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Impact of paramedics carrying just-in-case end-of-life care medication

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Chohan, Andeep
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Sewell, Bernadette
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Pease, Nikki
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Emergency Medical Services
 COVID-19
 End-of-life-care
 Paramedic Prescribing
 Medicines
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Journal of Paramedic Practice
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Publications - Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/1661
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10.12968/jpar.2023.15.11.447
Abstract
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it was predicted that frail community patients with symptoms of severe COVID-19 infection may need urgent symptom management—and that unless they had already been identified as being in their last weeks of life, they would be unlikely to have just-in-case (JIC) medications at home. The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust therefore placed JIC medications on emergency ambulances to increase symptom management options for paramedics treating patients with symptoms of severe COVID-19 infection and/or associated with advanced end-stage illness. Abstract published with permission.
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