Background: There is a growing demand for community palliative care and home-based
deaths worldwide. However, gaps remain in this service provision, particularly after-hours …

Aim This systematic review explored how non-medical factors influence the prehospital
resuscitation providers' decisions whether or not to resuscitate adult patients with cardiac …

ObjectiveParamedics Providing Palliative Care at Home was launched in two provinces,
including a new clinical practice guideline, database, and paramedic training. The aim of …

Background Emergency care providers regularly deal with ethical dilemmas that must be
addressed. In comparison with in-hospital nurses, emergency medical service (EMS) …

Background: Hospital admissions for end-of-life patients, particularly those who die shortly
after being admitted, are recognised to be an international policy problem. How patients …

Background: Paramedics face end-of-life care patients during emergency calls and more
recently through planned protocols. However, paramedics experiences and educational …

The hospitalisation and management of patients at the end-of-life by emergency medical
services is presenting a challenge to our society as the majority of people approaching …

Background: Paramedics commonly face acute crises of patients in palliative care, but their
involvement in end-of-life care is not planned systematically. Aim: To evaluate a protocol for …

Objectives The aim of this study was to map existing emergency medical services (EMS) and
palliative care literature by answering the question, what literature exists concerning EMS …

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers face many ethical issues while providing
prehospital care to children and adults. Although provider judgment plays a large role in the …