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999 Abstracts 2019

Prize Winners

• 01 Accuracy of ECG chest lead placements by paramedics (24 September, 2019)

  Pete Gregory, Stephen Lodge, Suzy Paget, Tim Kilner
• 02 ‘Have you had the surgery?’: A survey of transgender and non-binary patients’ experiences of interacting with the ambulance service (24 September, 2019)

  Chloé Barley, Alec Tooms
• 03 Opioid overdose death in wales from 2012 to 2015: a linked data autopsy study (24 September, 2019)

  Matthew Jones, Alan Watkins, Jenna Bulger, Ann John, Helen Snooks, Ceri Bradshaw, Gordon Fuller

Oral Presentations

• OP4 Accessing unplanned and emergency health services – experiences of asylum seekers, refused asylum seekers and refugees living in wales (24 September, 2019)

  Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Bridie Evans, Wedad Alonazi, Alex Glendenning, Matthew Jones, Ann John, Talha Khan, Mark Rhys Kingston, Cathrin Manning, Sam Moyo, Alison Porter, Melody Rhydderch, Grace Rungua, Daphne Russell, Ian Russell, Rebecca Scott, Victoria Williams, Helen Snooks
• OP5 Closing emergency departments in england (CLOSED): the impact on ambulance services (24 September, 2019)

  Emma Knowles, Neil Shephard, Tony Stone, Lindsey Bishop-Edwards, Enid Hirst, Linda Abouzeid, Suzanne Mason, Jon Nicholl
• OP6 A qualitative study on conveyance decision-making during emergency call outs to people with dementia: The HOMEWARD project (24 September, 2019)

  Sarah Voss, Kim Kirby, Janet Brandling, Jonathan Benger
• OP7 Palliative care in paramedic practice: a retrospective cohort study (24 September, 2019)

  Bill Lord, Emily Andrew, Karen Smith, Amanda Henderson, David J Anderson, Stephen Bernard

Poster Presentations

• PP8 Trauma and the obesity epidemic: a systematic review of the impact of obesity on trauma mortality and morbidity (24 September, 2019)

  Simon Mayer, Sumitra Lahiri, Joseph Rowles
• PP9 Managing alcohol intoxication in the night-time economy: staff and patient perspectives (24 September, 2019)

  Andy Irving, Davina Allen, Joanne Blake, Simon Moore, Steve Goodacre
• PP10 A rapid response falls service – a new solution to a growing problem? (24 September, 2019)

  Karl Charlton
• PP11 Relationship between hospital characteristics and survival outcomes in out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients treated and transported by yorkshire ambulance service (YAS) (24 September, 2019)

  Anthony Platt
• PP12 An evaluation of the role of SCAS in the attendance to call-outs and the transport to hospital of older people with dementia (24 September, 2019)

  Chloe Lofthouse-Jones, Helen Pocock, Phil King, Patryk Jadzinski, Ed England, Sarah Taylor, Julian Cavalier, Carole Fogg
• PP13 Understanding sickness absence in the ambulance service (24 September, 2019)

  Laura Simmons, Graham Law, Zahid Asghar, Ruth Gaunt, A Niroshan Siriwardena
• PP14 Soiled airway tracheal intubation and the effectiveness of decontamination (SATIATED) by paramedics: a randomised controlled manikin study (24 September, 2019)

  Richard Pilbery, M Dawn Teare
• PP15 Predicting variations of calls to an ambulance service in the UK caused by circulating infections using-deep learning methods (24 September, 2019)

  Thilo Reich, Marcin Budka
• PP16 Prehospital recognition and antibiotics for 999 patients with sepsis: feasibility study results (24 September, 2019)

  Jenna Bulger, Susan Allen, Jan Davies, Timothy Driscoll, Gemma Ellis, Greg Fegan, Theresa Foster, Nick Francis, Saiful Islam, Matt Morgan, Prabath Nanayakkara, Gavin Perkins, Alison Porter, Timothy Rainer, Samuel Ricketts, Bernadette Sewell, Tracy Shanahan, Fang Gao Smith, Mike Smyth, Helen Snooks, Chris Moore
• PP17 Ambulance paramedics responding to urgent patient requests in general practice for home visits – evaluation development (ARRIVE) (24 September, 2019)

