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Keep in mind, clinical training is for the most part is significantly higher here in Aus, its a dual paramedic crew (with Intensive care, Extended Care and Phyiscians also utilized in NSW and most other states) Just hope you can deal with the universal healthcare here and can let go of Cigna :P

@steveb haha, that series "HELP" is ancient Cira 2001ish I think :P The recruits series have beat that x10000

This was before the change over, before Regular Paramedics held Zoll M series, the ICP's and ECP's had the Lifepak 12's. During the filming/just after, all couple thousand or so monitors in the service were uniformly changed to Lifepak 15's. With the change over telemetry data connections were...

Mercedes Sprinters here only in Australia. Skip to 3min and you can see an arrest being run in the back off one. (this is a Australian docco based on new paramedics entering the govt ambulance service in NSW, Australia) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3pXMI1Q6Gk&feature=fvwrel Its...

rest of the series. Enjoyy. Ep 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZdU2ePpbr4&list=UUTU3J9NUpbwa1IzfzywgD-Q&index=15&feature=plpp_video Ep 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3pXMI1Q6Gk&feature=fvwrel Ep 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIVPhIB86zU&feature=relmfu Ep 10...

Maybe we're just a little bit more "laid back" here then you guys and your patients are in the states. Perhaps something to do with the patient not worrying over the hospital bill and only the mundane ambulance bill (if they didnt opt for a $40 a year sub or arent pensioners) under our...

Sort of, youre back in class after that 8 weeks for more training and you don't become a qualified "Paramedic" until 3 years after youre first on road. Then you can apply to undertake intensive care and extended care scat/rescue chopper training etc. not many are accepted directly in the route...

What did you think about outs system here? Anything you like/hate. Haha, it's way better, it's Aussie :P

haha, it is, it is! I hope a few more americans have a watch of this series, im keen to hear what they think about it (our system) from a pretty much "first hand" view. :):)

Series found Hey guys, found the full series of the show. Its a great documentary on the government run (paramedic only) ambulance service here in my State NSW (Sydney, Australia). Definitely worth watching, it takes all aspects of the job:D enjoy, and let me know what you think. Its a new...

Not that I know of. Our emergency departments here are near exclusive located in "public hospitals" and are staffed by RN's, EN's, Nurse practitioners and Doctors. Also keep in mind the paramedics here are paid significantly better and there is no "massive chunk" of health deductibles taken out...

I reckon, i found the premier epp of the recruits show, it would be interesting if you post back any things you find different here (complete paramedic staffing, universal healthcare and we have 1 government run ambulance service covering the entire state) compared to your system...

Well it is like NSW and most of Aus, private companies do mainly event coverage (if St John volunteers don't cover it) and very few IFT. only the statutory ambulance service (ie ASNSW (govt) here or St John in WA) can respond to 000 calls.

Remember our systems here are near exclusive paramedic. So anything less than a EMT-I with much experience wouldn't be considered, I'd think. Our Ambulance systems are very different from the US. it's near complete "offline" I.e w/o med control, I'm guessing youd have to be quite confident, that...

Landcruiser ambulance? They're pretty ugly, just sayin' haha