The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Patients may have waited anxiously for hours, so they’re highly observant for our first responses in words, facial expression and body language. Working as a paramedic, medic, EMT, prehospital care provider or any other type of first responder differs vastly from any other role in those first seconds or minutes of arrival.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 19, 2019

He is alert and oriented times three with normal vital signs by the time he arrives in the emergency department. Naloxone is the specific treatment for opioid overdoses and is becoming widely available to first responders of all sorts (Police, Fire, First Aiders, lay people and EMS). Paul’s Early Discharge Rule.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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. National Industry Insights: Ambulance and Paramedic. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 17 (4) 392-396. DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2005.00763.x

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BoostPrep

APRIL 26, 2022

Cyanosis and an increase in respiratory rate were noticed approximately five minutes before the nurse requested an ambulance. Transporting a 16-year-old patient that was an unrestrained driver in an MVA to the emergency department when he does not want to be evaluated. Any incident that requires two or more ambulances.

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ACEP Now

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s important that we focus quickly and intently on stabilizing these patients, especially in the out of hospital environment, so that we can safely get them to an emergency department.” Look at the loss of life and all the consequences.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

OCTOBER 31, 2020

First responders fondly recall those moments of adding value and feeling appreciated, too. Or getting an injured groom to the altar (albeit by stretcher) en route to the emergency department, to dropping a lonely pet somewhere safe after their human is hospitalised. Everyone wins.

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