International Paramedic CollegeDefibrillators

Paramedic and education should develop decision making skills and judgement, two critically important clinical skills in the field. You are given your skills and training to use judiciously, to intervene, when a patient’s condition is such that they may not make it to hospital without that intervention. Intervention in itself has its risks and rewards. Finding that balance, requires clinical judgement. Can that be taught? Judgement is according to the philosopher Kant, in his “Critique of Pure Reason” a talent which can be practised, but the weighting of options with a clear focus on clinical outcomes can, we believe, be developed using the logic inherent in all our thinking. The key factors that allow us to to optimise pre-hospital care comes form recognising our own strengths and weaknesses.