Research Abstracts from ACPIC23 have now been published in Paramedicine.

Session Theme: Models of Care – Systems

• 3MT: How do paramedics navigate conveyance decisions? - Alannah Morrison, Alison Craswell, Fiona Bogossian
• Reimagining the ambulance services of the future: An evidence based redesign - Timothy Makrides
• Harnessing Global Insights for Local Action: Navigating Community Paramedicine Programs Across Borders - Brendan Shannon, Alan Batt, Georgette Eaton, Matthew Leyenaar, Peter O'Meara, Tomas Barry, Chelsea Lanos, Gary Wingrove, Brett Williams, Michael Nolan, Ray Carne, JD Heffern, Kelly-Ann Bowles
• Parliament to the frontlines: Viewpoints on community paramedic specialists within emergency medical services - Matt Wilkinson-Stokes, Celene Yap, Di Crellin, Ray Bange, George Braitberg, Marie Gerdtz
• What is the relationship between professional registration, identity and professionalisation in Australian Paramedics? - Buck Reed, Peter O'Meara, Leanne Cowin, Christine Metusela, Ian Wilson

Session Theme: Models of Care – Patients

• 3MT: The patient experience of accessing community healthcare in rural NSW: addressing barriers with alternative models of primary care - Gregory Murphy, Belinda Flanagan, Louise Clark
• Does parent/carer and paramedic choice for hospital destination differ in the setting of Children with Special Health Care Needs? - Tanie Stickland
• A retrospective cohort study of the performance of MPDS in identifying patients requiring chest compressions at overdose prevention sites - Richard Armour, Brian Grunau, Sammy Iammarino, Jane Buxton, Brooke Kinniburgh, Heather Burgess, Suzanne Nielsen, Kali Sedgemore, Paul Choisil, Linda Ross
• Organ donation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada - a potential role for paramedics - Chelsea Lanos, Ian Drennan, Karim Solimon, Steve Lin, Christian Vaillancourt, Sonny Dhanani, Dominique Cook, Alan Batt
• Patients’ experiences of non-conveyance following an Australian ambulance service paramedic response: A constructivist grounded theory exploration - Robbie King, Florin Oprescu, Bill Lord, Belinda Flanagan, Terri Downer

Session Theme: Wellbeing

• 3MT: Self-compassion and PTSD symptoms in paramedics - Julia Stone, Sonja Maria, Suzanne McLaren
• Identifying organ donors attended by prehospital healthcare professionals: A scoping review - Ben Lawson, Tim Andrews, Brett Williams
• “It’s just frustrating…” The experiences of paramedics interacting with aged care staff: A phenomenological study - Sascha Baldry, Paul Simpson, Liz Thyer
• Out-of-hospital paramedic interactions with people living with dementia: A Scoping Review - Max Han, Linda Ross, David Anderson, Liam Hemingway, Cameron Gosling
• I’m not religious but thank God you’re here: A mixed methods study exploring chaplains in Australian Ambulance services - Katie Tunks Leach, Joanne Lewis, Paul Simpson, Tracy Levett-Jones

Session Theme: Workplace Culture

• 3MT: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of Australian female paramedics through creative arts-based research - Lisa Hobbs, Rebecca Scollen, Beata Batorowicz, Scott Devenish
• Review of Australasian Ambulance Service Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) - Matthew Ferris, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Alexander Wolkow, Aislinn Lalor
• The F word: Perceptions and attitudes about fatigue among Australian paramedics - Sian Wanstall, Anjum Naweed, Brandon Brown, Meagan Crowther, Tim Rayner, Robert Adams, Amy Reynolds
• The impact of workplace factors, workload and culture on the medication safety practices of paramedics - Dennis Walker, Janet Hou, David Long, Brendan SueSee, Clint Moloney
• Workplace sexual harassment experiences of early-career female paramedics in New South Wales - Grace Madden, Jessica Biles, Alisha McFarlane

Session Theme: Clinical Improvement

• Chronic Pain in the Paramedic Practice Setting - A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Perspective - Lucinda Peacock, Rachel Lewandowsky, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Bill Lord, Tim Andrews
• Assessment of optimal methods for preoxygenation in prehospital emergency anaesthesia - Hannah Lindsay, Benjamin Meadley, Matthew Humar
• Development of an international CPR-Induced Consciousness guideline: A Delphi study - Jack Howard, Eystein Grusd, Don Rice, Nikiah Nudell, Carlos Lipscombe, Matthew Shepherd, Alexander Olaussen
• Direct admission versus inter-hospital transfer to a level I trauma unit does not improve survival following severe traumatic brain injury - Bianca Hardcastle, Timothy Hardcastle1, Simpiwe Sobuwa

Session Theme: Education Research

• A comparison of immersive and traditional simulation methods on self-reported performance in undergraduate paramedicine students - Rachael Vella, Liz Thyer, Paul Simpson
• Lifelong Learning is Key: Exploring the Factors that Improve Self-directed Learning in Undergraduate Education - Ashleigh Finn, Caitlin Fitzgibbon, Natalie Fonda, Cameron Gosling
• Paramedic and Medical Students’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment During Clinical Placement: A Systematic Review - Hannah Stack, Prue Gonzalez
• The use of social media and online focus groups for contemporary research in Paramedicine - Alannah Morrison, Alison Craswell, Fiona Bogossian

Session Theme: Best of the Best

• The Lived Experience of Paramedics Delivering Care to the Mentally Unwell: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study - Matthew Simpson, Paul Simpson, Liz Thyer, Martin Christensen
• Enablers and Barriers in Community Paramedicine Programs in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Insights for their evolution - Alecka Miles, Brendan Shannon, Peter O'Meara, David Long, Angela Martin
• Developing a competency framework for contemporary paramedic practice in Canada - Alan Batt, Jennifer Bolster, Meghan Lysko

Access the published research abstracts on the Paramedicine website here.