By Christopher Knaus; May 12, 2012 From: The Canberra Times Far away from screaming sirens, the blood and the raw trauma that ACT paramedics are called to every day, sit a group of office-bound ambulance officers who balance life and death using a mouse and keyboard. The nerve centre of the ACT Ambulance Service sits [...]
Alex White; May 12, 2012 5:04PM From: Sunday Herald Sun WHEN the car Peter Connell was driving veered off a rural road and plunged eight metres he should have died; instead he was the first person to be rescued by Air Ambulance Victoria. It has been 50 years since that maiden voyage and the 74-year-old [...]
From: Campus Daily Three Brisbane paramedic students have been to China to experience overseas emergency care as part of a new project given the green light at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Third year students Laura Kirby and Andrew Fordyce, and second year student Bec Andrews were part of a successful pilot project last December, [...]
Two Emergency Health honours students are contributing to increasing paramedic’s body of knowledge through research projects supported by St John Ambulance. Christian Winship and Jason Tosch, both first year Honours students in the Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic) degree, were awarded $5000 each from the inaugural St John Ambulance Australia Research Honours Scholarship to assist [...]
Political Reporter Daniel Wills; May 08, 2012 11:00PM From: AdelaideNow PARAMEDICS are threatening a repeat of yesterday’s industrial action if ambulances are again forced to queue outside Flinders Medical Centre. Health Minister John Hill has ordered an independent investigation into delays at the FMC emergency department after reports that it took 40 minutes to admit [...]
Erin Michael; May 08, 2012 8:21AM From: Herald Sun
Robyn Ironside; May 08, 2012 10:48AM From: The Courier-Mail PARAMEDICS will be permanently based in a new emergency helicopter hangar in Brisbane to cut down on response times. Police and Emergency Services Minister Jack Dempsey will open the new $1.6 million hangar at Archerfield on Tuesday, which includes accommodation. A spokesman for the minister said [...]
By Karen Keast | Date Updated: 07-05-2012 From: Nursing Careers Allied Health Victorian ambulance workers have been left reeling after an increase in the number of paramedics committing suicide, with eight paramedics in the past three years taking their own lives. Ambulance Employees Association Victoria general secretary Steve McGhie said the number of paramedics committing [...]
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:28 GMT, 27 April 2012 | UPDATED: 19:51 GMT, 27 April 2012 From: Daily Mail Online A paramedic who boasted on Facebook that he groped a patient’s breasts was found guilty of misconduct yesterday. Following an emergency call-out to a young woman, Mark Small posted: ‘Saved someone’s life and managed [...]
30 April 2012 People living in rural Victoria are two and a half times more likely to survive cardiac arrest than five years ago. Ambulance Victoria is a world leader in improving outcomes for patients who suffer a form of cardiac arrest that allows the heart to be ‘shocked’ back into rhythm by a defibrillator. [...]
Jill Stark; April 29, 2012 From: The Age AMBULANCE paramedics are demanding a 30 per cent pay increase, better overtime rates and more support for those injured, psychologically traumatised or bullied on the job. The log of claims obtained by The Sunday Age and delivered to Ambulance Victoria on Thursday seeks to address ”rock bottom [...]
Ambulance Victoria will not tolerate aggression or abuse towards paramedics from patients, families or bystanders. CEO Greg Sassella said 12 charges had been laid relating to hindering, obstructing and assaulting paramedics in the past two years. ‘Violence, threats and abuse towards paramedics aren’t acceptable and we will continue to push for those responsible to face [...]
By Lisa Mosley Posted April 27, 2012 16:52:28 The Northern Territory Government will deploy an additional ambulance crew to Palmerston in an attempt to relieve the high demand for paramedic services at immigration detention centres. The AMA says lives are at risk because demand for ambulance services in the Darwin region has doubled because of [...]
Updated April 26, 2012 12:01:38 From: ABC Online The Northern Territory is seeking more ambulance resources from the Commonwealth to ease pressure on Darwin paramedics struggling to cope with call-outs to the city’s new immigration detention centre. The Wickham Point facility, 35 kilometres from the city, opened in January and houses almost 800 asylum seekers. [...]
Updated April 25, 2012 08:44:24 From: ABC Online The president of a Gold Coast RSL club says community members will be honoured at Anzac Day services today. The Currumbin RSL hosts one of the city’s biggest dawn services. Ron Workman says members of a field ambulance who served in Vietnam will take part in the [...]
