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Clinical Updates: April 2025

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Your monthly clinical update covering:

VVED Consultations for small infants

  • New requirement: VVEDconsultation for non-transport of infants ≤28 days
  • Strong recommendation for 29days–3 months
  • Driven by patient safety reviewand expert consensus
  • Not about removing autonomy —it’s about adding clinical support

RSI Checklist Update

  • Addition of a pop-off valve checkfollowing a critical safety event
  • Prevents misdiagnosis of failedventilation
  • Reinforces value of checklists,even for experienced clinicians

Advanced Paramedic PracticeProposal

  • Public consultation open
  • Framework for advanced practiceregistration in primary care and critical care
  • Facilitates further advancementssuch as prescribing rights and scope self-determination
  • Big implications for AVparamedics — see link in show notes to respond

STEMI Transfer Pilot

  • ALS paramedics trialing regionalSTEMI transfers
  • Target: stable patientspost-thrombolysis
  • Reflects data showing most STEMIpatients are low risk

Patient Safety Focus

  • Standing height falls in theelderly: don’t underestimate risk
  • Rhythm misinterpretation:shockable rhythms missed or misidentified
  • No link between junior staff anderror rates — we all share responsibility, we are all vulnerable

Guideline Monitoring:Palliative Care CPG

  • 9.9% increase in patients dyingat home — great outcome
  • No major change in meds given —possibly due to barriers in the current CPG
  • Evidence supports simplifying CPG

Case Reports on Viva Engage

  • Recent cases: paediatricrespiratory failure, polypharmacy overdose, snake bite
  • Submit your own case via the Vivatemplate

Paper of the Month: PACKMaNTrial

  • RCT comparing ketamine vsmorphine for trauma pain
  • Found no difference ineffectiveness
  • Points to multimodal analgesia asa next step in research, which is already AV’s approach

Equipment

  • Check Pop-off Valve position atstart of shift
  • “Resus Ready” campaign comingsoon
  • Cardiac Monitor ReplacementProgram- New device coming
  • Discussion underway: do we needto carry everything all the time?

Professional DevelopmentOpportunities

  • Critical Care Summit – May 15–16,Essendon
  • Grand Rounds (CPG + RMH collab) –May 27, Sunshine Hub or virtual
  • Trauma Grand Rounds – June 18 atRoyal Children’s or online

Small steps to transform youpractice

  • Deliberate practice = highperformance, visualisation and mental rehearsal make a difference
  • Practice rhythm recognition
  • Rehearse SITREPs

Resources
Paramedic analgesia comparing ketamine and morphine in trauma (PACKMaN): a randomised,double-blind, phase 3 trial

Palliative paramedicine: An interrupted time series analysis of pre-hospital guideline efficacy

Proposal to regulate advanced practice paramedics

Rhythm recognition

Get in touch

X / Twitter / Bluesky

James: ⁠⁠⁠@JamesOz1⁠⁠ | @jamesoz1.bsky.social

Ben: ⁠@ben_meadley⁠

Linkedin

James

Ben

Producer: Liam Hennebry

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Your monthly clinical update covering:

VVED Consultations for small infants

  • New requirement: VVEDconsultation for non-transport of infants ≤28 days
  • Strong recommendation for 29days–3 months
  • Driven by patient safety reviewand expert consensus
  • Not about removing autonomy —it’s about adding clinical support

RSI Checklist Update

  • Addition of a pop-off valve checkfollowing a critical safety event
  • Prevents misdiagnosis of failedventilation
  • Reinforces value of checklists,even for experienced clinicians

Advanced Paramedic PracticeProposal

  • Public consultation open
  • Framework for advanced practiceregistration in primary care and critical care
  • Facilitates further advancementssuch as prescribing rights and scope self-determination
  • Big implications for AVparamedics — see link in show notes to respond

STEMI Transfer Pilot

  • ALS paramedics trialing regionalSTEMI transfers
  • Target: stable patientspost-thrombolysis
  • Reflects data showing most STEMIpatients are low risk

Patient Safety Focus

  • Standing height falls in theelderly: don’t underestimate risk
  • Rhythm misinterpretation:shockable rhythms missed or misidentified
  • No link between junior staff anderror rates — we all share responsibility, we are all vulnerable

Guideline Monitoring:Palliative Care CPG

  • 9.9% increase in patients dyingat home — great outcome
  • No major change in meds given —possibly due to barriers in the current CPG
  • Evidence supports simplifying CPG

Case Reports on Viva Engage

  • Recent cases: paediatricrespiratory failure, polypharmacy overdose, snake bite
  • Submit your own case via the Vivatemplate

Paper of the Month: PACKMaNTrial

  • RCT comparing ketamine vsmorphine for trauma pain
  • Found no difference ineffectiveness
  • Points to multimodal analgesia asa next step in research, which is already AV’s approach

Equipment

  • Check Pop-off Valve position atstart of shift
  • “Resus Ready” campaign comingsoon
  • Cardiac Monitor ReplacementProgram- New device coming
  • Discussion underway: do we needto carry everything all the time?

Professional DevelopmentOpportunities

  • Critical Care Summit – May 15–16,Essendon
  • Grand Rounds (CPG + RMH collab) –May 27, Sunshine Hub or virtual
  • Trauma Grand Rounds – June 18 atRoyal Children’s or online

Small steps to transform youpractice

  • Deliberate practice = highperformance, visualisation and mental rehearsal make a difference
  • Practice rhythm recognition
  • Rehearse SITREPs

Resources
Paramedic analgesia comparing ketamine and morphine in trauma (PACKMaN): a randomised,double-blind, phase 3 trial

Palliative paramedicine: An interrupted time series analysis of pre-hospital guideline efficacy

Proposal to regulate advanced practice paramedics

Rhythm recognition

Get in touch

X / Twitter / Bluesky

James: ⁠⁠⁠@JamesOz1⁠⁠ | @jamesoz1.bsky.social

Ben: ⁠@ben_meadley⁠

Linkedin

James

Ben

Producer: Liam Hennebry

  continue reading

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