How to deal with the tyranny of distance – Prolonged Casualty Care in Australia. This session will provide a brief history and overview of Prolonged Casualty Care and how we can utilise this practice to continue to provide care to patients when definitive care is delayed or non-existent in remote settings in Australia.
Biography: Nicole Foster
Nicole Foster is a registered paramedic with a Master's in Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. She has contributed to the 'NATO Special Operations Combat Medic Remote and Austere Medicine Field Guide for Practitioners' and specialises in remote and austere environments. Nicole has worked in various settings, including jurisdictional ambulance services, offshore vessels, exploration sites, NGOs, and as an external contractor with the military. Nicole currently works with the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine as their Undergraduate Lead.
Photo by Jemma Craig on Canva
The College is the peak professional body representing and supporting paramedics and student paramedics across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand since 1973.
The College acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of the land and sea in which we live and work, we recognise their continuing connection to land, sea and culture and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
The College acknowledges Māori as tangata whenua and Treaty of Waitangi partners in Aotearoa New Zealand.
