Edel Burton, clinical hospital pharmacist and PhD scholar in the School of Public Health at University College Cork, discusses her research about pre-hospital care terminology and measurements. Your agency’s definition of “on scene” may be different from other agencies’ definitions, and Burton’s research will make it easier for agencies to compare their data. 

For Your Information: 

Edel’s PhD program: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/cdp-cdp/ 

The systematic review on the effects of COVID-19 on prehospital stroke response (full paper to be published in coming months): https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/5-24 

The abstract from WADEM on this research will be published here after May 2023: 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine