Paramedics may not feel prepared to deal with end of life care patients as historically their training has been focussed on acute medical and trauma management. This has been shown to cause conflict with paramedic perceptions of their role
This article provides a brief historical overview of paramedic practice in the UK, before highlighting some of the barriers to effective paramedic end-of-life care provision and introducing examples of collaborative work in the UK that aim to overcome these.
Abstract Background Prehospital emergency providers (emergency medical technicians [EMTs] and paramedics) who respond to emergency calls for patients near the end-of-life (EOL) make critical decisions in the field about initiating care and transport to an emergency department. Objective To identify how a sample of prehospital providers learned about EOL care, their perceived confidence with and […]
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