Jack Barrett
Doctorate
Doctorate Title: Developing and validating a clinical decision rule for paramedics to triage patients with traumatic brain injury who are 60 years and older who require a neurosurgical intervention at a major trauma centre.
Doctorate Description: Current decision tools used by paramedics are inadequate for older patients with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and research suggests that paramedics inaccurately triage older trauma patients. This means that an older trauma patient is likely to be transported to a hospital that does not have the appropriate services to deliver the right care to the patient. Signs and symptoms associated with a TBI will be developed into a clinical decision rule (CDR) to identify older patients who require direct transportation to a hospital with specialist trauma services.
Details:
Type: PhD
University: University of Surrey
Primary Supervisor: Professor Richard Lyon
Category: Older Adult
Funding: National Institute of Health Research Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship
Start Date: 2020
End Date: 2023
Status: Ongoing
Thesis
Awaiting
Research Interests
TBI, Older adult trauma.
Publications
Barrett, J. W. (2019). A retrospective review of patients with significant traumatic brain injury transported by emergency medical services within the southeast of England. British Paramedic Journal. (3)4.1-7
Bootland, D, Rose, C, Barrett, J. W, Lyon, R. (2019). Pre-hospital anaesthesia and assessment of head injured patients presenting to a UK Helicopter Emergency Medical Service with a high Glasgow Coma Scale: a cohort study. BMJ Open. (9)2. e023307
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