We are recruiting full time, part time and subcontractor Paramedics, NQPs & ECAs for our 5 year regional contract in Hampshire.

✅ Improved rates of pay
✅ A focus on development
✅ Great vehicles and equipment
✅ Southampton (& soon to be Portsmouth) bases

Join #TeamECS !

Only three and a half years since my first n=1 pilot and I finally have my hands on my first research device for #phdlife 😍 #HRV #stressandrecovery #patience HEART ED FirstbeatGlobal

Step inside our immersion room where we train our medical students to deal with realistic situations in real time with a 'real' patient. These exercises perfectly compliment their placements on NHS hospital wards.

Hey #medtwitter , help me out? When you think about stress in your own life what comes to mind first? Stress is a……

The DAShED team are in the process of preparing a grant application for a trial comparing strategies for investigating Acute Aortic Syndrome (AAS) in the ED. If you are a UK ED and interested in being a recruiting site, please email [email protected] for further information

New favorite paper:

'How to be 80 year old and have the VO2max of a 35 year old'

Quite simple really...

* ~30min of strength training each week to keep skeletal muscle mass ~50% of total mass. 🏋️

* ~60 min of 'vigorous' (z2-4) aerobic training each week. 🏃‍♂️(Note: Nothing

Staff first - a new catch line for the NHS?

For the NHS to survive, it needs a new way of managing the workforce.

Medical systems were set up essentially for men working full time and who were happy to put careers before their wellbeing. In a modern world these systems are

Huge congratulations to Marie Johnston who has received the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine Distinguished Scientist Award 🎉🎉 #UKSBM2024

Delighted to be attending this conference on the correct day, on time, dressed appropriately and fully prepared!

Highly recommend. Excellent organisation - driven by clinical needs and safe governance. Great bunch.

🚨 NEWS ALERT: Scottish Consultant Chair Alan Robertson responds to new vacancy figures published today - and the implications for Scotland of a new offer being made to consultants in England.

🗣️'For some time now, we have been beyond crisis point' 👇👇

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Nice work from some familiar names!

Position statement on asymptomatic patients with head injury who are taking anticoagulants endorsed by Royal College of Emergency Medicine Association of Ambulance Chief Executives British Geriatrics Society SBNS UK Hospital at Home Society

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Please don’t “dip” older people’s urine.

Harm happens as a result:
1. Side effects of the unnecessary antibiotic.
2. Future diagnostic bias. “She’s prone to UTIs”
3. Diagnostic closure, and the team stop looking for the real cause of deterioration. (Constipation, meds, etc)

New qualitative study in IntEmergNursJnl from Dr Leia Kane Leia Kane and others University of Aberdeen - Patient and staff perceptions of short procedural sedation with propofol for joint and fracture reductions in the Emergency Department: A qualitative study sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are you a health sciences researcher/clinician/clinical academic? My PhD study University of Aberdeen is inviting individuals to take part in a study examining the measurement of treatment burden. More info and survey – iahs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cu…

Not only was this a great collaboration it was also published on the 29th Feb!

We are a society of parasympathetic deficiency.

People just don't know how to switch off (their devices and their minds) & just relax anymore.

And it is killing us.