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Paramedics Australasia places a focus on forward-looking aspects in the delivery of pre hospital medicine and the facilitation of the paramedic’s health care role. Paramedics Australasia’s vision is for prehospital medicine to be integrated with other health services so as to create a seamless system of care beginning at the point of need – the patient. The paramedic practitioners and pre hospital medicine systems of the future thus should assure a rapid response providing appropriate levels of care to each patient presentation, thereby contributing a vital community resource for prevention, evaluation, care, triage, referral and advice. Access to paramedic services should form an integral part of the care regime available to patients in an inter-professional model of healthcare practice founded on contributions from a dynamic mixture of professional staff at all stages of the patient journey.
Paramedics Australasia (PA) is the national body representing paramedics engaged in delivery of pre hospital emergency health care. PA is thus uniquely positioned to provide insights into the role of pre hospital medicine in the continuum of care. Every day in Australia, patients are placed at risk of harm within the healthcare system. These risks are particularly notable in pre hospital care where paramedics must often tend for patients under adverse operating conditions and perform interventions that carry significant risks. Paramedics must make clinical judgements that may profoundly affect patient outcomes – often with no access to patient history. Pre hospital medicine has changed dramatically in recent years. Paramedic practice has evolved as a unique discipline combining medicine, public health and public safety. Contemporary prehospital medical care is now provided by professionally qualified practitioners. These developments have been built on a strong evidence base demonstrating the capacity to enhance patient outcomes through appropriate clinical interventions. Paramedics and prehospital service providers alike have had to overcome many challenges in this journey, not the least being the education, recruitment and retention of a professional workforce and the difficulties in funding the infrastructure upon which to build a comprehensive emergency response capability.
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