British journal of hospital medicine
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Adults and children have cardiac arrests for very different reasons. The commonest reason for an adult cardiac arrest is a primary arrhythmia in association with ischaemic heart disease, i.e. ventricular fibrillation. Children have cardiac arrests because of respiratory failure, hypovolaemia (due to trauma and dehydration) and sepsis.
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This paper proposes a new way of managing the provision of flexible training opportunities by job-sharing. It shows how the difficulties of implementing job-sharing can be overcome, and gives an example of implementation of job-sharing in the context of flexible training.