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Calls for paramedics to have extra protection to combat rising assaults
PARAMEDICS have made some extreme suggestions when it comes to protecting themselves against patient violence.
In the first ever international study of its type, their ideas have ranged from better situational awareness to stronger patient restraints, body armour and even weapons.
Assaulted paramedics from 13 countries had their say on what works best to prevent violence against them.
The study, published in the Injury journal this week, featured 1778 Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel, including 633 who reported being assaulted in the previous 12 months.
Central Queensland University Adjunct Professor Brian Maguire said the main suggestions highlighted a need for better training and better options for restraint including handcuffs or calmative injections.
He said other issues were for improved communication and advanced warning, improved public education, better situational awareness, and improved inter-agency co-operation.
Earlier this year a paramedic’s terrifying encounter with a patient was shared around the country after she bravely revealed her story on Facebook.
Steff Dewhurst, a New Zealander living in Melbourne, has been an ambulance worker for four years.
She is one of a countless number of paramedics who have been assaulted, abused or threatened on the job.
Her story followed a week of assaults on paramedics working around the clock to keep Victorians safe.
“Our study found that some EMS personnel see a role for weapons in their self-defence,” Prof Maguire said.
“However, carrying firearms and other self-protection weapons introduces a host of issues in regards to liability.
“Less contentious options included de-escalation training, self-defence training, better pat-downs by police prior to transport, and increased penalties for perpetrators of assaults.”
Prof Maguire said assaulted medics had called for better collaboration with local police, dispatchers and other agencies to obtain warnings about problem locations, known violent offenders or potential issues with handovers.
He has called for ambulance agencies across the globe to work with researchers to develop, implement and test interventions to reduce risk of violence against their personnel.
He said this needed to be done in tandem with systematic reporting of both assaults and near-miss incidents and, importantly, publishing the results of trial interventions.
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