User:Owain.davies

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About me This user is an Emergency Responder or Emergency Services Worker. This user is a certified first aider. This user is a lifeguard. :-] This user is polite and expects others to act accordingly. This user uses Blues and twos. This user contributes to the First aid WikiProject. No user serviceable parts inside. to / too / two This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. “,;:’ This user is a punctuation stickler. ’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. This user is a Wikipedian in the United Kingdom. The motto of the WITUK is Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, which translates to, "Let him be shamed who thinks ill of it". This motto reflects a key Wikipedian desire, and is a reference to the British 'Order of the Garter'. There are things particularly relevant to British Wikipedians at the UK Wikipedians' notice board. Please feel free to help us improve British related articles in Wikipedia!

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Contents 1 Main Interests 2 Wikipedia Contributions 2.1 Pages I Created 2.2 Pages I made major contribution to 2.3 Pages I watch and edit 3 My awards

[edit] Main Interests

Particular interests in:

• Emergency Medicine & Ambulance Care
• Emergency Services (Police, Fire etc.)
• First Aid
• Equestrian

[edit] Wikipedia Contributions

[edit] Pages I Created

• ABC (medical) - Created this page and ported information out of ABC (first aid), adding additional historical data
• Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System - The system used in the UK and elsewhere to decide clinical priority for the dispatch of ambulances
• ASHICE - Ambulance service patient reporting protocol
• British Airways flying club - Created in order to get rid of a red link!
• CHALET - The Emergency Service protocol
• Emergency - Whilst not technically creating the page, I created the article from what was previously a disambiguation page - awarded a barnstar for this work
• Emergency bleeding control - Combined articles on Direct Pressure, Pressure point (first aid) and Emergency tourniquet in to one place, and added additional information, including on internal bleeding
• Emergency care practitioner - Added this advanced paramedic qualification as a stub
• Emergency medical services in Germany - Created as a split of Ambulance
• Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom - UK specific ambulance site, involved closing other pages such as "List of UK Ambulance Services" for comprehensive encyclopaedic page
• ETHANE - The Emergency Service protocol
• FSCTE Manston - MOD Central Fire Training School
• Former UK Ambulance Services - Addresses changes created by ambulance service restructure
• Lustleigh - A Devon village close to my heart - where I got married!
• Operational Research CONsultancy - The targeting system used to measure the performance of UK ambulance trusts
• RAF Manston - Where I used to be an air cadet (created article from a redirect page)
• RAF Booker - Created with sketchy detail, so needs to expand
• Tail lift - Created as a stub, but hope to expand it. Obviously should have an article, but not a subject expert!
• Wycombe Air Park - The link between RAF Booker and British Airways flying club!

[edit] Pages I made major contribution to

• Aerial work platform - Overhauled this article, removing how-to and restructuring the article to improve readability dramatically. Also cut out a lot of duplication
• Airway management - Added detail and restructured article
• Ambulance - Made major edits to this (about 80% of the article written or re-written), in order to make it in to an excellent resource article. Included splitting out country specific information
• Artificial respiration - Major overhaul, including bringing in stubs from CPR Mask and Face shield
• Automated external defibrillator - Added detail and tidied the article up to separate more from Defibrillation
• AVPU - Added detail to this, making it no longer a stub (IMHO)
• Bandage - Restructured to make better base for expansion
• Battenburg markings - Overhauled this fairly new article, and uploaded images I created to illustrate
• Bleeding - Rewrote large sections of this article, and added sections on types of bleeding cause
• British Red Cross - Added entire history section. Started new sections for all the main UK activities
• British Association for Immediate Care - This article was on the verge of a speedy delete after creation, but I rescued it to be a good article start
• Caduceus - Major rewrite to this article to clear up ambiguity around usage (and overlap with rod of asclepius)
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Added a lot of info, restructured and added loads of references
• Choking - Major additions to this article. removal of lots of how to, and merged abdominal thrusts in
• Defibrillation - Instigated merge with Defibrillator, and managed merge of two articles together to create one much better article with the support of other regular editors
• Dressing (medical) - Structured article for expansion
• Emergency action principles - Was entirely POV and instruction guide focused, and also entirely based on medical emergencies. 100% rewrite to make more encyclopaedic and more general
• Emergency medical services - Tough challenge involving an almost total rewrite of a US focused article to reflect a global view
• Emergency service - This was a very patchy article containing a list added to randomly, and some sub sections which weren't strictly relevant here. Now structured in to core, secondary and civil emergency services
• Emergency vehicle equipment - Rearranged the structure to try and make this not only global, but add a technical edge
• Emergency vehicle lighting - Complete overhaul, rewrite and significant addition of extra information and citations.
• Fire - Restructured section on classifying fires
• Fire apparatus - Following heavy work on police car and ambulance, i overhauled fire apparatus. Clearly separated out types of apparatus to distinguish for the lay reader
• Fire prevention - Added table comparing European and US fire classfication systems
• First aid - Quite a stubby article, so added lots of info and Wikilinks
• Fox hunting - Very disjointed article with a lot of repetition and POV, tidied up and started adding much needed citations
• Kent International Airport - Airport on the site of RAF Manston (see above)
• Oropharyngeal airway - Overhaul on this article, including merging Guedal Pattern airway article in to it
• OPQRST - Restructured to make it more readable and moved first person voice. Good basis for more expansion here
• Police car - Was a dreadful article, all split by country twice! Wrote significant amount of text to bring global and generic perspective
• RHM - Added lots of company info while I worked there
• Rod of asclepius - Restructured this article to make it easier to read, and adding additional information to separate from Caduceus
• Scott Mills - Radio 1 DJ - restructured and turned it in to more encyclopaedic article
• Shire Horse - Major article overhaul, adding additional information and references

[edit] Pages I watch and edit

• Cardiac arrest
• Star of Life
• Bag valve mask
• Paramedic
• Medical emergency
• Emergency management
• Opqrst
• Natural disaster

[edit] My awards

Wow, I actually got a barnstar!

		The Barnstar of Life
		The barnstar of life is hereby awarded to Owain.davies for a particularly fine job of creating and editing the article emergency. The Transhumanist    20:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)