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What is a Paramedic?
Anthea Cayetano - 2015
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Why are you here?
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Anthea Cayetano Paramedic – E shift
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What do you already know? • Work or have worked for an ambulance service? • Know someone who works or has worked for an
ambulance service? • Had dealings with an ambulance service? Patient, known
someone who has been a patient? • Watched programs on TV
Where have you got your information about paramedics from?
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What do you think you will be doing? • Shift work • Driving • Risk assessments • Scene management • Working in a team – partners, other crews, emergency services,
hospital / medical staff • Patient assessment • Clinical treatment and interventions • Patient education and social work - often patient’s first contact
with the health care system • Responding to non-emergency cases
A highly trained health care professional providing ‘help’
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What attributes must you have?
• Calm
• Caring
• Professionalism
• Problem-solver
• Continued learning
• Reliability
• Fitness
• Good communicator
• Role-model
• Team-player
• Trustworthy
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Where do paramedics fit?
• In Australia paramedics are government employees (emergency and non-emergency) or privately employed (non-emergency only)
• State government’s responsibility to provide their own emergency response – 000 calls (SA Ambulance Service (SAAS), Ambulance Service New South Wales (ASNSW), Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS), Ambulance Victoria (AV), St John Ambulance Western Australia and NT, Ambulance Tasmania (AT))
• Professional recognition – currently not registered
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Roles within SAAS?
• Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
• Patient transfer service (PTS)
• Emergency support service (ESS)
• Paramedic
• Intensive care paramedic (ICP)
• Extended care paramedic (ECP)
• Special operations team (SOT)
• Area clinical team leader (ACTL)
• State duty manager (SDM)
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Different clinical levels of SAAS • Volunteers (Ambulance Officer (AO))
• Patient transport (AO)
• Emergency Support (AO)
• Emergency Paramedic (PARA)
• Intensive Care Paramedic (ICP)
• Extended Care Paramedic (ICP + ECP)
• Rescue Paramedic (ICP + SOT)
• Retrieval Team (MedSTAR and MedSTAR Kids)
• Operational Managers (ICP +)
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Different paramedic roles
• Normal ambulance
• SPRINT car
• Bicycle (BRU)
• Motorbike (MRU)
• Special operations - events
• Education – educational services
• Management – Paramedic Intern Team Leader (TL), Regional TL
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• Defined what a paramedic is • Discussed what paramedics do • Defined where paramedics fit in the health
care system • Provided an outline of roles and clinical levels
within SAAS and how paramedics fit in this Now to discuss the rest of the services provided and introduce you to placements for this year…
So far we have…
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Patrick Cayetano Bariatric Response Officer (BRO)
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Patient Transfer Service (PTS)
Patient Transport Service staff ensure the safe transport of patients from hospital to home, home to hospital, nursing home to nursing home – wherever they need to go to receive medical treatment or return afterwards.
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• Home to hospital and vice versa • Clinic appointments / OPD • X-ray / MRI / CT scan appointments • Inter-hospital transfers – rehab / preference • Nursing home transfers –
appointments/admissions/discharges • Retrieval team transfers • Regional transfers • Radiotherapy treatment appointments • Mental health transfers • Assist treatment / extrication • Priority 1’s
Types of PTS cases
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Crewing • Crews consist of two Cert IV internally trained Ambulance Officers operating
under their Cert IV protocols • Thirds Layout of Ambulance and Equipment • PTS ambulance differs from ESS and Emergency ambulance • Kits • Equipment • AED • Drugs
Patient Transfer Service
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PTS Ambulance Stations
Gepps Cross Edwardstown Fulham
Gepps Cross
Edwardstown
Fulham
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PTS Shift Configurations
• Mostly work during the week • mostly 8.5hr shifts, some 4hr shifts • Staggered shift times – 0700, 0730, 0800,
0830, 0900, 0930, 1000, 1100, 1530, 1630hrs
• Crib breaks are 30 mins – (Crib Anywhere) = Take your food with you, no guarantee you will return to station
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Emergency Support Service (ESS)
• ESS cases mainly Priority 5 Possible treatment required
• Ambulance Layout and Equipment identical to emergency vehicles
• Philips Heart Monitor, Kits and equipment and drugs (except schedule 8 drugs/Pain relief is Penthrane
• Crewing – 2x Cert IV internally trained AO’s working under their SAAS AO Protocols
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ESS Ambulance Stations Gepps Cross Fulham Edwardstown Port Adelaide McLaren Vale
Gepps Cross
Edwardstown
Fulham
Port Adelaide
McLaren Vale
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• ESS shifts are aligned to the emergency lateral roster with A, B, C and D shifts
• ESS works on a 4 on 4 off roster • 12hour shifts and two half hour meal breaks – Crib
anywhere • Shifts comprise of: DDDD, DDAA or DDNN • Shift times can start around the 0630-0700hrs • It’s a 24 hour roster to ensure ESS coverage throughout the
day or night, week or weekend
ESS Shift Configurations
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Regional Medical Transfer Service (RMTS)
• RMTS operates the same way that ESS does in the regional areas of SA. It acts as a general duties ambulance but instead of 2 x AO qualified cert IVs; crews consist of 1 x AO qualified and 1 x Paramedic for that added clinical versatility required in the regional areas.
