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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: The High Acuity Response Unit (HARU) & Critical Care with Stephen Rashford
Description: Steve is the medical director of The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) with 5,000 staff and 1,300 response vehicles. QAS has a contemporary approach to clinical service delivery and innovation in prehospital trauma care. It also operates a tiered system of pre-hospital care with Advanced Care Paramedics (ACPs), Intensive Care Paramedics (ICPs) and a smaller cohort of HARU Paramedics.Â
In this episode we discuss a variety of topics:
High Acuity Response Unit (HARU) both its inception and the clinical remit for the HARU.
Governance around the HARU program and provider quality assurance for some of the procedures (RSI, on-call a...