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999 EMS Research Forum Abstracts 2021

Prize Winners

• 01 The effects of a leaflet-based intervention, ‘hypos can strike twice’, on recurrent hypoglycaemic attendances by ambulance services: a non-randomised stepped wedge study (19 August, 2021)

  Vanessa Botan, Graham R Law, Despina Laparidou, Elise Rowan, Murray D Smith, Colin Ridyard, Amanda Brewster, Robert Spaight, Keith Spurr, Pauline Mountain, Sally Dunmore, June James, Leon Roberts, Kamlesh Khunti, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• 02 Leveraging paramedic data to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on community opioid overdoses (19 August, 2021)

  J Chris Smith, Wesley Burr
• 03 The prehospital 12 lead electrocardiogram is associated with improved outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes presenting to emergency medical services: a nationwide linked cohort study (19 August, 2021)

  Tom Quinn, Timothy Driscoll, Lucia Gavalova, Mary Halter, Chris P Gale, Clive FM Weston, Alan Watkins, Scott Munro, Glenn Davies, Chelsey Hampton, Andy Rosser, Nigel Rees, Sarah Black, Helen A Snooks
• 04 Improving the prehospital identification and management of people presenting to the ambulance service with COVID 19 symptoms (19 August, 2021)

  David Fitzpatrick, Matthew Moore, Catherine Best, Federico Andreis, Edward Duncan, Martin Esposito, Alasdair Corfield, Richard Dcobbie, David Lowe
• 05 Co-design of a logic model describing components, mechanisms of change and expected impacts of case management for people who frequently call ambulance services (19 August, 2021)

  Rabeea’h Aslam, Robert Cole, Berni Diethart, Adrian Edwards, Bethan M Edwards, Bridie A Evans, Theresa Foster, Rachael Fothergill, Penny Gripper, Heather Hughes, Ann John, Ashra Khanom, Robin Petterson, Ceri J Phillips, Alison Porter, Nigel Rees, Andy Rosser, Jason Scott, Anna Tee, Alan Watkins, Helen Snooks
• 06 Speak to me: a literature review examining the participation of people living with dementia during healthcare interactions (19 August, 2021)

  Daniel Lindley, John Baxter

Oral Presentations

• OP07 On the effectiveness and costs of inhaled methoxyflurane versus usual analgesia for prehospital injury and trauma (19 August, 2021)

  Murray D Smith, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Robert Spaight, Elise Rowan
• OP08 Levels and sources of stress reported by first year paramedic students associated with their first ambulance placement (19 August, 2021)

  Matthew Warren-James, Julie Hanson, Belinda Flanagan, Mary Katsikitis, Bill Lord
• OP09 An investigation of the clinical decision-making challenges experienced by ambulance clinicians during the management of patients presenting with COVID-19 symptoms (19 August, 2021)

  David Fitzpatrick, Theresa Ikegwuonu, Edward Duncan, Martin Esposito, Matthew Moore, Alasdair Corfield, Catherine Best, Federico Andreis, Richard Dobbie, David Lowe

Elevator presentations

• EP10 The impact of introducing real time feedback on ventilation rate and volume by ambulance clinicians in the North East in a simulated cardiac arrest scenario: the VANZ study (19 August, 2021)

  Graham McClelland, Karl Charlton, Karen Millican, Daniel Haworth, Paul Aitken-Fell, Michael Norton
• EP11 Using machine learning to recover unrecorded prehospital data (19 August, 2021)

  Thilo Reich, Adam Bancroft, Marcin Budka
• EP12 Using electronic patient record (EPR) routine data to inform decisions about which ambulance stations should participate in randomised controlled trials (19 August, 2021)

  Joshua Miller, Jenny Lumley-Holmes
• EP13 Perceptions and experiences of residents and relatives of emergencies in care homes: systematic review and meta-synthesis (19 August, 2021)

  Despina Laparidou, Ffion Curtis, Withanage Iresha Udayangani Jayawickrama, Dedunu Weligamage, Marishona Ortega, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

Poster Presentations

• PP14 An investigation of ambulance clinical recommendations for the management of obstetric emergencies in Australia and New Zealand (19 August, 2021)

  Belinda Flanagan, James Pearce, Nigel Barr, Kathryn Eastwood
• PP15 Association between admission to a cardiac centre and survival to hospital discharge for adults following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (19 August, 2021)

  Johannes von Vopelius-Feldt, Gavin Perkins, Jonathan Benger
• PP16 A whole health care system review of the effects from changes to pre-hospital emergency care pathways during the COVID-19 pandemic (19 August, 2021)

  Jeremy W Tankel, David Ratcliffe, Martin Smith, Andrew Mullarkey, Jennifer Pover, Zoe Marsden, Paula Bennett, Darren Green
• PP17 Development and application of a clinical risk stratification tool using routine data from electronic patient clinical records (19 August, 2021)

  Jessica Lynde, Sarah Black
• PP18 Is there provider induced demand at emergency departments with primary care services? Patient, local and wider system factors described to influence demand for primary care in emergency departments: realist evaluation (19 August, 2021)

  Michelle Edwards, Alison Cooper, Andrew Carson Stevens, Adrian Edwards, Thomas Hughes, Helen Snooks, Pippa Anderson, Alison Porter, Bridie Evans, Jeremy Dale, Matthew Cooke, Peter Hibbert, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• PP19 Primary care streaming in emergency departments- contexts and mechanisms associated with perceived effectiveness outcomes: a realist evaluation (19 August, 2021)