• Locations are Wallaroo, Mt Barker and Victor Harbor
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Mental Health Escorts
• MoU August 2007 – SA Health, SAAS, SAPOL & RFDS
• SAPOL ceased inter-facility transfers
• How to transport patients who are at risk to self and others with best interest of patients
• SAAS MH Escort Team created
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Mental Health Escorts • Responsible for the safe inter-facility transportation of detained
Mental health patients by road or air
• Radio sign (Papa Sierra) PS76/196 & PS159
• Conducts risk assessment / Clinical assessment
• Suggesting if additional sedation is required
• Securing pts to stretcher (restraints or netting)
• MH escort remains with pt throughout transport with full crew and provides Handover to receiving facility
• Flights with RFDS
• Building rapport with patients – must have good verbal and non-verbal communication skills
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Bariatric Response Team (BR)
• Bariatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention and treatment of obesity
• Most commonly used method of defining levels of obesity is the Body Mass Index (BMI) – which is defined as your body mass in kilograms divided by the square of your height in metres
• If you have a BMI of 30 or over you are considered obese
• BMI of 40 and above is considered morbidly obese
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Limitations to using the BMI to estimate body fat: • BMI overestimates body fat in people with more lean body mass
(eg athletes) • BMI underestimates body fat on those with less lean body mass
(eg elderly)
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• Specialise in the transportation of bariatric patients • Specialised lifting equipment such as hovermatt and
hoverjack • Carry equipment to assist access/egress of patients • CAMEL lifter • Falls response • General ESS work • Conduct emergency and non-emergency work (P1-P8)
What does the bariatric team do?
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Bariatric Vehicle
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Bariatric Vehicle
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• Focus on the fundamentals!!! • Develop your skills in a non-urgent environment – take your time, practise makes perfect • Learn to obtain a thorough history and Past Medical History • Improve on verbal and non-verbal communication (Talk to your patients, hold their
hands, listen to them, give them empathy • Consolidate observations taking, pulse rate, respiratory rates, blood pressures, GCS • Learn different areas of Adelaide, hospital locations / nursing homes • Consolidate on manual handling skills • Learn medical terminology and acronyms • Write detailed and accurate Patient Report Forms (case cards) – it is a legal record of your
time with the patient so it does need to be detailed • Engage and be part of the crew • Radio procedures
As you can see, there are a lot of things to consider when being on the road so use this time wisely and absorb the different aspects of what being in an ambulance and working on an ambulance means don’t get overwhelmed but use your time wisely….
How can I get the most out of my placements?
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BREAK
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Andrew Noble Extended Care Paramedic (ECP)
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Mission
Management of patients in collaboration
with other health care professionals to safely
prevent avoidable ED presentations and
inpatient admissions.
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Pilot program
Joint venture between SA Ambulance
Southern Adelaide Health, Southern
Division of General Practice
Restricted to the southern suburbs
December 1st 2008 – July 31st 2009
12 team members
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Pilot team members
Senior Intensive Care Paramedics
Additional 5 weeks training
Placements with NPs, GPs, ACFs
12 team members
All 1123 cases were reviewed by a
multidisciplinary consultative committee
and found to be safe
50% ED avoidance
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Expansion
2008 – 12 pilot participants
2010 – 13 students
2011 – 8 students
2012 – 5 students
2013 – 10 students
2014 – 8 students
TOTAL 40 + 2 team leaders
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Recognition
Health Workforce Australia
Pt Lincoln 3 students
Limestone Coast 3 students
ACT 4 students
Tasmania 2 students
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2 Roles
Senior Paramedic Clinician
Based in the Emergency Operations Centre
Clinical advice
Paramedic consults
Upgrade/downgrade
Identify ECP work
Liason
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Clinical Pathways
General Medical
Mild allergies
Mild dyspnoea
Medication errors
IDC / SPC replacement
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Clinical Pathways
Infection
Upper respiratory + ENT
Lower respiratory
Cellulitis
Fungal infection
UTI
Sepsis*
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Clinical Pathways
Gastrointestinal
Nausea/Vomiting
Dehydration
Gastroenteritis
PEG tube replacement
Rectal prolapse
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Clinical Pathways
Head and CNS
Headache / Migraine
Peripheral vertigo
Epistaxis
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Clinical Pathways
Pain
Acute musculoskeletal
Chronic musculoskeletal
Toothache
Dislocations*
Ring removal
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Clinical Pathways
Wound care
Skin tears
Small lacerations
Chronic wounds
Bites
Burns
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Clinical Pathways
Palliative care
Symptom management / deterioration
Scene management / support
Pumps
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Medications
Antibiotics
Bronchodilators
Analgesics
NSAID
Steroids
Antiemetics
Antidiarrheal
Antihistamine
ADT
Others – Miconazole, Emla, Ural, Gastrolyte etc
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Equipment
i-STAT point of care blood testing
Venous gasses, electrolytes, kidney function, INR, Troponin
Blood/sputum/urine/faecal specimen collection
Wound swabs
Blood cultures
PEGs
IDC/SPCs
Sutures/staples/glue
Dressings
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Stats
Average ED avoid rate
ED avoid rate from RCFs
Priority 1 & 2 ED avoidances
Cases attended per year
70%
80%
20%
>8000
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Allergy Respiratory Vertigo Infection
Palliative
PEG
Gastro
Pain
Urology
Gen. Med.
Wound care
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Questions?
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