{"title":"Are the Results of Hospital Based Studies Generalisable to the Pre-Hospital Setting?","authors":"M. Ferri, T. Jefferson, A. De Luca","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.3.284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.3.284","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial looks at the potential of hospitals studies being relevant to the prehospital setting","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Health and Mental Illness in Paramedic Practice: A Warrant for Research and Inquiry into Accounts of Paramedic Clinical Judgment and Decision-Making","authors":"R. Shaban","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.3.285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.3.285","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is the first in a series that heralds a study examining paramedic accounts and constructs of judgment and decision-making (JDM) of mental health and mental illness. Providing an introduction and background to the evolving study, the paper will establish a warrant for the research and scope of the research agenda and methods of inquiry.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest and the Possible Aetiological Role of Antipsychotic Medications – a Case Study","authors":"K. Robinson","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.3.288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.3.288","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Emergencies in the pre-hospital setting involving asphyxial cardiac arrest due to choking, whether by aspiration or foreign body are encountered rarely. Such an event is more likely to occur in paediatrics, especially six months to four years of age. [1,2] Adults at risk of asphyxia are typically persons who are unable to protect their airway for example, persons suffering from psychosis, neurological conditions and disability.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Implementation of Case-Based Learning - Shaping the Pedagogy in Ambulance Education","authors":"B. Williams","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.3.286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.3.286","url":null,"abstract":"The clinical units in the second and third years of the BEH-P are taught using the casebased learning (CBL) paradigm. This paper (the first in a series) will describe the background theory of CBL and discuss the implementation of a CBL paradigm in the BEH-P degree. A background of problem-based learning (PBL) will also be addressed, since it is considered the educational ‘grandfather’ of this type of instructional ideology, with CBL is one such pedagogical hybrid.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncertainty, Error and Risk in Human Clinical Judgment: Introductory Theoretical Frameworks in Paramedic Practice","authors":"R. Shaban, Claire M. Wyatt Smith, J. Cumming","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.1.263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.1.263","url":null,"abstract":"Paramedic judgment and decision-making, not unlike much of ambulance practice, have not been the subject of systematic, sustained research. There exists a paucity of research or inquiry that examines the mechanics of human error in paramedic practice, ambulance or pre-hospital settings. Little is known of how paramedics make judgments and decisions, and how paramedics deal with risk and uncertainty they commonly face in their tasks and the environment in which they work in. The literature and theories on judgment and decisionmaking are as extensive as they are controversial and the scientific community is yet to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the risk and uncertainty in judgment and decisionmaking. The following paper provides an introduction to the concepts of error, risk, and uncertainty in the context of paramedic judgment and decision-making, discussion of two analytic frameworks that examine such error, risk, and uncertainty, and commentary on their application to the paramedic setting.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Paramedic Field Care: A Complaint-Based Approach","authors":"R. Shaban","doi":"10.33151/AJP.2.3.295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/AJP.2.3.295","url":null,"abstract":"This text, published by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), was written with the goal of preparing paramedic students for the realities of the prehospital setting. A culmination of years of work with over 75 contributors including paramedics, educators, emergency physicians, EMS administrators, nurses, and allied health professionals—many of who are internationally renowned—the text provides a comprehensive authoritative text for the novice paramedic student or practitioner. Structured in classic textbook style, the text consists of 58 chapters spread across 7 key-themed section areas. A key claim of this text is its unique presentation, referred to as ‘contextual learning’, that focuses on teaching patient care and treatment by using chief complaint, just as the patient actually presents.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Prehospital Practitioner and the Laryngeal Mask Airway: “Are you Keeping Up?”","authors":"Cindy Hein","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.1.248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.1.248","url":null,"abstract":"The laryngeal mask airway (LMA) has gained recognition as an acceptable device for securing the airway of patients during anaesthesia and emergency airway management within the hospital environment. Furthermore, the LMA has been utilised by paramedics in the prehospital setting when endotracheal intubation is either unavailable (untrained personnel) or impossible (failed intubation). Numerous articles have been published debating different techniques of its use and modifications from its original inception. This paper offers a recent review of those articles and presents a balance for the reader to consume. A brief history of the LMA is given, as well as discussion on selection of size, use of a bite block, cuff pressures, the disposable LMA, the intubating LMA, the ProSeal LMA and using cricoid pressure with the LMA insitu.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erin C. Smith, S. McDonald, J. Wasiak, P. Jennings, Chris MacPherson, F. Archer
{"title":"The Development of a Prehospital Search Filter for the Cochrane Library","authors":"Erin C. Smith, S. McDonald, J. Wasiak, P. Jennings, Chris MacPherson, F. Archer","doi":"10.33151/ajp.2.1.251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.2.1.251","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the development of a prehospital search filter. The scope of the filter is deliberately broad and many of the studies retrieved may not be relevant to the prehospital environment. However, the filter has been designed to identify reports of trials contained in The Cochrane Library with the purpose of assembling a register of prehospital trials","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7th World Congress of Bioethics, 9th-12th November 2004, Sydney, Australia","authors":"A. Morgans","doi":"10.33151/AJP.2.3.290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/AJP.2.3.290","url":null,"abstract":"The conference was a large four day event, preceded by the 5th Congress of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. The conference was centred on the theme of bridging the divide between local and global ethics.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2004 Qual-IT: The way forward; Qualitative research in IT & IT in qualitative research","authors":"A. Morgans","doi":"10.33151/AJP.2.3.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33151/AJP.2.3.291","url":null,"abstract":"The conference topic areas encompassed methodological issues in data collection and analysis, human computer interaction and socio-technical issues. The conference was well attended, with approximately 100 delegates who attended from all areas of Australia and New Zealand and a couple of international visitors as well.","PeriodicalId":55865,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Paramedicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69510949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}