Three levels of paramedic at 118 Emergency Ambulance Service
Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 |
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Three years | One year | One year |
On the job and classroom | Rotate between 118 and hospital departments | On the job and classroom |
Anatomy and physiology | Intensive therapy unit | Prehospital trauma life support |
Basic life support skills | Coronary care unit | Prehospital cardiac life support |
Cannulation | Paediatric and neonatal ICU | Prehospital neurology |
Administration of drugs | Burns unit | Paediatric and neonatal emergency transport |
Basic life support | Haemodialysis unit | Urban and rural emergencies (including psychiatry and toxicology) |
Ambulance driving | Emergency department | Major incidents |
Medical first responder | Operating theatres | Search and rescue techniques |
Basic trauma life support | Survival skills | |
Basic cardiac life support | ||
Basic paediatric life support | ||
Basic neurology |