If you tune into Netflix these days, you can view
Ambulance Australia and see how the medics of the Queensland Ambulance Service respond to 0-0-0 calls as they perform EMS down under. How does EMS care in Australia differ from the United States? We spoke to Stephen Rashford, MBBS, FACEM, medical director of the Queensland Ambulance Service, to find out.
Rashford is an emergency physician and has been the medical director for QAS since 2005. During his time in this role, he has overseen a significant expansion in innovative paramedic practice, with particular interests in hemostatic blood product resuscitation, point-of-care ultrasound, airway management, procedural sedation, and the treatment of STEMI. Rashford is often in the field treating patients with his paramedics, looking to refine and optimize clinical algorithms. He also worked in the United States in the 1990s during his specialist training, so he knows about the U.S. EMS system as well.