About me This editor is an Experienced Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge. This user is an EMT, an emergency medical technician. 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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Main Interests

Particular interests in:

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

Wikipedia Contributions

Pages I Created

• A382 road - Road in Devon
• ABC (medical) - Created this page and ported information out of ABC (first aid), adding additional historical data - also major improvements to the citations and layout
• Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System - The system used in the UK and elsewhere to decide clinical priority for the dispatch of ambulances
• Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex
• Air source heat pump - major heating technology
• Airways Flying Club - Created in order to get rid of a red link!
• Alphred Duport - from research on Exeter Mayors
• Ambrosia (food) - Food brand i used to work on
• Angel Delight (album) - DAB from the food
• Arthur Kipps
• ASHICE - Ambulance service patient reporting protocol
• Atora - Food brand i used to work on
• Baux score - Medical scale for predicting severity of burns
• Becky Falls - local point of interest
• Bicton Arena - local equestrian venue
• Bicton Arena International 5* - major equestrian event
• Blood bike - emergency vehicle type
• Bowling for a pig - historic fete game
• Brian Kellett - DAB
• British Association for Immediate Care - UK emergency medical charity
• British Equestrian Federation - UK governing body for equestrian sport
• British Equestrian Trade Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
• British Equestrian Vaulting - member of the British Equestrian Federation
• British Horseball Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
• British Horse Driving Trials Association - member of British Equestrian Federation
• British Horse Industry Confederation - Overall umbrella body representing equestrian industry to government
• British Jumping Derby - Showjumping event at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
• British Showjumping Association - UK governing body for showjumping
• Burgess Hill Rugby Football Club - My former rugby club
• Caduceus as a symbol of medicine - Completed with content from Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius, specifically addressing the confusion between the two
• Caroline Pratt - 3 day eventer who tragically died competing at Burghley horse trials
• CHALET - The Emergency Service protocol
• County show - type of UK event
• Crocodiles of the World - UK crocodile zoo
• Defence Fire Training and Development Centre - former defence fire training at RAF Manston
• Dr Blackall's Drive - local point of interest
• Drowning chain - The causes of drowning
• Elektromotive - Created an article on an existing redirect page
• 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 Canada - split from Ambulance
• Emergency medical services in France - split from Ambulance
• Emergency medical services in Germany - Created as a split of Ambulance
• Emergency medical services in Norway - Split from 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
• Endurance GB - UK equestrian body
• Equine dentistry - major missing topic
• ETHANE - The Emergency Service protocol
• Exeter Arena - Created to close redlink out
• Exeter City Fire Brigade - created as daughter from Exeter Theatre Fire
• Exeter Theatre Royal fire - article about UK'd deadliest ever building fire
• Five freedoms - animal welfare article
• FSCTE Manston - MOD Central Fire Training School
• Former UK Ambulance Services - Addresses changes created by ambulance service restructure
• Francis Foster (comedian) - host of Triggernometry
• Gammon (meat) - mmmmmm, pork
• Gas safe register - The UK gas engineer approval scheme
• Geoff Billington - British show jumper
• Guy Williams (equestrian) - British equestrian
• HMS Express (1874) - close out redlink from Exeter Theatre Fire
• Hawkmoor Hospital - former sanatorium in Lustleigh
• Hawley Hospital - linked hospital to Hawkmoor
• Heavitree hospital - Exeter hospital
• Heavitree isolation hospital - Former Exeter hospital
• Honeylands - Former Exeter hospital
• Hundatorra - deserted medieval village on Dartmoor
• Hunter's Tor, Lustleigh Cleave - Tor on Lustleigh Cleave
• Independent Ambulance Association - trade association for ambulance providers in England
