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Ambulance services

Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

07 July 2025

Nottingham

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. Feedback from previous DVAC courses has said the course has positively changed peoples’ practice. The course has previously run in Belfast an...
Area of medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Care setting
Ambulance services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

04 July 2025

Belfast

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. We run DVAC twice per year with the RBHSC SimEd team in Belfast, our feedback is that we’ve positively changed peoples’ practice.
Area of medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Care setting
Ambulance services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Document

Administration of rectal diazepam to neonates and infants to treat seizures prior to hospital admission - position statement

This guidance is for ambulance services which need to administer diazepam, a medicine for treating seizures, to neonates and infants. It explains how to accurately administer a 1.25mg or 2.5mg dose directly from a 5mg rectal tube. Buccal midazolam is usually preferred to rectal diazepam in the ho...
Drugs and medicines
Emergency medicine
Neurology
Ambulance services
Epilepsy