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The Use of Virtual Reality in Training Paramedics for a Mass Casualty Incident
Applied Sciences, 2022 This paper presents the design of a virtual reality learning module inspired by the exercises of healthcare professionals and its limitations as a result of action research carried out by the authors’ collective.
Alena Lochmannová +5 more
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Trained, ready but under-utilised: Using student paramedics during a pandemic
, 2020 The aim of this commentary is to outline a case for student paramedics as a potential solution to the operational resource issues ambulances services and other healthcare institutions are expected to experience during high demand situations, such as ...
Macquarrie, A, Whitfield, S, Boyle, M
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Risk of occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens in paramedics
Medycyna Pracy, 2018 Paramedics constitute a group of professionals who are constantly exposed to potentially infectious biological material through frequent and close contact with patients, possibly resulting in occupationally acquired infections.
Maria Gańczak, Katarzyna Topczewska
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Social Prestige of the Paramedic Profession [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Background: There is a lack of research on social image, prestige, and the position of the paramedic profession in the social structure. The main objective of the study was to determine the place of the paramedic profession in the hierarchy of prestige of professions as viewed by the public.
Anita Majchrowska +6 more
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Archives of Medical Science, 2023 Introduction Sleep disorders can develop as a result of exposure to stressors. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an additional source of stress for paramedics, due to the fear of the unknown nature of the new pathogen.
Kamil Piotr Marczewski +6 more
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Responding to a cardiac arrest: Keeping paramedics safe during the COVID-19 pandemic
, 2020 This commentary aims to provide an overview of the current state and territory ambulance service cardiac arrest management recommendations to paramedics during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight relevant risks to personnel.Full ...
Macquarrie, A, Whitfield, S, Boyle, M
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Violence against paramedics – when will it stop?
, 2016 Welcome to the first issue of the Australasian Journal of Paramedicine for 2016. We start this year’s first editorial with what is making headlines around Australia: acts of violence against paramedics.
Boyle, M, Wallis, J
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Estimating the emergency care workforce in South Africa
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2021 Background: Emergency care is viewed as a fundamental human right in South Africa’s constitution. In the public sector, all emergency medical services (EMS) come under the Directorate: Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine at the National ...
Ritika Tiwari +3 more
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London swoops on Australian paramedics
, 2015 It was the online commentary around this time last year titled ‘London’s calling our paramedics’ by Karen Keast that raised interest in different sections of Australia (1).
Boyle, M, Ross, L, Wallis, J
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Factors affects the performance of red crescent paramedics, Bisha, Saudi Arabia
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Context: Saving lives is the ultimate purpose of the Red Crescent paramedics. It is crucial to enable safe, effective, and efficient performance of paramedics globally. In Saudi Arabia, the Red Crescent faces at least over 280,000 cases every year. Aims:
Sultan A Alsaeed, Ahmed S Alkarani
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