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999 EMS Research Forum Abstracts 2022

Prize Winners

• 01 ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Care home staff perceptions of balancing risks during resident transfer decisions (23 August, 2022)

  Fawn Harrad-Hyde, Chris Williams, Natalie Armstrong
• 02 Service provider views of the safety, appropriateness and perceived acceptability of telephone advice for calls to the ambulance service triaged as low urgency (23 August, 2022)

  Joanne Coster, Fiona C Sampson, Alicia O’Cathain, Jon Nicholl
• 03 Home truths and long lies? Ambulance calls to fallen patients in residential care facilities within an English clinical commissioning group (23 August, 2022)

  Josh Miller, Andrew Barlow, Vivek Khashu
• 04 People with diabetes and ambulance staff perceptions of a booklet-based intervention for diabetic hypoglycaemia, ‘hypos can strike twice’: a mixed methods process evaluation (23 August, 2022)

  Despina Laparidou, Vanessa Botan, Graham R Law, Elise Rowan, Murray D Smith, Amanda Brewster, Robert Spaight, Keith Spurr, Pauline Mountain, Sally Dunmore, June James, Leon Roberts, Kamlesh Khunti, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• 05 The RESearch PARamedic Experience (RESPARE) study (23 August, 2022)

  Graham MClelland, Karl Charlton, Matt Limmer
• 06 Cardiovascular disease on the frontline: 999 staff at risk? (23 August, 2022)

  Rin Passmore, Rachel Jordan

Oral Presentations

• OP07 Barriers to telephone-assisted CPR: results of a qualitative study of UK call-handlers (23 August, 2022)

  Barbara Farquharson, Gareth Clegg, Marie Johnston
• OP08 A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a paramedic-administered breathlessness management intervention for acute-on-chronic breathlessness (BREATHE): study findings (23 August, 2022)

  Ann Hutchinson, Victoria Allgar, Judith Cohen, David Currow, Susan Griffin, Simon Hart, Andrew Hodge, Suzanne Mason, Matthew Northgraves, Joanne Reeve, Flavia Swan, Miriam Johnson
• OP09 The COVID-19 ambulance response assessment (CARA): measuring the psychological stress and preparedness of ambulance staff to deliver care during the first wave of the SARS-COV–2 pandemic in the UK in 2020 (23 August, 2022)

  Jack Barrett, Julia Williams, Kate Bennett-Eastley, Paul Owen, Salman Naeem, Anthony Herbland, James King, Craig Mortimer

Elevator Presentations

• EP10 Community first responders‘ contribution to rural emergency medical service provision in the UK (23 August, 2022)

  Vanessa Botan, Zahid Asghar, Elise Rowan, Murray D Smith, Gupteswar Patel, Viet-Hai Phung, Ian Trueman, Robert Spaight, Amanda Brewster, Pauline Mountain, Roderick Orner, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• EP11 The impact of COVID-19 on emergency medical service led out of hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation: a qualitative study (23 August, 2022)

  Alison Coppola, Kim Kirby, Ria Osborne, Sarah Black
• EP12 Emergency services provision of take home naloxone to people at risk of opiate overdose: perspectives of potential recipients – a qualitative study (23 August, 2022)

  Jane Hughes, Fiona C Sampson, Jaqui Long, Penny Buykx, Helen Snooks

Poster Presentations

• PP13 A service evaluation exploring the factors paramedics consider when selecting a conveyance destination for survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (23 August, 2022)

  Ollie Zorab, Kim Kirby, Matthew Griggs
• PP14 A step toward enhanced EMS telephone triage for chest pain: a Delphi study to define life-threatening conditions that must be identified (23 August, 2022)

  Ahmed Alotaibi, Richard Body, Simon Carley, Elspeth Pennington
• PP15 Research priorities for prehospital care of older patients with injuries: scoping review (23 August, 2022)

