Joel Symonds talks us through humour in the prehospital care arena, when it is appropriate to use and when humour is not appropriate but perhaps most poignantly why it is important and its use in emotionally protecting responders and its role in mental resilience.
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Joel Symonds is an Advanced Practitioner in Pre-hospital Critical Care from Edinburgh. On leaving school he worked as a nanny, a pyrotechnician, a children’s actor and a civil servant. He joined the Ambulance Service in 2005 and was promptly told by a burned-out colleague – “The problem with joining the ambulance service is once you’ve become a paramedic there’s nowhere else to go”. Choosing to ignore this nihilism, Joel has spent his career exploring the opportunities available to staff with pre-hospital management skills. Since then, he has worked in international motor racing, desert search and rescue, hostile environment industrial health care, governance consultancy, education and research. He is regularly asked where he’ll be in five years’ time: he has no idea, but can’t wait to find out.
Joel has a special interest in human factors, interactions and experience within emergency care, believing that everything we do ultimately hinges on the patients, care providers and bystanders involved. Joel lives in Edinburgh with his family, plays geeky board games and emerged from the 2020 pandemic as a runner and baker. He’ll probably have found something different next week.
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Bernd Wallner & Hermann Brugger - CPR with restricted patient access.
Peter Lorrain-Smith – Police Scotland
Pam Barker and Duncan McDonald - Role of the Scottish Ambulance Service Special Operations Response Team (SORT)
John Aitchison - Scottish Fire and Rescue Service - Who are they and what do they do?
Damon Powell – Roles, Responsibilities and Capabilities of MRT
Stuart Braithwaite – RNLI
Paddy Morgan – Drowning and cold water immersion
James Stevenson - Major Incidents
Caitlin Wilson - Prehospital Feedback
Mark Worrall - Seizures in the Paediatric Patient
Mark Worrall - Paediatric Respiratory Emergencies part 2
Mark Worrall - Paediatric Respiratory Emergencies part 1
Mark Worrall - Anaphylaxis in the paediatric child
Caitlin Wilson - Hyperventilation Syndrome
Gail Topping - Are you OK?
Dave Strachan - Suspension Trauma
April Lochhead - Falls in the community
Winston de Mello - Prehospital management of burns
Lucy Powls - Obstetric Emergencies in the Pre-hospital Environment
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