Trauma patient care — paramedic level
Connect trauma assessment with treatment decisions and a transport plan. For paramedics, this module focuses on the reasoning behind actions, evaluating their effects and responding to changes in condition.
MED-34
EMS cooperation with specialist rescue teams
RM · 8h
Practise cooperation between an EMS team and specialist rescuers, including when your team arrives first. Agree priorities, communicate needs and prepare to take over patient care.
Ask about trainingDifferent team responsibilities. One patient and the need for a shared plan.
An EMS team may arrive before the fire service or join an operation already underway. In either case, it needs to assess conditions, establish safe working options and share information that helps organise further assistance.
The course takes cooperation from the initial scene assessment through to patient handover: communicating needs, agreeing priorities, preparing for release and maintaining continuity of care. We examine the points where medical and technical decisions affect one another.
The module develops the EMS team's role in working with specialists without carrying out their technical tasks. It helps clarify your team's responsibilities and prepare for the next stage of the operation.
Training content
- Situation assessment and safe organisation of the EMS team’s own actions before specialist teams arrive.
- Information exchange, requesting support and preparing cooperation.
- A shared plan, medical priorities during extrication, continuity of care and patient handover.
Learning outcomes
- Participants define their team’s tasks and communicate support needs.
- They coordinate cooperation and prepare to take over patient care from specialist rescuers.
Who it is for
Professionally qualified paramedics in the role described in this module.
How we train
Workshops, problem-solving tasks and scenarios with discussion of decisions and repeated practice.
Environments and links
The training setting is selected to suit the group’s tasks and available facilities.
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