Acknowledgements The Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee is indebted to the following who have contributed to the development of the UK Ambulance Service Clinical Practice Guidelines 2006. Stephen Barnard Greater Manchester Ambulance Service NHS Trust Neil Barnes Greater Manchester Ambulance Service NHS Trust Robin Beal Isle of Wight Ambulance Service NHS Trust Sarah Black Westcountry Ambulance Services NHS Trust Tony Bleetman Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Graham Brown Westcountry Ambulance Services NHS Trust Richard Brown University Hospitals Leicester Simon Brown Royal Berkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Gillian Bryce Westcountry Ambulance Service NHS Trust Acknowledgements John Burnham Lincolnshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Colin Cessford North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust Kirsty Challen South Manchester University Hospital Ravi Chauhan Warwick Emergency Care and Rehabilitation Thomas Clarke Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust David Coates Avon Ambulance Service NHS Trust Michael Colquhoun Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust / Resuscitation Council (UK) Mark Cooke Ambulance Service Association Matthew Cooke Warwick Medical School Andrew Currie Warwick Medical School Charles Deakin Royal College of Anaesthetists Richard Diment Ambulance Service Association Ben Disney University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Sarah Docherty North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust Darren Earley Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust Jon Ellis East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust Chris Evans Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Gary Evans Lincolnshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Kevin Errington Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Yaish Firas University Hospitals Birmingham Joanne Fisher Warwick Medical School James Gray South Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Dave Greggs East Anglia Ambulance Service NHS Trust Henry Guly Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust David Haigh Lincolnshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Glyn Harding Westcountry Ambulance Services NHS Trust Pam Hardy East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust Stephen Hines London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Kim Hinshaw Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Mike Jackson Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust David Janes Sussex Ambulance Service NHS Trust Rose Jarvis Warwick Medical School Fiona Jewkes Wiltshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Graham Johnson Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Acknowledgements October 2006 Page 1 of 3 Acknowledgements Sue Jones St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust Carl Keeble East Midlands Ambulance Service Yvette LaFlamme-Williams Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Acknowledgements Robin Lawrenson Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Trust Bill Lord Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Andrew Marsden Medical Director Scottish Ambulance Service Jeremy Mayhew Kent Ambulance Service NHS Trust Janet McComb Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust Iain McNeil Royal College of General Practitioners Ken Morgan Merseyside Ambulance Service NHS Trust Fionna Moore London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Steve Mortley East Anglian Ambulance Service NHS Trust Adrian Noon Ambulance Service Association Matthew O’Meara Warwick Emergency Care and Rehabilitation Bill O’Neil London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Rose Ann O’Shea Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust Keith Porter University Hospitals Birmingham Tom Quinn Staffordshire Ambulance Service/Coventry University Iain Robertson-Steel West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust Julian Sandell University College Hospital London Tina Sajjanhar Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust John Scott East Anglian Ambulance Service NHS Trust Dougie Shepard Scottish Ambulance Service Mike Smyth Hereford and Worcester Ambulance Service NHS Trust Richard Steyn Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Richard Taffler Westcountry Ambulance Services NHS Trust Duncan Thomas Warwick Medical School Andy Thurgood West Midlands CARE Team Ian Todd London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Dominic Tolley Coventry & Warwickshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Eddie Tunn Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust Paul Underwood Avon Ambulance Service NHS Trust Anton van Dellen Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Darren Walter Greater Manchester Ambulance Service NHS Trust Michael Ward Oxfordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Jim Wardrope South Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Andy Weal Gloucestershire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Mark Whitbread London Ambulance Service NHS Trust Richard Whitfield Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust David Wilmot Wiltshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Richard Williams Royal College of Psychiatrists John Wood Avon Ambulance NHS Trust Malcolm Woollard Faculty of Pre-hospital Care Research Unit, James Cook University Hospital Matthew Wyse Coventry & Warwickshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Page 2 of 3 October 2006 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Peak Flow Charts used with permission from Clement Clarke International. The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths. Meningitis Research Foundation. The Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale used with permission from Mosby. The ICD image with permission from Medmovie.com. The committee would also like to thank the following for allowing the reproduction of their guidance to be published in the UK Ambulance Service Clinical Practice Guidelines 2006. Michael Colquhoun Recognition of Life Extinct by Ambulance Personnel Andrew Marsden Michael Ward Acknowledgements Simon Brown Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Thomas Clarke Michael Colquhoun Mark Cooke Sue Jones Janet McComb Steven Bland Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Incidents Sort Algorithm Iain McNeil Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Incidents (Special Agent) Triage Algorithm Graham Brown JRCALC Drug Codes – July 2006 Iain Robertson-Steel Resuscitation Council (UK) Resuscitation Algorithms Howard Swanton Thrombolytics Protocol Tom Quinn Mark Cooke Sue Dodd David Smith Fionna Moore Mark Whitbread Liam Penny Tom Evans Michael Langman Acknowledgements October 2006 Page 3 of 3.