what a shocking news topic to hear, rob was not only a friends, ( who could forget those dazzling teeth on his webcam) but someone who enhanced my career and life. A truly sad day, the world has lost one of the good guys, RIP dude, Andy
Hi Guys,
Thanks for your prompt replies - much appreciated.
In answer to Docharris, yes we have an emergency care practitioner scheme here that mainly look after more medical assessment rather than trauma stuff. We also have in our area a critical care program, the advanced care is more of a stepping stone between regular paramedic and critical care. Most of our critical care medics are based on helicopters - the advanced guys would be car based and located in order to be used as a rapid response team used to provide moere advanced interventions to assist the patient. Being car based the car would run 24/7 whereas the chopper guys only fly daylight hours. This is a new concept to the UK and we have been working on this for a while now - we have funding and all the right people "on board" - so we are now working out the educational protocols and then we should be ready for a pilot scheme.
As far as current scopes of practice go -
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycare/prehospitalcare/jrcalcstakeholderwebsite/guidelines
the above is a link to our guidelines as emt-p.
Ian - or anyone else - here is my email addy - andymascall@hotmail.com
Thanks again,
Andy
Hi Guys,
I am currently spending 28 hours a day working on a pilot project for an advanced care paramedic scheme here in the UK. If successful this project will be rolled out across the whole of the UK.
I am at the stage now where we are developing the educational side of the scheme and wondered if anyone had any links or advice, info etc that they could let me have to assist me in this venture.
The main topics we are looking at currently ;
Intra nasal diamorphine for paediatrics.
Trans cutaneous pacing
Adenosine use for SVT
CPAP
this list is not exhaustive - so any advanced stuff would be great.
I know some of you guys do cpap, pacing and adenosine as a regular paramedic - but this is something we do not do here.
Regards
Andy
Happy Birthday Terri - I know it is a day or 2 early - but I wanted to be the first to start it this year - lmao
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Andy xx
Well I wish gas was that cheap here - we are paying over $12 a gallon here and it goes up every week without fail - excuse me - I just want to check the pressure on my bicycle tyres.........................
We routinely have BLS doing 12 leads here, and interpreting if they feel able - it also gives them guidance as to whether they call for paramedic backup or not - we thrombolyse pre hospital also.
So I think a positive YES - where indicated - any grade should be doing 12 leads
Andy
Only a brave man bashes Terri - and anyway she is so disgustingly clinical..................lol
And just to add a little - if you want to bash her - you need to go through me ....................
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