Dr Scott Stewart

YouTube video by Australasian College of Paramedicine Matt Wilkinson Stokes discusses paramedic placement poverty

Placement poverty is real and affects paramedic students. That is why they need to be included in the new Commonwealth Prac Payment initiative, like other critical workers like nurses, midwifes and teachers.

1) A lot of these patients will die no matter what anyone does.
2) Care is best done with staff empowered to vary the guidelines when circumstances dictate.

Resuscitative thoracostamies need to be prehospital if you are going to do then at all. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Paramedic or GP consultations in primary care: prospective study comparing costs and outcomes Background General practice faces pressures because of increased demand and a shortage of GPs. Paramedics in general practice (PGPs) increasingly contribute to managing minor illnesses, conducting hom...

Paramedics in GP practices reduce load on GP but some fine-tuning needed.
bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Australia’s First Paramedic Practitioner Laws Pass Parliament Legislation to enshrine Australia’s first Paramedic Practitioner into law has now passed the Victorian Parliament, paving the way for them to deliver urgent care and prescribe medicines while saving V...

Victoria passed legislation to enable Masters level Paramedics to prescribe medication.
www.premier.vic.gov.au/australias-f...

Medical experiments where lifesavers volunteered to have breathing stopped In the 1960s, doctors wanted to improve CPR techniques so they enlisted the help of surf lifesavers who agreed to be anaesthetised on the floor of a hospital operating theatre to simulate what might h...

Respect for volunteers in experiments. Fascinating look back to the 1950s. One hopes they got informed consent. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Yes please

From OED
1951 Para-medics from air-sea rescue squadrons..were in the search planes.
Sunday Mirror (New York) 8 April 3Citation details for Sunday Mirror (New York)
1964 was the first reference to paramedic without the hyphen.

The initial reference to paramedics were medics that were parachuted into a scene in the 1960s

It is the season for a Santa hat! 🎅

Paramedicine in 2080. Now there is a crystal ball session worthy of a conference.

Dates have been released for one of best Paramedic Conferences in the world. Australasian College of Paramedicine International Conference (ACPIC) is in Brisbane 10-12 September 2025.
paramedics.org/events/ACPIC...

Evidence Based graffiti.

Absolutely paramedicine has evolved much faster now we have broken down the silos between services and nations. It is a function having a bigger critical mass.

'Unacceptably high level of risk': NT ambulance contract in doubt after damning report A leaked review into St John Ambulance NT has revealed "serious" concerns about clinical governance within the private service, finding some processes may have led to patient deaths and "significant r...

The Northern Territory is a very challenging place to deliver paramedical services.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

@capsutton.bsky.social

UK based Online Critical Care Symposium. Great to see Callum Sutton and Ben Meadley presenting
collegeofparamedics.co.uk/COP/Events/E...

The Irish Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council has released their Research Strategy.
www.phecit.ie/PHECC/Resear...

I feel like I shouldn't have to keep saying this, but it astonishes me that it keeps happening:

If your patient has a very obvious, painful, traumatic injury, give them analgesia. Give them proper doses & give it early.

Yes, even if they aren't screaming.

Don't let people suffer quietly.

#MedSky

Add me please

A terminal patient contemplates Rembrandt paintings at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, one final time. March 2015.
Photo credit: St. Ambulance Wens.

For Australian (or other) Paramedics wondering what it would look like, here is the UK experience of Paramedics in Primary Care clinics. Lead by PhD Paramedic Dr Georgette Eaton @georgette-eaton.bsky.social

paramedicsinprimarycare.info

@georgette-eaton.bsky.social

Implementing human factors in anaesthesia: guidance for clinicians, departments and hospitals Human factors is an evidence-based scientific discipline used in safety critical industries to improve safety and worker well-being. The implementation of human factors strategies in anaesthesia has ...

This human factors paper is for anesthetists be applied to paramedicine. associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Actualy RFK JR, not using JFK Jr without an Ouija board.

Dr Oz to head USA's Medicare system. Add this to JFK Jr as health secretary and welcome to a four year experiment that would never get through an ethics committee. So glad the rest of world is in the control arm.

It is called "pay and display"