Paramedic Specialist Role

There are numerous paramedic specialist roles that are immensely beneficial to the community and even more so in rural areas. Specialist Roles provide and allow a for a wider range of scope of practices where patients can receive advanced care in difficult or life threatening situations. The most common specialist role that majority of paramedics aspire to become is an intensive care paramedic. An intensive care paramedic is an advanced clinical specialist of paramedicine and like every service will work with a variety of multidisciplinary teams supporting each other and achieving common goals that benefit the community.

To advance from a fully qualified paramedic to an intensive care paramedic will involve an educational requirement where …show more content…
An intensive care paramedic can conduct advanced airway methods such as intubation as well as advanced pain relief working with a wider range of drugs and are trained to deliver intraosseous infusions providing fluids or medications when there is no intravenous access this method is particularly used with burns patients. Intensive care paramedics can also conduct external cardia pacing as well as …show more content…
An intensive care Paramedic will work with nurses and doctors in Emergency Departments of hospitals or other health care facilities and in special circumstances will work with nurses and doctors out in the field. Here It is crucial to be respectful to the patient and Emergency Department Personnel whilst upholding interactive communications especially with patient handovers where the intensive care paramedic will give all relevant information that should be divulged to nurses or even doctors as this greatly effects how the patient will be treated and will give rise to serious consequences where personnel have poorly dealt with