Ambulance TXA equipment review
Need for review into whether frontline ambulances should carry specific life-saving medications like intramuscular tranexamic acid (TXA).
14 items
3 sources
1 inquiry
Strongest theme matches
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Inquiry recommendation
100match
MAI-118 - Review intramuscular TXA on frontline ambulances
The Department of Health and Social Care, the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, the College of Paramedics and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should undertake a review into whether frontline ambulances should carry intramuscular tranexamic acid or TXA.
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terms: ambulance, review, txa
Inquiry recommendation
99match
MAI-109 - Review stretchers on Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles
The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should review whether stretchers should be carried on National Capability Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles.
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terms: ambulance, equipment, review
Inquiry recommendation
81match
MAI-49 - Review analgesia rollout to HART operatives
If the decision is that the regulatory regime should be altered in this way, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider urgently whether the use of such analgesia should be rolled out to all Hazardous Area Response Team and other specialist operatives, as part of their basic equipment, and to paramedics more generally.
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terms: ambulance, equipment, review
LGO / SPSO decision
76match
201404381 - Scottish Ambulance Service
Mrs C complained that the Scottish Ambulance Service (the service) did not have the appropriate equipment or vehicle to take her late husband (Mr C) to hospital for a scan. Mr C was terminally ill with cancer and had widespread pain which severely restricted his mobility. Mrs C was also dissatisfied that the service did not apologise or...
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terms: ambulance, equipment, review
Inquiry recommendation
66match
MAI-114 - Review optimal stretcher types for mass casualties
The Department of Health and Social Care should undertake a review, with input from other bodies as the Department considers appropriate, in order to identify the type of stretcher that is of the greatest utility in the event of a mass casualty incident. The product of that research should be rolled out to all of those with responsibility...
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terms: review
Inquiry recommendation
66match
MAI-101 - Review analgesia regulatory regime for paramedics
The Department of Health and Social Care and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) should consider urgently whether the regulatory regime should be altered to enable analgesia, such as fentanyl lozenges or sufentanil sublingual tablets, to be given by paramedics to injured persons.
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terms: review
Inquiry recommendation
62match
MAI-113 - Public Access Trauma kits equipment requirements
The Department of Health and Social Care should take steps to ensure that Public Access Trauma kits contain the equipment that is necessary to enable first responder interventions to be undertaken.
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terms: equipment
PFD report
61match
Fern Foster
Ambulance triage for suspected poisoning is too slow for timely intervention, and paramedics do not carry crucial antidotes for on-scene administration, potentially preventing deaths.
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terms: ambulance
Inquiry recommendation
61match
MAI-105 - Consider SMART Triage Tags in paramedic bags
The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider whether the Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support bags used by paramedics should contain SMART Triage Tags or an equivalent.
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terms: ambulance
PFD report
57match
Susan Smalley
Concerns include insufficient ambulance resources, unclear guidance on hospital destinations for patients, and inadequate processes for expediting urgent inter-hospital transfers.
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terms: ambulance
PFD report
57match
Joel Colk
NHS Pathways' overdose categorization system fails to differentiate severity, leading to delayed responses. Ambulances also lack the necessary antidote for certain ingestions, causing critical treatment delays.
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terms: ambulance
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-116 - Consider freeze-dried plasma for HART operatives
The Department of Health and Social Care, the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, the College of Paramedics and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider whether all Hazardous Area Response Team operatives should be deployed with freeze-dried plasma and trained in its use.
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terms: ambulance
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-91 - Review analgesia deployment for firearms officers
The College of Policing and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review whether firearms officers should be deployed with analgesia and trained in its use, as part of providing Care Under Fire.
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terms: review
PFD report
35match
Wayne Austin
Difficulties locating the appropriate cardiac arrest guidance on the JRCALC app, the inability of paramedics to comply with respiratory arrest guidelines, and insufficient Naloxone supplies in ambulances were identified as concerns.
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terms: ambulance