUTE TRUSTS: ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL FOR IMPROVING PATIENT CARE (18 August, 2016)

  Sophie Clark, Alison Porter, Mary Halter, Mike Damiani, Holly Dorning, Martin McTigue
• PP40: PRE-HOSPITAL TRAUMA RESEARCH…MAKING IT HAPPEN (18 August, 2016)

  Emma Reeves, Natalie Mitchell
• PP41: TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC ATTACK 999 EMERGENCY REFERRAL (TIER): FEASIBILITY TRIAL (18 August, 2016)

  Nigel Rees, Jenna Bulger, Richard Dewar, Adrian Edwards, Bridie Evans, Chris Moore, Alison Porter, Anne Seagrove, Bernadette Sewell, Helen Snooks, Alan Watkins, Shirley Whitmann, Khalid Ali, Gary Ford, Alan Pryce, Tom Quinn
• PP42: RAPID INTERVENTION WITH GLYCERYL TRINITRATE IN HYPERTENSIVE STROKE TRIAL-2 (RIGHT-2): SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF TRANSDERMAL GLYCERYL TRINITRATE, A NITRIC OXIDE DONOR (18 August, 2016)

  Philip M W Bath, Mark Dixon, Jason Appleton, Polly Scutt, Timothy England, Hayley Foster, Harriet Howard, Malcolm Jarvis, Alan Montgomery, Stuart Pocock, John Potter, Christopher Price, Tom Robinson, Christine Roffe, A Niro Siriwardena, Nikola Sprigg, Joanna Wardlaw
• PP43: UTILITY OF PRE-HOSPITAL LACTATE MEASUREMENT FOR TRAUMA PATIENTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (18 August, 2016)

  Christopher TM Lewis, David N Naumann, Mark J Midwinter, Nicholas Crombie