WHAT'S NEW IN EMERGENCY PRE-HOSPITAL CARE RESEARCH? 2008 CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY 999 EMS RESEARCH FORUM IN COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD AND THE NATIONAL AMBULANCE RESEARCH STEERING GROUP
EMJ prize for Best Poster was awarded to Dr Linda DykesAngels with wings (and morphine): do RAF winchmen need to be paramedics?
North West Wales NHS Trust, Gwynedd, UK
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Royal Air Force (RAF) Search and Rescue (SAR) Sea King helicopters with winching capability enable casualties to be reached in locations inaccessible to other emergency services (e.g. cliffs, boats). RAF SAR exists primarily to rescue military personnel, but most jobs are civilian.
New winchmen undertake paramedic training during their first tour of duty. Hence, the proportion of HPC-registered paramedic-winchmen at each base temporarily falls when new winchmen arrive. We conducted a pilot study to estimate how many SAR jobs utilise paramedic skills at two contrasting SAR bases.
Method
We studied two SAR bases:
- RAF Valley, Anglesey: 4/5 paramedic winchmen in 2008
- RAF Wattisham, Suffolk: 1/4 paramedic winchmen in 2008
All jobs from 1/1/08 to 11/10/08 were identified retrospectively from RAF Patient Report Forms and job/flight logs. The authors decided whether "Paramedic skills would likely have been used if available" based
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