Melissa Fields

🇦🇺 Registered Paramedic | 🇨🇦 Advanced Care Paramedic | Views are my own ☕️ | Thoughts from my armchair 🛋| Primary Health Care | Educator | Learner 💬

[David Anderson @expensivecare]

Fascinating, and great job by all - 2 large trials that answer an important question.

Glad that we reserved a decision on a broader rollout of IO in our service (from just CCPs to all paramedics) while awaiting the results of PARAMEDIC3.

#researchmatters

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

@em_bulance What a hike! 😍🏔️

[ParamedProf is at paramedprof.bsky.social @ParamedProf]

@yourAMSA @BillLord2 @DuncanMcConnel1 @DrDavidNLong @DrLouReynolds @alan_eade The Australasian Council of Paramedicine Deans has released a position paper on 'placement poverty' regarding students undertaking work-integrated learning. The Paramedic Observer strongly supports this position. #paramedicine #WIL #placementpoverty
https://t.co/W9cKGfHRuO

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

@em_bulance You had the courage to try. It’s ok that it didn’t work out the way you had hoped or planned. Always put yourself first and do what suits your needs and your personal values.
Never feel like you have to explain yourself to anyone! ✌️
It’s an adventure chapter in your life story📚

[Mat @Mat_J_B]

Paramedics of all settings, I implore you, if you were sending a patient to ED please do not tell them they *will* receive an investigation/treatment or be seen by X specialist. I encounter this often and it can lead to conflict. I suspect same is true for referring back to GP.

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

@em_bulance You have to do what makes you happy. A wonderful life experience in the end - live it up! Your paramedic career is still there for you when you get back, with a whole new set of stories and experiences to share.
#seeksunshineandcitylights

[David N Long @DrDavidNLong]

Remember when CPGs were gospel and we never (really) questioned them? Well, this article by @BFlanagan73 and colleagues reminds us again, just how important it is to appraise the evidence. Fascinating read 👀👇
https://t.co/3LOI3N5T78

[Australasian College of Paramedicine (ACP) @ACParamedicine]

🇨🇦 Canada's @Medavie is recruiting!

Final year paramedic students, graduate paramedics and experienced paramedics, complete your pre-screening today & then attend:

📍 Feb 26 - 27 (Brisbane)
📍 Feb 28 (Melbourne)
📍 Feb 29 - Mar 1 (Sydney)

🔗 https://t.co/JuyRyWn3rH #ParaJobs

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

@em_bulance This seems like a positive change!

[Dr Aidan Baron @Aidan_Baron]

3/
The behaviour of individuals under pressure in this instance did not need better protocols

What was needed was for paramedics to operate within a community of practice where ethical decision making and patient advocacy were a cornerstone of professional culture

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

@em_bulance It’s honest, and honesty is so valuable. Thank you for sharing your experiences, even more so since it hasn’t been all roses.
And giving something new a go, is never an embarrassment - it is only ever brave.

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

@em_bulance 😞

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

“I’m glad I’m here, even though this is stressful and frightening... I’m glad I’m here because there is an opportunity to do good. Because I am as much the right person as anybody else, & I will deploy my skills as best I can” https://t.co/UNjuugyVI2 #overcome

[Melissa Fields @melfields6]

@em_bulance Totally feel you @em_bulance
Try to just focus on the experience of exploring Canada, and how this has expanded your world view in your paramedic practice ❤️

[Australasian College of Paramedicine (ACP) @ACParamedicine]

.@QldAmbulance is partnering with @usceduau to empower paramedics to design, develop and disseminate research.

Join us for a FREE research day on November 29.

Participate in workshops on how to engage with and conduct research as a registered paramedic.

https://t.co/9PZpxosVhA

[TheResusRoom @TheResusRoom]

So it’s time to start planning, researching and prepping our next online course!

We’ve wanted to cover ECGs for a long time. Let us know if you think this is a good choice for 2024, or even suggestions for a different topic…

[Dr Aidan Baron @Aidan_Baron]

Nothing I love more than an
Unexpected finding that changes my thinking

Smaller adult BVM bags associated with worse outcomes in OHCA in this retrospective analysis

Great work @bonniedsnyder

https://t.co/JUd7yuwjWu

[ParamedProf is at paramedprof.bsky.social @ParamedProf]

Why this ‘invisible’ profession wants to step up in the healthcare system #health #paramedicine https://t.co/lcZxjgEGXz

[Dr Aidan Baron @Aidan_Baron]

This was one of the best articles I’ve read in a while

It has deeply impacted and changed how I see my role in providing emergency mental healthcare.

I encourage you, my friends, to read it too.

Thank you @drrachelgibbons

https://t.co/mAIZTchy4F

[Cliff Reid @cliffreid]

When NOT to stop resuscitation

Sometimes we stop too early. Sometimes we go on too long. How do we pick the ones we should go the extra mile on? This 6 min excerpt from a talk really comes from the heart

This is the concept that drives everything I do

https://t.co/KLORJX52Ig