Laura Wirth
@LauraCWirth
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Paramedic | Manager | Australasian College of Paramedics Committee Member | Staff Excellence Award Finalist
Melbourne
Joined April 2009
Australian women having a cardiac arrest are less likely to: 🩷 Have the arrest recognised in the 000 call, 🩷 Receive bystander CPR and an AED shock, 🩷 Receive ALS interventions and post-resuscitation care, 🩷 Survive to hospital discharge. @ARC_resus @aus_roc
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‘Stop the show, there’s a man dying’: As three women struggled to save him, one item could have changed the outcome
theage.com.au
As first-responders rushed to help a dying man, it took 15 minutes before the first beeps of a life-saving device rang out.
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Safety rules and regulations are written in blood. A thousand someones were mangled, maimed, crushed, ripped apart, sickened, killed before OSHA came. I can promise you that.
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🚨🚨 20 years of cardiac arrest in Victoria in @theMJA: Utstein survival increased threefold bw 2003–2022 [but] the C19 pandemic was associated with a significant reduction in survival @emandrew1 @Ziad_Nehme1 @expensivecare @RosscoSalathiel @prof_cameron
https://t.co/9lNTfd05SG
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The College welcomes the @VicGovAu’s introduction today of a new parliamentary bill to enable the creation of Paramedic Practitioners in the state - an Australian first. Read our full media release at https://t.co/B3jUHa9SBo
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Not many get stolen and people get hurt in the panic of unlocking them: see our @Ilcor_org review on the impact of locked cabinets for AEDs @ARC_resus @GregPage_Yellow @HeartCPR @ERC_resus
https://t.co/4mcIzL4fdj
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Congratulations to these good blokes, Dr @Buck_Reed and Dr Scott Stewart for becoming Fellows with the College - well deserved after your decades of dedication to #paramedicine 🚑
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This highlights perfectly what paramedics and @VicAmboUnion are trying to achieve, an EBA that delivers conditions to improve work life balance conducive of a family. It also highlights that if not, we will leave @JacintaAllanMP #springst #ambosdeservealifetoo
The Australasian Paramedic Workforce Survey showed a great desire for flexibility in the workplace; a reduction in time pressures. Also, 34% of paramedics now work outside of a jurisdictional ambulance service! #ACPIC24
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@LauraCWirth @DrLouReynolds Great work. It's disappointing to see the concerns go even further and beyond pain. Sex Disparities in Quality of EMS Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. https://t.co/WPWVtmWbz2
thecardiologyadvisor.com
There are significant sex-based differences in emergency medical service resuscitation quality in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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The Australasian Paramedic Workforce Survey showed a great desire for flexibility in the workplace; a reduction in time pressures. Also, 34% of paramedics now work outside of a jurisdictional ambulance service! #ACPIC24
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@LauraCWirth @Lisa_Hobbs_ Totally anecdotal but I also find that fertility problems are a lot higher in paramedic friends than nursing and non medical friends all of similar demographics.
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Menstrual cycle disorders are 14.43% higher in paramedics than the Australian average. 29% of respondents used hormonal contraception to make it easier to work in the paramedic environment. Thank you @Lisa_Hobbs_ for contextualising working conditions. #ACPIC24
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Thank you @DrLouReynolds for shining a light on the gender pain gap 🙏🏻 “Being your own advocate takes a toll.” #ACPIC24
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The #ACPIC24 is off and running with @jdheffern keynote presentation on ‘what is a paramedic?’ #paramedics are like a Swiss Army knife - resourceful like MacGyver!
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My #ambulance era 🚑 Thank you, everyone, for helping to make it so wonderful. It's a job unlike any other, and I genuinely feel privileged to have had this chapter in my life. #Paramedicine is more than just a job, and I'm so thankful to have shared this chapter with you all.
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Members of the public calling triple-0 in New South Wales will now be given the option to live stream their emergency situation, in a major emergency dispatch overhaul.
abc.net.au
Members of the public can now click on a link that is sent to their smartphone when they call triple-0. A limited trial has already been used in cases including the fatal Bondi Junction stabbing in...
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