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Clinical Trials & Studies
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- CAPTIM: Impact of Time to Treatment on Mortality After Prehospital Fibrinolysis or Primary Angioplasty
- CRASH: Corticosteroid Randomisation After Significant Head Injury
- CRASH 2: randomised placebo controlled trial among trauma patients with, or at risk of, significant haemorrhage, of the effects of antifibrinolytic treatment on death and transfusion requirement
- CRASH 3: Tranexamic acid for the treatment of significant traumatic brain injury: an international randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial
- FAST-MAG: Field Administration of Stroke Therapy–Magnesium (FAST–MAG) Pilot Trial
- IMPACT: International Mission for Prognosis and Analysis of Clinical Trials in TBI
- REACT: Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment (REACT) is a multicenter, randomized community trial designed to reduce patient delay
- Trial Results Centre: knowledge database that collects the results of randomized clinical trials and provides dynamic interactive systematic reviews and meta-analysis in cardiology.
- TTM: Targeted Temperature Management is a trial investigating induced hypothermia in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac cause.
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- CPD Portfolio Builder – Whether you are just starting out with recording your CPD, or have an impending audit or appraisal, this website will help you get organised.
- Proactive Paramedic – For U.K. paramedics, this website is all you need to maintain your C.P.D. portfolio to the H.C.P.C. standards.
- Paramedic Resource Centre – resources for student and practicing paramedics.
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- Proactive Paramedic – For U.K. paramedics, this website is all you need to maintain your C.P.D. portfolio to the H.C.P.C. standards.
- ResusME
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- Skeptics Guide to EM
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Journals
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- Read by QXMD – a single place to discover new research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed.
- The Internet Journal of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine
Magazines & Periodicals
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Medication Databases
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Open Access Journals
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- Highwire Press @ Stanford University
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Organisations
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- College of Paramedics UK
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- European Resuscitation Council
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- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
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- Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP) UK
- Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC) UK
- National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics UK
- Northern Ireland Ambulance Service NI
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- Prehospital, Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit (PRECRU) Australia
- Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma Unit at Monash University Australia
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- St. John New Zealand Centre for Prehospital Research New Zealand
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- Trauma Audit & Research Network (TARN)
- Trauma.org
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Paramedic Associations & Organisations
- Alberta College of Paramedics Alberta, Canada
- Ambulance New Zealand New Zealand
- Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia BC Canada (union)
- Asian EMS Council
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- New Zealand Paramedic Education & Research Charitable Trust New Zealand
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Paramedic & Prehospital Blogs
Regulatory & Licencing Bodies
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- Irish Medical Council Ireland
- Manitoba Health – Emergency Medical Services MB Canada
- Ministry of Health & Long Term Care Emergency Health Services Branch ON Canada
- Ministry of Health Emergency Medical Assistants Licensing Board BC Canada
- Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) Ireland
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- Saskatchewan College of Paramedics SK Canada
Research Databases
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