Laura Wirth

@DrLouReynolds @agwalker01 @alan_eade @DuncanMcConnel1 @almclachlan1 @DrDavidNLong @lilylucent @tracyniks @NAEMT_ @Dr_AngMartin @RosalieBoyce @JacintaAllanMP @AckerJoe @MelissaSweetDr Sally Hasler says it well. Meanwhile I have been in contact with key policymakers Australia-wide to take up the recommendations of the Victorian report. The evidence base is overwhelming & there's no point in re-inventing the wheel. It's time for action. womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-hea…

Australian women having a cardiac arrest are less likely to: 🩷 Have the arrest recognised in the 000 call, 🩷 Receive bystander CPR and an AED shock, 🩷 Receive ALS interventions and post-resuscitation care, 🩷 Survive to hospital discharge. @ARC_resus @aus_roc

‘Stop the show, there’s a man dying’: As three women struggled to save him, one item could have changed the outcome theage.com.au/national/stop-…

Safety rules and regulations are written in blood. A thousand someones were mangled, maimed, crushed, ripped apart, sickened, killed before OSHA came. I can promise you that.

🚨🚨 20 years of cardiac arrest in Victoria in @theMJA: Utstein survival increased threefold bw 2003–2022 [but] the C19 pandemic was associated with a significant reduction in survival @emandrew1 @Ziad_Nehme1 @expensivecare @RosscoSalathiel @prof_cameron doi.org/10.5694/mja2.5…

The College welcomes the @VicGovAu’s introduction today of a new parliamentary bill to enable the creation of Paramedic Practitioners in the state - an Australian first. Read our full media release at bit.ly/ACP-Media-Rele…

Not many get stolen and people get hurt in the panic of unlocking them: see our @Ilcor_org review on the impact of locked cabinets for AEDs @ARC_resus @GregPage_Yellow @HeartCPR @ERC_resus sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to these good blokes, Dr @Buck_Reed and Dr Scott Stewart for becoming Fellows with the College - well deserved after your decades of dedication to #paramedicine 🚑

The Australasian Paramedic Workforce Survey showed a great desire for flexibility in the workplace; a reduction in time pressures. Also, 34% of paramedics now work outside of a jurisdictional ambulance service! #ACPIC24

This highlights perfectly what paramedics and @VicAmboUnion are trying to achieve, an EBA that delivers conditions to improve work life balance conducive of a family. It also highlights that if not, we will leave @JacintaAllanMP #springst #ambosdeservealifetoo

@ParamedProf @DrLouReynolds Thank you for bringing this to mind: as women, we are unfortunately less likely to receive bystander CPR…

@LauraCWirth @DrLouReynolds Great work. It's disappointing to see the concerns go even further and beyond pain. Sex Disparities in Quality of EMS Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. thecardiologyadvisor.com/news/sex-dispa…

Thank you @DrLouReynolds for shining a light on the gender pain gap 🙏🏻 “Being your own advocate takes a toll.” #ACPIC24

@mhnparamedic @Lisa_Hobbs_ Thank you for sharing. I also found the same with many of my ambulance colleagues, being told by their doctors they were surprisingly young to be facing infertility.

@LauraCWirth @Lisa_Hobbs_ Totally anecdotal but I also find that fertility problems are a lot higher in paramedic friends than nursing and non medical friends all of similar demographics.

Menstrual cycle disorders are 14.43% higher in paramedics than the Australian average. 29% of respondents used hormonal contraception to make it easier to work in the paramedic environment. Thank you @Lisa_Hobbs_ for contextualising working conditions. #ACPIC24

What a way to end the first day with a wonderful presentation from @shaun838 👏🏻 “Make yourself a good mentor collection,” 🚑 “Leadership is not a role, it’s a behaviour, and you don’t get to choose if you’re good at it,” (Diviney) #ACPIC24

The #ACPIC24 is off and running with @jdheffern keynote presentation on ‘what is a paramedic?’ #paramedics are like a Swiss Army knife - resourceful like MacGyver!

My #ambulance era 🚑 Thank you, everyone, for helping to make it so wonderful. It's a job unlike any other, and I genuinely feel privileged to have had this chapter in my life. #Paramedicine is more than just a job, and I'm so thankful to have shared this chapter with you all.