Dr Scott Stewart
@drscottstewart.bsky.social
Australian Paramedic Academic. PhD, Registered Paramedic, educator, researcher, Fellow of the Australasian College of Paramedicine. I am evidence based until I have to interpolate.
Aphra registered Paramedics teaching into an Australian paramedic degree. We are investigating your preparedness to teach Evidence Based Practice. 15 min online survey. For more information contact Dr Scott Stewart scott.stewart@acu.edu.au or phone 03 5336 5489 acu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The Australasian College of Paramedicine has launched the Australasian Clinical Practice Framework for Paramedicine - a landmark resource that establishes clear, consistent expectations for paramedic practice at every stage of a clinician's career. paramedics.org/news/austral...
Australasian Clinical Practice Framework Paramedicine V1 Launch
ACP is the leading professional body offering knowledge, events, a community and more, to our members and all who work in the paramedicine field in Australia and New Zealand.
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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.
Matt Wilkinson Stokes discusses paramedic placement poverty
YouTube video by Australasian College of Paramedicine
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Resuscitative thoracostamies need to be prehospital if you are going to do then at all. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Paramedics in GP practices reduce load on GP but some fine-tuning needed. bjgp.org/content/75/7...
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...
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Victoria passed legislation to enable Masters level Paramedics to prescribe medication. www.premier.vic.gov.au/australias-f...
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...
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Respect for volunteers in experiments. Fascinating look back to the 1950s. One hopes they got informed consent. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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...
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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...
The Australasian College of Paramedicine
ACP is the leading professional body offering knowledge, events, a community and more, to our members and all who work in the paramedicine field in Australia and New Zealand.
paramedics.org
The Northern Territory is a very challenging place to deliver paramedical services. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
'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...
abc.net.au
UK based Online Critical Care Symposium. Great to see Callum Sutton and Ben Meadley presenting collegeofparamedics.co.uk/COP/Events/E...
Display event - International Critical Care Symposium 2025
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The Irish Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council has released their Research Strategy. www.phecit.ie/PHECC/Resear...
Research
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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
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
Paramedics in Primary Care - toolkit | Toolkit to provide information to patients and members of the public, general practitioners and primary care teams
paramedicsinprimarycare.info
This human factors paper is for anesthetists be applied to paramedicine. associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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 ...
associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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.