  Naif Harthi, Steve Goodacre, Fiona C Sampson, Rayan Alharbi
• PP16 A comparison of Australasian jurisdictional ambulance services’ paramedic clinical practice guidelines series: adult anaphylaxis (23 August, 2022)

  Matt Wilkinson-Stokes, Desiree Rowland, Maddison Spencer, Sonja Maria, Marc Colbeck
• PP17 Differential rater function over time (DRIFT) is not appreciated in paramedic raters using the global rating scale (GRS) during paramedic student simulations (23 August, 2022)

  Sebastian Diebel, Eve Boissonneault, Luc Perreault, René Lapierre
• PP18 The BICeP study: results of a before and after study of a text-message intervention designed to increase confidence and willingness to perform CPR (23 August, 2022)

  Barbara Farquharson, Diane Dixon, Gareth Clegg, Brian Williams, Pam Ramsay, Lisa Macinnes
• PP19 Advances in community paramedicine in response to COVID-19 (23 August, 2022)

  Alan M Batt, Amber Hultink, Chelsea Lanos, Barbara Tierney, Mathieu Grenier, Julia Heffern
• PP20 Self-identification of psychological wellbeing: a mental health continuum for EMS employees (23 August, 2022)

  Sasha Johnston, Jo Mildenhall, Jaimee Wylam
• PP21 Factors affecting community first responders’ role in rural emergencies: a qualitative interview study (23 August, 2022)

  Gupteswar Patel, Viet-Hai Phung, J Julie Pattinson, Ian Trueman, Roderick Ørner, Vanessa Botan, Zahid Asghar, Murray D Smith, Colin Ridyard, Elise Rowan, Amanda Brewster, Pauline Mountain, Jason Evans, Robert Spaight, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• PP22 Delivery of public health interventions by the ambulance sector (23 August, 2022)

  Suzanne Ablard, Anna Cantrell, Steven Poulton, Elisha Miller, Andrew Booth, Andrew Lee, Suzanne Mason, Fiona Bell
• PP23 Improving CPR quality by the innovative use of a CPR quality officer: a simulation randomised control trial (23 August, 2022)

  Kacper Sumera, Tomasz Ilczak, Jon Dearnley Lane, Morten Bakkerud, Jeremy Pallas, Sandra Ortega Martorell, Tom Quinn, John Sandars, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• PP24 Emergent themes of interviews with NHS staff involved in creating and implementing a Wales-wide framework for improving EDs (23 August, 2022)

  Katie Jones, Jaynie Rance
• PP25 Activities and experiences of medical student first responders: a mixed methods study (23 August, 2022)

  Andrew Orsi, Adam Watson, Vanessa Botan, Nimali Wijegoonewardene, Dylan Lloyd, Nic Dunbar, Zahid Asghar, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
• PP26 Exploring the use of pre-hospital pre-alerts and their impact on patients, ambulance service and emergency department staff: protocol for a mixed methods study (23 August, 2022)

  Fiona C Sampson, Fiona Bell, Peter Webster, Joanne Coster, Rachael O’Hara, Steve Goodacre, Alexis Foster, Jamie Miles, Mark Millins, Andrew Pountney, Andy Rosser, Robert Spaight, Janette Turner, Aimee Boyd, Richard Pilbery, Jaqui Long
• PP27 NHS 111 staff and user views of online NHS 111: a useful adjunct to the NHS 111 telephone service (23 August, 2022)

  Fiona C Sampson, Janette Turner, Emma Knowles, Jaqui Long, Joanne Coster
• PP28 Stakeholder perspectives of piloting pre-hospital COVID-19 lateral flow test and direct admissions pathway: exploring why well received ideas have low uptake (23 August, 2022)

  Fiona C Sampson, Joanne Coster, Fiona Bell, Elisha Miller, Nicholas Easom
• PP29 Aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and wellbeing of patients with thalassemia major in Pakistan: a qualitative study (23 August, 2022)

  Muhammad Hammad
• PP30 Comparing on-scene times and conveyance rates in medical, traumatic and psychiatric presentations to the ambulance service (23 August, 2022)