• Inset day - Was looking for information, and couldn't find it, so created it
• King Edward's Place - childrens' activity centre
• Knurr and spell - historic game that i heard about, so wrote an article!
• Kursaal (amusement park)
• Lewes Bonfire - Created article from redirect page
• List of foxhound packs of the United Kingdom - Following extensive work on Fox hunting
• List of South East Coast Ambulance Service stations - Created to move information clutter from main article
• Louise Skelton - British equestrian
• Lustleigh - A Devon village close to my heart
• Lustleigh Cleave - natural feature in Lustleigh
• Lustleigh May Day - village event
• Lustleigh Show - village event
• Marshwood Castle - to close out redlink from Lustleigh
• Metropolis Management and Building Acts Amendment Act 1878 - daughter article for Exeter Theatre Fire
• Metropolitan Building Act 1855 - daughter article for Exeter Theatre Fire
• Mounted Games Association of Great Britain - member of the British Equestrian Federation
• NHS ambulance services
• Newton Abbot power station - former Devon power station
• Newton Bushell Turnpike Trust - builders of the A382
• Operational Research CONsultancy - The targeting system used to measure the performance of UK ambulance trusts
• Oval Raceway - Local motor racing circuit
• Pain stimulus - Medical knowledge
• Paraveterinary workers in Australia
• Paraveterinary workers in Belgium
• Paraveterinary workers in Denmark
• Paraveterinary workers in France
• Paraveterinary workers in Ireland
• Paraveterinary workers in Italy
• Paraveterinary workers in Japan
• Paraveterinary workers in New Zealand
• Paraveterinary workers in Norway
• Paraveterinary workers in South Africa
• Paraveterinary workers in Sweden
• Paraveterinary workers in Switzerland
• Paraveterinary workers in Thailand
• Paraveterinary workers in Turkey
• Patient's Charter - NHS charter of service
• Piggy French - British eventing competitor
• Police vehicles in the United Kingdom - Created after work on Police car
• Police vehicles in Belgium
• Pre 2006 NHS ambulance services - Created after major changes to EMS in the UK when trust boundaries changed, created article to capture old structure
• Primley House - Created along with work on Paignton Zoo and Herbert Whitley
• Primley Sceptre - First UK crufts champion
• RAF Booker - Created with sketchy detail, so needs to expand
• RAF Chailey
• RAF Manston - Where I used to be an air cadet (created article from a redirect page)
• RAF Pocklington - Didn't have an article, and i thought it deserved one...
• Resuscitation Council (UK) - The UK governing body for resus protocols
• Richborough Energy Park - At Richborough Power Station near where I grew up
• Robert Pople - Exeter Mayor
• Robertson's - Food brand i used to work on, now discontinued
• Roger Beynim - Exeter Mayor
• Rowland Glave Saunders - Exeter Mayor
• Royal International Horse Show - equestrian show at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
• Sarah Wilkinson - former NHS chief exec
• Sheriff of Exeter - Exeter position
• South of England Show - Local agricultural show
• Spindles Farm - Detail on major animal cruelty case
• Stover Country Park - Local destination
• Sussex Police Air Operations Unit
• Sutreworde - deserted medieval village in Lustleigh
• Tail lift - Created as a stub, but hope to expand it. Obviously should have an article, but not a subject expert!
• Template:Caduceus confusion summary - A short article part intended to harmonise text between Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius and link on to main article
• The Great Bovine Pestilence - from work on Hundatorra
• The Horse Whisperer (book) - famous book without a page!
• The House That Moved - Exeter landmark and one of Europe's oldest buildings
• The Romany Rye (play) - daughter of Exeter Theatre Royal fire
• Thomas Blackall - Notable historic Devon person
• Triggernometry (podcast) - popular podcast
• Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom - sensible split/merge of vet, veterinary surgeon
• Veterinary medicine in the United States - fixing global problems with veterinarian
• West of England Eye Infirmary - former Exeter hospital
• Whipton Barton - former Exeter manor
• Whipton Hospital - Exeter hospital
• William Prouz - Historic Exeter figure
• William de Widworthy - historic Devon figure
• Wonford House Hospital - Exeter hospital
• Woolstore Theatre - small theatre in Wiltshire
• Wycombe Air Park - The link between RAF Booker and British Airways flying club!

