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Michael McC retweeted
Tonight’s main takeaway: “Tier Two” rugby is fucking awesome, the South American teams are incredible, and rugby should be doing *everything* to support them, instead of kneecapping and ignoring these guys at every turn.
Michael McC retweeted
“Paramedics are like Lego”
@heli_med_james and @robfenwick from @TheResusRoom give a fantastic keynote on the adaptability of paramedics and their suitability for advanced practice roles all over the healthcare system.
#acpic23 @ACParamedicine
Michael McC retweeted
About the voice: In 1986 as part of my training, I was sent to a remote part of the far north west of Australia, to a town with a hospital, and then to a mission that was even more remote, where a senior medical student had prescribing rights. /2
Michael McC retweeted
The news is always like: "America has banned wheelchair ramps because they weren't in the Bible. Finland has made ice cream free."
Michael McC retweeted
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.
Michael McC retweeted
Something that changed for me a few years into being a paramedic was that I stopped thinking about Prehospital Services as
“better” or “worse”
based on what standard their best or worst clinicians performed to
But rather
How consistently was the intended std of care delivered ?
Michael McC retweeted
Anyone know where in Australia are our hyperbaric medicine units?
I know so far of:
Prince of Wales, RBWH, The Alfred, The Wesley (private), Royal Adelaide, Royal Hobart and HMAS Penguin but surely there are one or two more floating around the place?
Michael McC retweeted
1/2: When John Barilaro openly bragged about pork barrelling, the media didn’t publish his audio recordings as they “weren’t obtained with consent”.
When Brittany Higgins’ accused Bruce Lehrmann of sexual assault, the media published her texts, without her consent.
Michael McC retweeted
Are you a final year Australian paramedic student?
Researchers at @jcu are exploring paramedic students' confidence levels, attitudes, and perceptions when attending paediatric trauma patients.
đź”— Participate at bit.ly/ACP-ResearchBoard #ParaResearch @DaleGEdwards
Michael McC retweeted
#Paramedicine ≠#Ambulance
That may be where we started, but our profession is much more varied than that now.
It's time we stop defining our profession by what we do; instead let's focus on who we are and what makes us unique - it's more than just a shiny van.
PBA is the body that registers paramedics in Australia - let's have a look at a document they produced. It is clearly notes that paramedics can work throughout the health system and not solely JAS. We need to detach that ambulance define us. google.com/url?sa=t&source=w…
Michael McC retweeted
All #paramedics should read this thoughtful editorial about why research is important as well as putting. The case for paramedic research as a career path alongside clinical practice, leadership and management, and education.
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Michael McC retweeted
Add in Independent Paramedic Prescribing to maximise impact of APPs in community & invest in upstream senior clinical decision making in contact centres. These are the answers to today’s emergency ambulance service challenges - not more ambulances taking more people to ED.
Michael McC retweeted
AMBULANCE WORKERS.
Forget IV vs oral paracetamol.
Forget supraglottics vs ET tubes.
Who takes their epaulettes off their shirt before putting it in the wash?
& who leaves them on & washes them every time..?
If you leave them on you’re an absolute fruit loop. – at South West, England
57%Take them off (normal)
43%Leave them on (lunatic)
1,440 votes • Final results Michael McC retweeted
Heard on the Twittervine that Resus mannikins won’t take a size 3 iGel… I beg to differ my friends.
Michael McC retweeted
Um, if COVID-19 actually increased heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, etc., and if long COVID rates really are 10%, don't you think we'd see study after study showing this and news reports on health issues and labour shortages exactly like the ones we totally do see all the time?
Michael McC retweeted
Diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination to identify life & limb threatening injuries in trauma patients attended by @LDNairamb
sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/art…
Michael McC retweeted
Slip on a shirt
Slop on sunscreen
Slap on a hat
Seek shade
Slide on sunglasses
Slurp down sunscreen to protect your vital organs from the Australian sun
Michael McC retweeted
#Paramedicine needs to stop defining our #professional identity with two things:
1) "Scope of practice"
2) Jurisdictional ambulance services
Then we can start to better understand WHO we are, not what we do.
