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Encyclopedia > British Association for Immediate Care
For other uses, see Basics.

The British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) is a registered charity [1] which acts as the national coordinating body for both schemes and individuals providing Immediate Care throughout the United Kingdom. The organisation relies on volunteer medical professionals to provide immediate healthcare assistance.[2][3] This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

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Purpose of the organisation

BASICS is an association of health care professionals, who undertake additional training as immediate care practitioners. The members provide their services in support of the statutory or voluntary ambulance services. An ambulance in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico A Helicopter used as an Ambulance. ...


BASICS as an organisation operates on four levels for its members:[2]

  1. A professional body to represent members interests
  2. An operational body to facilitate the individual schemes
  3. A training body to further knowledge amongst its members
  4. An advisory body for its members and other stakholders

BASICS members are used to provide extra skills at the scene of major incidents, or for particularly difficult patients. For this, individuals may be summoned on a case by case basis by the local ambulance control centre. Further support for the work of BASICS during major incidents came following the July 7th terrorist attacks on London, when the British Medical Association started a series of training courses (over 3 years) to be organised by BASICS.[4] The logo of the association. ...


They also work at private events, often alongside the voluntary ambulance services (Red Cross and St John Ambulance) or the statutory service. This means that BASICS members can be found at events such as: The British Red Cross Society is a prominent part of the largest independent humanitarian organisation in the world – the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. ... St. ...

  • large sporting events (including Football Association matches[5])
  • major incidents,
  • public rallies
  • mass gathering events
  • concerts

The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England (and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man). ...

Local Applications

BASICS assist the ambulance service trusts where a multi-agency response is required at a local level, or additional skills and qualification levels are required. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...


An example of this multi-agency response would be seen at an 'industrial accident' where for example a worker has become trapped in machinery. The ambulance service would work along side the fire service to co-ordinate the rescue. BASICS can supplement the skill set available at scene with a medical doctor, who can provide skills outside the remit of paramedics, such as analgesia and, if necessary, surgical procedures which might be needed to extricate the patient. The Doctor by Luke Fildes This article is about the term physician, one type of doctor; for other uses of the word doctor see Doctor. ... For other uses of painkiller, see painkiller (disambiguation) An analgesic (colloquially known as painkiller) is any member of the diverse group of drugs used to relieve pain. ...


Staffing

BASICS Nurse

Doctors

BASICS started up as a small number of General Practitioners who where concerned about the immediate care that car crash victims were receiving. Their goal was to bring increased clinical expertise to the scene on a voluntary basis. Now BASICS Doctors come from a wide range of specialities, including: This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

  • General Practice
  • Surgery
  • Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Anaesthesia & Critical Care

Registered Nurses

Nurses who specialise in pre-hospital care play a very important in the delivery of the care of the patient. The level that these skils are expressed by the practitioner is varied and may range from the first responder role delivering the all important first defibrillator shock, to the immediate care practitoner who is able to work at Advanced Nurse Practitioner level with a high degrees of clinical autonomy and decision making. First responder is a term used by national authorities for local law enforcement, local Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), local firemen and fire rescue. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


References

  1. ^ British Association for Immediate Care Entry. UK Charity Commission. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
  2. ^ a b Introduction to BASICS. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
  3. ^ "On the Scene", BBC News, 27 December 1999. Retrieved on 2007-06-16. 
  4. ^ BMA supports emergency medicine training as tribute to 7 July bomb victims (25th May 2006). Retrieved on 2007-06-15.
  5. ^ Refresher and skills update for crowd doctors. The Football Association (30 May 2002). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
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Medical emergency 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Health Sciences are the group of disciplines of applied science dealing with human and animal health. ... medicines, see medication and pharmacology. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A medical emergency is an injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a persons health or life which requires help from a doctor or hospital. ...


Procedures: Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) • Advanced Life Support (ALS) • Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) • Basic life support (BLS) • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) • First aid • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Advanced cardiac life support or (ACLS) refers to a set of clinical interventions for the urgent treatment of cardiac arrest and other life threatening medical emergencies, as well as the knowledge and skills to deploy those interventions. ... Advanced Life Support (ALS) is a treatment consensus for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in cardiac arrest and related medical problems, as agreed in Europe by the European Resuscitation Council, most recently in 2005. ... Advanced Trauma Life Support is a training program in acute management of trauma cases, developed in 1976 by the American College of Surgeons. ... Basic life support (BLS) is a specific level of prehospital medical care provided by trained responders, including emergency medical technicians, in the absence of advanced medical care. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: First Aid/CPR Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency first aid procedure for a victim of cardiac arrest. ... First aid is a series of simple, life-saving medical techniques that a non-doctor or layman can be trained to perform. ...


Trauma centers: Level I • Level II • Level III • Level IV A trauma center is a hospital equipped to perform as a casualty receiving station for the emergency medical services by providing the best possible medical care for traumatic injuries 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. ... Level I trauma center provides the highest level of Surgical care to trauma patients. ... In the United States a Level II trauma center provides Emergency medicine to trauma patients who do not need the services of a Level I trauma center. ... A Level III trauma center provides Emergency medicine to trauma patients who do not need the services of a Level I or a Level II trauma center. ...


Equipment: Ambulance • Bag valve mask • Chest tube • Defibrillation (AED, ICD) • Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) • Intraosseous infusion (IO) • Intravenous therapy (IV) • Intubation An ambulance in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico A Helicopter used as an Ambulance. ... A BVM Resuscitator A BVM Resuscitator (Bag Valve Mask) is a part of the usual equipment carried by ALS (advanced life support) and BLS (basic life support) units to provide patient treatment in medical emergencies such as cardiac arrest. ... A chest tube or chest drain is a flexible plastic tube that is inserted through the side of the chest into the pleural space. ... Typical view of the defibrillator operator. ... A semi-automatic external defibrillator An Automated External Defibrillator or AED is a portable electronic device that diagnoses and treats potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias in a patient by application of electrical therapy which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to re-establish an effective rhythm. ... An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), also known as an automated implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD), is a device that is implanted under the skin of patients that are at risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation. ... “QRS” redirects here. ... Intraosseous infusion is the process of injection directly into the marrow of the bone. ... Intravenous therapy or IV therapy is the administration of liquid substances directly into a vein. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ...


People: Certified first responder • Emergency medical technician (EMT) • Paramedic • Emergency physician • BASICS Doctor This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A Paramedic is a specialized health care professional who responds to medical and trauma emergencies in the pre-hospital (out-of-hospital) environment for the purpose of stabilizing and transporting the patient to an appropriate medical facility, usually by ambulance. ... An emergency physician is a physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients. ...


Drugs: Atropine • Epinephrine Atropine is a tropane alkaloid extracted from the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other plants of the family Solanaceae. ... Adrenaline redirects here. ...


Other: Golden hour • Emergency department • Emergency medical services • Triage In emergency medicine the golden hour is the first sixty minutes after an accident or the onset of acute illness. ... The emergency department (ED), sometimes termed the emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW), accident & emergency (A&E) department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be life-threatening and... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Typical triage tag used for emergency mass casualty decontamination. ...



 

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