Peer-led training and assessment in basic life support for healthcare students: synthesis of literature review and fifteen years practical experience

PR Harvey, CV Higenbottam, A Owen, J Hulme… - Resuscitation, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: In 1995, the University of Birmingham, UK, School of Medicine and
Dentistry replaced lecture-based basic life support (BLS) teaching with a peer-led, practical …

Effect of lower tidal volume ventilation facilitated by extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal vs standard care ventilation on 90-day mortality in patients with acute …

JJ McNamee, MA Gillies, NA Barrett, GD Perkins… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In patients who require mechanical ventilation for acute hypoxemic respiratory
failure, further reduction in tidal volumes, compared with conventional low tidal volume …

Rescuer fatigue under the 2010 ERC guidelines, and its effect on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performance

CH McDonald, J Heggie, CM Jones… - Emergency Medicine …, 2013 - emj.bmj.com
Background Updated life-support guidelines were published by the European Resuscitation
Council (ERC) in 2010, increasing the required depth and rate of chest compression …

Birmingham assessment of breathing study (BABS)

GD Perkins, B Stephenson, J Hulme, KG Monsieurs - Resuscitation, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND:: Current international resuscitation guidelines for lay people rely on the
assessment of “normal breathing” as a key sign of breathing and circulation. However, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Biomarker-guided antibiotic stewardship in suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAPrapid2): a randomised controlled trial and process evaluation

TP Hellyer, DF McAuley, TS Walsh… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Ventilator-associated pneumonia is the most common intensive care unit (ICU)-
acquired infection, yet accurate diagnosis remains difficult, leading to overuse of antibiotics …

Teaching recognition of agonal breathing improves accuracy of diagnosing cardiac arrest

GD Perkins, G Walker, K Christensen, J Hulme… - Resuscitation, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Agonal breathing is present in up to 40% of pre-hospital cardiac arrests and is
commonly mistaken as a sign of circulation leading to omission of bystander resuscitation …

Mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation competencies for undergraduate healthcare students in Europe: a European Resuscitation Council guidance note

E Baldi, S Savastano, E Contri, A Lockey… - European Journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in highresource countries, with a
survival rate of 3 to 10%. 1 Community response plays a pivotal role in improving survival …

Skill decay following Basic Life Support training: a systematic review protocol

B Stanley, T Burton, H Percival, E Beesley, N Coffin… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Survival from out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is lower in the UK than in
several developed nations. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated …

Basic life support training for health care students

GD Perkins, J Hulme, HR Shore, JF Bion - Resuscitation, 1999 - Elsevier
This paper describes a novel method for delivering basic life support training to
undergraduate healthcare students. A comprehensive 8 h programme is organised and …

Prehospital anaesthesia performed by physician/critical care paramedic teams in a major trauma network in the UK: a 12 month review of practice

C McQueen, N Crombie, J Hulme, S Cormack… - Emergency Medicine …, 2015 - emj.bmj.com
Introduction In the West Midlands region of the UK, delivery of pre-hospital care has been
remodelled through introduction of a 24 h Medical Emergency Response Incident Team …