Fox hunt articles

• Albrighton Hunt
• Albrighton Woodland Hunt
• Ashford Valley Hunt
• Atherstone Hunt
• Crawley and Horsham Hunt
• Old Surrey Burstow and West Kent Hunt
• Southdown and Eridge Hunt
• South Devon Hunt

Rugby articles

• Sussex Rugby Football Union
• Sussex Spitfire 1
• London 2 South East
• London 2 South West
• London 3 South East

Nav Templates I made

• Template:UKPower
• Template:UnderwaterDiving
• Template:Rugby Union in Sussex
• Template:British Equestrian Federation

Pages I made major contribution to (main or second contributor)

• 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
• All England Jumping Course at Hickstead - Restructure and split off daughter articles for two main shows
• Amateur Transplants - UK comedy band
• 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
• August Bank Holiday - about the day
• 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
• Bed rest - Merged with 'Bedrest' in to a single article, and added additional citations and tidy up
• Bleeding - Rewrote large sections of this article, and added sections on types of bleeding cause
• 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
• British Dressage - UK governing body for dressage
• British Eventing - UK governing body for eventing
• British Horse Society - Restructure
• British Red Cross - Created structure and major copy editing
• Buckland Beacon - Devon landmark
• C. J. Phipps - Theatre designer and cause of Exeter Theatre Royal fire
• 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
• Caroline Pratt - British equestrian
• Cecil Torr - noted Devon antiquarian
• Choking - Major additions to this article. removal of lots of how to, and merged abdominal thrusts in
• Colson's - Exeter department store
• County Ground Stadium - Former Exeter stadium
• 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
• Devon Air Ambulance - Asked to look at this by another EMS task force editor, added full inline citation and copy edited
• Dressing (medical) - Structured article for expansion
• Edward Whitley (politician) - father of Herbert Whitley
• Emergency
• 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.
• Eyre Massey Shaw first chief of London Fire Brigade
• 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
• First aid kit - Worked on article to try and make clear distinctions between types and bring some structure
• Fox hunting - Very disjointed article with a lot of repetition and POV, tidied up and started adding much needed citations
• Frances Helen Prideaux - pioneering female doctor
• Geoff Billington - British equestrian
• Glasgow coma scale - Copy editing and tabulating main features
• Herbert Whitley - founder of Paignton Zoo
• Horse teeth - Major overhaul
• Hugh Wood (landowner)
• John Blackaller - Devon historic figure
• Kelly Mine, Devon - mine in Lustleigh
• Kent Air Ambulance - Copy editing and best practice from other air ambulance articles
• Kent International Airport - Airport on the site of RAF Manston (see above)
• Lewes Bonfire - annual celebration
• Lifeguard - Complete rewrite of Lifeguard article as it was not a single coherent view, but a collection of statements which didn't really link to together, and contained a lot of WP:OR
• Man versus Horse Marathon
• Mayor of Exeter - converted from list to article
• Miles Thomas - former Morris motors managing director
• Monty Roberts - Significant improvements to article
• Moretonhampstead - Devon village
• NHS Digital - former UK NHS body
• Natural horsemanship - Complete rewrite of POV and OR article
• Nitrous oxide and oxygen - Complete rewrite and move away from focus on Entonox, which is a trade name. Added pictures (as gallery below).
• Nuffield Press - former Morris company
• 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
• Oxygen therapy - Complete rewrite and restructure of this article
• Paignton Zoo
• Police car - Was a dreadful article, all split by country twice! Wrote significant amount of text to bring global and generic perspective
• Police dog - Add much needed citations and some clean up
• Police van - merged with colloquial article 'paddywagon' and edits
• Prestcold - historic Morris company
• Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath - Sussex hospital
• RAF Membury - detail of what is now a motorway services
• RAF Pocklington - former RAF airbase
• RHM - Added lots of company info while I worked there
• River Bovey - Devon river
• River Teign - Devon river
• Rod of Asclepius - Restructured this article to make it easier to read, and adding additional information to separate from Caduceus
• Rollkur - a controversial technique in horse training
• Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital - Exeter hospital
• Scott Mills - Radio 1 DJ - restructured and turned it in to more encyclopaedic article
• Shire Horse - Major article overhaul, adding additional information and references
• Simon says - Article overhaul, split out DAB page (Simon says (disambiguation))
• Smelling salts - Changed stubby unreferenced article in to new structure with strong initial references
• Star of life - added major information to this article, including explanatory picture
• Stover Country Park - Devon attraction
• Them There - UK acting collective, converted from previous informal name
  • Simon Farnaby
  • Mathew Baynton
  • Martha Howe-Douglas
  • Jim Howick
  • Laurence Rickard
  • Ben Willbond
• Trailwalker - annual fundraising walk
• William Hurst (MP) - Exeter MP and mayor

Pages I watch and edit

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

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Images ported under Creative Commons from Flickr

Fair use images i've added

• File:Cd ireland.jpg
• File:Ilcor logo.gif
• File:Resuscouncil flash.gif
• File:RAF Manston.jpg
• File:Edfenergy logo.gif
• File:SPlogo.gif

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)

		The Medicine Barnstar
		For your hard work improving the quality of EMS and fire-related aritcles, I hereby award you this medicine barnstar. Thanks also for taking time to work with and provide guidance to new users while ensuring quality content. delldot talk 19:38, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

To-do list

• Simon says
• Knurr and Spell