  Jenna Bulger, Timothy Driscoll, Ather Hussain, Adrian Edwards, Bridie Evans, Lesley Griffiths, Mari James, Leigh Keen, Mark Kingston, Grayham Mclean, Ceri Phillips, Alison Porter, Helen Snooks, Alan Watkins
• PP18 Ambulance attendance at diabetes or diabetes-related emergencies in care homes – cross sectional database study (24 September, 2019)

  A Niroshan Siriwardena, Graham Law, Murray D Smith, Mohammad Iqbal, Viet-Hai Phung, Anne Spaight, Amanda Brewster, Pauline Mountain, Keith Spurr, Mo Ray, Iskandar Idris, Kamlesh Khunti
• PP19 Use and impact of the pre-hospital 12-lead electrocardiogram in the primary PCI era (PHECG2): mixed methods study protocol (24 September, 2019)

  Lucia Gavalova, Mary Halter, Helen Snooks, Chris Gale, Clive Weston, Alan Watkins, Scott Munro, Glenn Davies, Chelsey Hampton, Timothy Driscoll, Tom Quinn
• PP20 A retrospective service evaluation of the presentation of anaphylaxis to a UK ambulance service (24 September, 2019)

  Nicholas Groom, Sarah Taylor, Ed England, Helen Pocock, Charles D Deakin
• PP21 Non-technical skills in the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – identification for future practice (24 September, 2019)

  Stef Cormack, Steve Scott, Alex Stedmon
• PP22 Box randomisation- a novel method for allocation in pre-hospital randomised controlled trials: the ACUTE study experience (24 September, 2019)

  Thomas McKenzie, Samuel Keating, Steve Goodacre, Gordon Fuller
• PP23 Evaluation of pre-hospital use of a valsalva assist device (VAD) in the Emergency treatment of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). A randomised controlled feasibility trial [EVADE] (24 September, 2019)

  Jonathan Green, Paul Ewings, Andy Appelboam
• PP24 Lay understanding of head injury and when an ambulance might be needed: a mixed methods study (24 September, 2019)

  Mary Halter, Stefan Tino Kulnik, Ann Hilton, Aidan Baron, Stuart Garner, Heather Jarman
• PP25 ‘I wish there was CPAP in every box’: internet-based survey responses of clinicians recruiting to a pilot randomised controlled trial of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for patients with acute respiratory failure (24 September, 2019)

  Joshua Miller, Samuel Keating, Gordon Fuller, Steve Goodacre
• PP26 Incidence of acute respiratory failure cases in west midlands ambulance service (WMAS) – sub-study of ACUTE (ambulance CPAP: use, treatment effect and economics) trial (24 September, 2019)

  Imogen M Gunson, Esther Herbert, Gordon Fuller
• PP27 An exploration of the experiences of paramedics taking part in a large randomised trial of airway management, and the impact on their views and practice (24 September, 2019)

  K Kirby, J Brandling, M Robinson, S Voss, J Benger
• PP28 ‘They are not silly people – they know the difference’: clinician focus group views on a pilot randomised controlled trial of prehospital continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) (24 September, 2019)

  Joshua Miller, Samuel Keating, Alex Scott, Gordon Fuller, Steve Goodacre
• PP29 ‘Breaking down Barriers: experiences from the first year of an ED to EMS feedback ‘Postbox (24 September, 2019)

  Nicola Sommers, Lauren Evans, Terry Collingwood, Linda Dykes
• PP30 Investigating the use and effect of a patient outcome feedback intervention (POFI) on ambulance staff (24 September, 2019)

  J Brandling, K Kirby, K Allen, M Robinson, S Voss
• PP31 Strategies to manage emergency ambulance telephone callers with sustained high needs – an evaluation using linked data (STRETCHED) (24 September, 2019)

  Alison Porter, A Edwards, BM Edwards, BA Evans, PC Gripper, H Hughes, A John, A Khanom, R Petterson, CJ Philips, J Scott, A Tee, A Watkins, H Snooks
• PP32 Electronic records in ambulances – an observational study (ERA) (24 September, 2019)

  Alison Porter, Sarah Black, Jeremy Dale, Robert Harris-Mayes, Robin Lawrenson, Ronan Lyons, Suzanne Mason, Zoe Morrison, Henry Potts, Niro Siriwardena, Nigel Rees, Helen Snooks, Victoria Williams