  Richard Corrall, Dougie Marks
• PP31 Airway management at adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a survey of current UK ambulance service policy (23 August, 2022)

  Mohammed Aljanoubi, Terry Brown, Keith Couper, Rachel Fothergill, Gavin Perkins
• PP32 Airway management of cardiac and respiratory arrest patients in the pre-hospital environment (23 August, 2022)

  Liam Clarke, Joanna Shaw, Rachael Fothergill
• PP33 Use of point of care ultrasound in prehospital care: an interview study (23 August, 2022)

  Joseph Akanuwe, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Luc Bidaut, Pauline Mitchell, Paul Bird, Dan Lasserson, Richard Lilford
• PP34 Prehospital feedback & follow-up: a review of current practice in the United Kingdom (23 August, 2022)

  Caitlin Wilson, Gillian Janes, Rebecca Lawton, Jonathan Benn
• PP35 Predictors and effects of prehospital feedback: protocol for a mixed-methods diary study (23 August, 2022)

  Caitlin Wilson, Luke Budworth, Gillian Janes, Rebecca Lawton, Jonathan Benn
• PP36 Empathy and conscious vicarious pain in emergency ambulance workers (23 August, 2022)

  Alison Brown
• PP37 Examining the potential for uncontrolled organ donation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada – a sub analysis of the canROC registry (23 August, 2022)

  Chelsea Lanos, Ian Drennan, Alan Batt, Karim Solimon, Steve Lin, Christian Vaillancourt, Sonny Dhanani, Dominique Cook, Sue Jenkins
• PP38 Impact of working through COVID-19 on ambulance staff resilience and intention to leave the NHS: a mixed methods study (23 August, 2022)

  Joanne Coster, Rachel O’Hara, Richard Glendinning, Peter Nolan, Deborah Roy, Andrew Weyman
• PP39 Emergency service provider perspectives of feasibility and acceptability of emergency services distribution of take home naloxone (23 August, 2022)

  Fiona C Sampson, Jane Hughes, Jaqui Long, Penny Buykx, Helen Snooks
• PP40 Could we identify the prehospital optimal shock energy for defibrillation? Answering the question that is POSED (23 August, 2022)

  Helen Pocock, Charles D Deakin, Ranjit Lall, Gavin D Perkins
• PP41 Simulated ambulance shifts using virtual reality: a service evaluation (23 August, 2022)

  Sasha Johnston, Gary Strong, Steve Knowles
• PP42 Perceptions and experiences of wellbeing provision for NHS ambulance staff: a qualitative interview study of wellbeing leads and frontline staff (23 August, 2022)

  Viet-Hai Phung, Gary Pritchard, Kristy Sanderson, Fiona Bell, Kelly Hird, Paresh Wankhade, Zahid Asghar, Niro Siriwardena
• PP43 Line manager knowledge and concerns when managing female staff during the menopause transition in one UK ambulance service (23 August, 2022)

  Theresa Foster, Larissa Prothero, Tessa Mochrie
• PP44 Effect of COVID-19 on the operational realities of the non-urban Canadian paramedic (23 August, 2022)

  J Chris Smith, Wesley S Burr
• PP45 ‘Every day was a learning curve’: the experience of implementing COVID-19 triage protocols in UK ambulance services – a qualitative study (23 August, 2022)

  Alison Porter, Fiona Bell, Mike Brady, Shona Brown, Andy Carson-Stevens, Edward Duncan, Louise England, Bridie Evans, Theresa Foster, John Gallanders, Imogen Gunson, Barbara Harrington, Robert Harris-Mayes, Mark Kingston, Ronan Lyons, Elisha Miller, Andy Newton, Tom Quinn, Andy Rosser, Niro Siriwardena, Helen Snooks, Robert Spaight, Alan Watkins, Victoria Williams
• PP46 Paramedics in primary care: implementation matters (23 August, 2022)

  Mark Kingston, Alison Porter