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Running head: LITERATURE REVIEWLiterature review on scope of paramedic practice related to cardiac arrestName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1LITERATURE REVIEWIntroductionParamedics refer to healthcare professionals, predominantly found to work in pre-hospitaland out-of-hospital settings, who form an integral part of certain emergency medical services(EMS). The scope of paramedic practice often varies between different countries. However, itgenerally includes the process of autonomous decision making that is related to emergency careof patients (1). One such emergency situation frequently encountered by the paramedicprofessionals includes cardiac arrest. This condition refers to the sudden loss of blood flow thatresults in failure of the heart to pump blood in an efficient manner. This condition most oftenleads to loss of consciousness, and absence of breathing (2). Thus, a paramedic professionals basthe responsibility of playing an essential role in initial assessment of such patients, whileproviding necessary emergency care services. This literature review will discuss the scope ofpractice of all paramedics in relation to cardiac arrest.MethodsAn effective PICO question was initially formulated that was relevant to the mainproblem statement (3). Owing to the fact that the literature review was focused on cardiac arrestemergency paramedic procedures, the question formulated is given below:Does paramedic practice among cardiac arrest patients improve survival?The PICO elements are given below:ParametersElementsP (Problem)Cardiac arrestI (Intervention)Paramedic servicesC (Comparison)*there was no comparison for this literaturereview*
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2LITERATURE REVIEWO (Outcome)Improved survivalAppropriate search terms were identified such as, “paramedic”, “paramedical”, “cardiac”,“heart”, “arrest”, “failure”, “attack”, “complications”, “cardiovascular”, and “emergency”. Thesearch terms were combined with the use of boolean operators such as, AND, OR and NOT (4).Three electronic databases were searched with these specific terms namely, PubMed, MEDLINEand CINAHL. ResultsUse of these terms in combination with certain filters such as, full text, English articlesthat were published on or after 2013, helped in retrieving 35 articles that were relevant to theresearch question. Unpublished articles, manuscripts and articles published in foreign languageswere also removed from the retrieved hits. However, after removing duplicate articles, and thosewhich did not address all elements of the PICO question, 5 articles were selected for the review.The 5 full-text articles were assessed for their eligibility and relevance to the scope of paramedicpractice in case of cardiac arrest. Each of these 5 articles focused on the different kinds ofemergency care services that are provided by paramedics such as, understanding emergencypharmacology, restoring body temperature. The literature also included information on creatingan open pathway in the lungs and implementing therapeutic hypothermia to reducecardiovascular instability, and to protect the brain from ischemia.DiscussionThe authors of one particular nation-wide population based study investigated thehypothesis that pre-hospital advanced airway management results in better outcomes among all
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