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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Those drawn towards more mobile, emergent, autonomous roles found their place in paramedicine. National industry insight reporting from the Australian Industry and Skills Committee suggests that, in 2019 alone, Australia wide, there were over 4,500 enrolments in ambulance and paramedic qualifications1.
My Paramedic Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2015
I now understand why when I first tried getting into the ambulance service, many medics warned me to get out while I can, telling me only crazy people enter the ambulance service. I haven’t posted in this blog for a long time and yet I am getting more traffic than ever before. This is my last blog post.
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Paramedic Training Spot
DECEMBER 8, 2021
During this training period, the combat medics received 300 hours of clinical-care experience in conjunction with 300 hours of ambulance experience; this training time also exposed the combat medics to a greater variety of medical scenarios than those experienced in the combat medic’s average day.
High Performance EMS
JULY 13, 2020
The NHTSA Office of EMS released a significant document last year called the EMS Agenda 2050 that was carefully crafted to set a bold vision for the next 30 years of paramedicine by clearly differentiating the focus of care from its original definition in the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future.
NAEMSP
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Article by Karlee De Monnin CASE During my first ambulance ride-along as a fourth-year medical student on an EMS elective, my unit responded to a call for abdominal pain. The paramedics assisted the patient into the ambulance. I was focused on exploring the truck as it was my first time transporting a patient in an ambulance.
My Paramedic Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
I can feel the hunger for paramedicine again, the drive to learn, to push myself towards the goals I set back in 2009. I prayed the ambulance would go faster. I remembered his words in the back of the ambulance to me, “All I wanted was to get home to my family.” His face was so pale when we arrived at the hospital.
Peter Canning
DECEMBER 26, 2023
One of the reasons I declined was because I wrote a blog about being a paramedic that included descriptions of calls where things didn’t go as they do on TV (or as the public might expect). The ambulance responded. The ambulance broke down in the driveway. Don’t hold the paramedics at fault just because the ambulance broke down.
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