📢 New National Pre-Alert Guideline
RCEM and @AACE_org have released a new national guideline to standardise pre-alert calls between ambulance services and EDs. 📄 Full guideline available now: https://t.co/ULUt583vX2
✅ Updated criteria for pre-alerts
✅ Use of ATMIST format
✅ Concise communication
✅ Importance of training for all staff
This is about improving collaborative working to create safe patient handovers. Please share with your colleagues and teams!
All position and advisory statements: https://t.co/HnVJpYAwlA
Paramedics in neonatal retrieval?
Missed the International Critical Care Paramedic conference or caught your attention? Watch this video
I spoke alongside Amaury Hernandez from LifeFlight in Florida, discussing how our systems are utilising paramedics
https://t.co/bILVWnvWoK
@nqpcharlie NQP jobs come out cyclically in my local trust, so recruitment happens twice a year and coincides with university finish times. The jobs aren’t always advertised
Just a reminder that you can resuscitate a shock patient infinitely faster through an 18-gauge IV in their vein than a 14-gauge IV in the sharps container
Good luck to paramedic science students and staff at Keele University, who are taking part in a 24-hour CPR challenge to raise money for @MAA_Charity 💚
Read more ▶️ https://t.co/NhIIToCoO4
Couple of DMs re: my job role recently. In YAS we follow the @ParamedicsUK career framework. We have Specialist Paramedics in Critical Care, it takes 2 years of supervision, training and education to qualify, they respond to some of our more complex and highest acuity calls 1/2.
Just finishing an amazing week on placement on paediatrics, covering PICU, A&E and NICU too! Amazing learning from a variety of clinicians that has really increased my confidence in managing with this patient group. Even made me start to consider a future in paediatrics!
@TheLeeMcLaren@ThomasJPaddock So much of this profession isn’t on ‘the road’ anymore.
Learning the physiology and pharmacology from experts is crucial rather than just passive learning.
Yes learning in practice is great but it isn’t where all the learning occurs.
@TheLeeMcLaren I think a mix is best. I don’t think that learning just from hands on experience is the best way at all.
Learning in a lecture theatre, learning from experts in the field, advanced pathophysiology and anatomy with the balance of practice of clinical skills in clinical practice.
Christmas came early with the delivery of an @InfrascannerTBI from @Skillshop@ehaatClinical simulations will commence again next week with the incorporation of this #TBI tech 🧠
Really great HEMS awareness session at @MAA_Charity! Really great to hear about what patients benefit from an enhanced care team, and when to consider requesting HEMS! 🚁🚑
Our prehospital education sessions are free but if you want a CPD cert then we ask for a £5 donation.
Tonight’s session has raised almost £500 for our charity. These donations are vital at not just keeping the team running but also allowing us to run further sessions #Thanks