  Michelle Edwards, Alison Cooper, Freya Davies, Andrew Carson Stevens, Adrian Edwards, Thomas Hughes, Helen Snooks, Pippa Anderson, Alison Porter, Bridie Evans, Jeremy Dale, Matthew Cooke, Peter Hibbert, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• PP20 UK Ambulance Service resuscitation management of pulseless electrical activity: a systematic review of text and opinion (19 August, 2021)

  Ali Coppola, Michael A Smyth, Sasha Johnston, Sarah Black, Ruth Endacott
• PP21 Hangings attended by emergency medical services: a scoping review (19 August, 2021)

  Gary Shaw, Lee Thompson, Graham McClelland
• PP22 How do emergency staff communicate with patients during resuscitation? (19 August, 2021)

  Karyn Joss, Adam Lloyd, Gareth Clegg
• PP23 Accuracy of emergency medical services (EMS) telephone triage in identifying acute coronary syndrome (ACS) for chest pain patients. A systematic review abstract (19 August, 2021)

  Ahmed Alotaibi, Abdulrhman Alghamdi, Charles Reynard, Richard Body
• PP24 Prehospital feedback in the United Kingdom: protocol for a review of current practice using a realist approach (19 August, 2021)

  Caitlin Wilson, Gillian Janes, Rebecca Lawton, Jonathan Benn
• PP25 The take home naloxone intervention multicentre emergency setting feasibility (TIME) trial: an early perspective from one UK ambulance service (19 August, 2021)

  Sasha Johnston, Helen Snooks, Jenna Jones, Fiona Bell, Jonathan Benger, Sarah Black, Simon Dixon, Adrian Edwards, Bridie Evans, Gordon Fuller, Steve Goodacre, Rebecca Hoskins, Ann John, Barbara Lawrence, Chris Moore, Emma Parry, Kelly Hird, Sarah Wait, Alan Watkins
• PP26 Stepping up: interviews with student paramedics and lecturers about a scheme to increase workforce capacity within an English ambulance service during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (19 August, 2021)

  Joshua Miller
• PP27 Features of emergency medical system calls that facilitate or inhibit call-taker recognition that a patient is in, or at risk of, cardiac arrest: a systematic mixed studies review (19 August, 2021)

  Kim Kirby, Sarah Voss, Emma Bird, Jonathan Benger
• PP28 Volunteer emergency responder response to the COVID-19 pandemic surge (19 August, 2021)

  Shadman Aziz, Aditi Nijhawan, Samantha Palfreyman-Jones, Chris Hartley-Sharpe
• PP29 Improving buckle up in EMS study (iBEST) (19 August, 2021)

  Maneeporn Thavaravej, Dhanadol Rojanasarntikul
• PP30 The Minnesota satisfaction questionnaire as a measure of advanced paramedic practitioner satisfaction with a three part rotational model of working (19 August, 2021)

  Stella Wright, Duncan Robertson, Gemma Nosworthy, Bob Baines, Wyn Thomas, Bryn Thomas, Mark Timmins, Robyn Watson
• PP31 Patterns of use of ambulance senior support during the COVID-19 pandemic: a service evaluation (19 August, 2021)

  Fiona Bell, Andrew Hodge, Richard Pilbery, Sarah Whiterod
• PP32 Pathway to portfolio: from idea to full trial funding (19 August, 2021)

  Helen Snooks, Jenna Jones, Alan Watkins, Leigh Keen
• PP33 Lived experiences of paramedics across England during the COVID-19 outbreak; initial results. Poster Presentation (19 August, 2021)

  Stef Cormack, Lindsey Boechler, Polly Ford-Jones, Cheryl Cameron, J Chris Smith, Patrick Suthers
• PP34 The experiences and attitudes of ambulance staff towards the counter-terrorism ‘PREVENT’ training: a survey-based service evaluation (19 August, 2021)

  Tessa Mochrie, Theresa Foster, Larissa Prothero, Nigel South
• PP35 The acceptability and safety of video triage for ambulance service patients and clinicians during the covid-19 pandemic: a service evaluation (19 August, 2021)

  Fiona Bell, Richard Pilbery, Rob Connell, Dean Fletcher, Tracy Leatherland, Linda Cottrell, Peter Webster
• PP36 Supporting paramedics on the frontlines amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring impactful leadership approaches in Canada (19 August, 2021)

  Lindsey Boechler, Stefanie Cormack, Polly Ford-Jones, Cheryl Cameron, J Chris Smith, Patrick Suthers
• PP37 Use of capillary blood ketone meters to improve ambulance service care of hyperglycaemic patients: protocol for a stepped-wedge, controlled feasibility study (KARMA2) (19 August, 2021)

  Larissa Prothero, Theresa Foster, Ketan Dhatariya, Andrea Lake, Adrian Boyle, Gerry Rayman, Julia Williams, Mike Sampson
• PP38 Rates of recording different aspects of patients’ social history on ambulance electronic patient records – a service evaluation (19 August, 2021)

  Chloé R Barley, Imogen M Gunson
• PP39 What is the risk of major trauma following a fall down stairs? – A systematic review (19 August, 2021)

  Christopher Holt, Samuel Keating, Michael Tonkins, Daniel Bradbury, Gordon Fuller
• PP40 Pre-hospital and emergency department analgesia for paediatric trauma – a survey of UK trauma centres and ambulance services supports consideration of alternatives such as ketamine (19 August, 2021)

  David Fish, Fiona Bell, Clare O’Connell, Alison Walker, Laura Evans, Shammi Ramlakhan
• PP41 British columbia emergency health services assess, see treat and refer palliative clinical pathway (19 August, 2021)

  Jennie Helmer, Leon Baranowski, Richard Armour, John Tallon, David Williscroft, Michelle Brittain