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The growing market for so-called ‘legal highs’ is leaving ambulance staff across the UK struggling to cope with the fallout.  Legal highs, officially classed as ‘new psychoactive substances’ or NPSs, are developed to mimic class A drugs, such as cocaine and ecstasy. However, owing to their chemical structure they cannot be classified as illegal, so it is legal to possess and...

Alex Grant, student paramedic at Anglia Ruskin University and for the London Ambulance Service, shares his thoughts on the subject of violence towards ambulance staff...  Violence towards emergency service workers has become all too prevalent in recent years and the media does not seem to be doing enough to correctly inform the public that it is not acceptable.  Violence can...

London has built itself as a city that many look to as the place to visit and even live in the UK for its fast-paced atmosphere and famous sites that make it such an iconic place. But beneath all of that, as a professional working in and around the city’s streets, there would be a different story to tell and a very disparate comparison between a tourist’s perspective to a Lo...

The Airways-2 trial, currently being carried out by 4 NHS trusts, is a trial designed to compare both the cost and clinical effectiveness of Intersurgical’s ‘i-gel supraglottic airway device’ with standard tracheal intubation during the initial airway management of OHCAs (people who have suffered an out of hospital cardiac arrest). The NHS Trusts that are carrying out the tr...