| September 22, 2014 |
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Dr Geoff King, RIP
It is with great regret and sorrow that our colleague and friend Dr Geoff King, Director of the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, passed away peacefully on the 29th August 2014.
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Public Consultation Teaching Faculty Framework 2014/15
 The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is proposing to revise the Teaching Faculty Framework in connection with approval of Council Rules for Recognition of Institution-V5.
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Tender Notice: Research and Design of Paramedic Competency Standard
 PHECC is seeking suitably qualified authors to research and design paramedic competency standard for the current and future professional roles of paramedics in Ireland.
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CFR Suite of courses recognised by An Bord Altranais and ICGP
 PHECC are pleased to confirm that the CFR suite of courses have been recognised by Bord Altranais and the Irish College of General Practitioners for continuing education units and continuing professional development points respectively.
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Technology helps Ireland’s emergency services personnel to save time, money and lives!
 When we think about emergency services, we know that a workforce with a high level of knowledge, skill and experience is essential to delivering high quality care at that critical time when Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrive at the scene of an incident. An app recently developed by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) helps make this a reality by giving EMS staff instant access to detailed medical information on an extensive range of problems and situations that they face. The app also provides EMS personnel with a medication dosage calculator that is used to calculate dosages on common medications that they use, based on a patient’s age and weight.
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Irish OHCA data included in this study
Apples to apples or apples to oranges? International variation in reporting of process and outcome of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
 Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) varies between communities, due in part to variation in the methods of measurement. The Utstein template was disseminated to standardize comparisons of risk factors, quality of care, and outcomes in patients with OHCA. We sought to assess whether OHCA registries are able to collate common data using the Utstein template. A subsequent study will assess whether the Utstein factors explain differences in survival between emergency medical services (EMS) systems.
To read further the reference for the article is: Nishiyama C, et al. Apples to apples or apples to oranges? International variation in reporting of process and outcomes of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.06.031
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Correspondence/Comments should be sent to the:
Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council
Abbey Moat House, Abbey Street, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland.
Tel: + 353 (0)45 882042
Fax: + 353 (0)45 882089
Email: info@phecc.ie |
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