First aid guidelines for Bites and Stings: Educational Approach and Adaptation: Educational approach & Adaptation

“…Their prevalence across all parts of the world means that they are an important topic to cover in first aid education for most populations and contexts.Context: The updated First Aid, Resuscitation and Education Guidelines of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC, 2020) reflect the evidence regarding specific first aid clinical actions and pair the evidence with first aid education. This approach was designed so that users of the Guidelines may easily apply them through adaptation to relevant learner contexts, varying levels of resources and medical care, and with localized implementation strategies. …”
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Addressing Shortcomings in Contingency Standards of Care by Alexander Quan

“…Unsuited for Prolonged Resource Shortages Secondly, neither contingency nor crisis standards are currently designed to respond to prolonged strains on the healthcare system. …”
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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…We ran six focus group sessions over a 2-week period, with participants asked to provide in-depth feedback on the design, content, usefulness and acceptability of the resources. …”
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Peer support for adult social care in prisons in England and Wales: a mixed-methods rapid evaluation by Holly Walton, Efthalia Massou, Chris Sherlaw-Johnson, Donna Gipson, Lucy Wainwright, Paula Harriott, Pei Li Ng, Stephen Riley, Stephen Morris, Naomi J Fulop

“…This would enable further analyses regarding optimal service design and impact on inequalities. Study registration This study is registered as researchregistry8783. …”
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Should the Food and Drug Administration Limit Placebo-Controlled Trials? by Max Goodman, Connor Pedersen

“…Brief History of PCTs and the FDA In contemporary research practices, PCTs are used to evaluate whether an intervention is effective by comparing it to a control group that received a treatment designed to have no real effect (placebo). Throughout the 20th century there have been numerous bioethical tragedies, including but not limited to the Holocaust and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.[3] These and other transgressions have become an impetus for establishing ethical research standards preventing human exploitation in the name of science. …”
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The Bioethics-CSR Divide by Caio Caesar Dib

“…Cut Out of the Same Cloth The earliest record of the word “bioethics” dates back to 1927 as a term that designates one’s ethical responsibility toward not only human beings but other lifeforms as well, such as animals and plants.[1] Based on Kantian ethics, the term was coined as a response to the great prestige science held at its time. …”
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