Top research priorities in prehospital critical care

We thank Mark Hodkinson1 for his encouraging comments regarding our recently published modified Delphi study and we agree that the output will help to expand the evidence base underlying prehospital critical care delivery.2 We would like to respond to the points raised within the letter. The author rightly notes that a considerably lower proportion of paramedics participated than doctors. We stipulated a minimum of 6 months in a prehospital critical care role for clinicians to be eligible to participate but other than this, participation was open to all for rounds 1 and 2. The study was advertised through social media, circulated to individual Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) charities, and via the National HEMS Research & Audit Forum (NHRAF). The Pre-HOspital Trainee Operated research Network (PHOTON) is historically an organisation run by non-consultant grade doctors working in prehospital critical care with a paramedic advisor as part...
Source: Emergency Medicine Journal - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: PostScript Source Type: research