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Managing acute myocardial infarction

01 June 2004

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Health secretary John Reid has announced a £1 million scheme to assess the feasibility of providing a 24-hour-a-day seven-day-a-week primary angioplasty service for...

Letter

01 January 2004

Emergency Nurse

Letter

The report (Emergency Nurse, November) on the welcome regulatory changes that now permit the administration of diamorphine under patient group direction contains an...

Challenging delays in thrombolysis

01 February 2005

Emergency Nurse

Letter

I enjoyed reading the paper by Nick Castle and Robert Owen (Emergency Nurse, December) and thought it highly informative and well written.

Therapeutic hypothermia

01 March 2010

Emergency Nurse

Letter

I enjoyed reading Rob Fenwick’s excellent narrative review on therapeutic hypothermia in the treatment of cardiac arrest (Emergency Nurse, February).

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

01 September 1998

Emergency Nurse

Education

This article outlines the recently updated guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council and discusses the implications for nurses. It initially appeared in...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

05 August 1998

Nursing Standard

RCN continuing education

Continuing Education articles are run in conjunction with the Royal College of Nursing Institute to help you to maintain and develop your practice and can be used to...

Be part of a book on the 1950s and 1960s and share royalties

17 February 2016

Nursing Standard

Letter

I’ve been asked by a major UK publisher to write a book based on the life of a nurse who worked – perhaps as a district nurse – for some or all of the 1950s and...

The role of nurses in improving emergency cardiac care

10 August 2005

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Cardiovascular diseases exert a huge burden on individuals and society, with coronary heart disease (CHD) the single most common cause of death in the United Kingdom...

The interdisciplinary interface in managing patients with suspected cardiac pain

01 October 2003

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

The impact of specialist nurses on the skill retention, expertise and job satisfaction of ‘generalist’ nurses, and of course on patient experience and outcome,...

Stroke as a clinical emergency

01 June 2006

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Figures from the National Audit Office (2005) reveal that stroke accounts for 11 per cent of deaths in England and Wales each year, that up to 30 per cent of stroke...