Opening Event: Partnerships in Paramedicine

We opened AUT Research Week 2024 with a special panel discussion from the Paramedicine Department.

AUT’s paramedicine researchers work closely with Hato Hone St John and other partners in the community to improve emergency responses in Aotearoa. Attendees heard how these partnerships can help to save lives: from iwi-led research on improving outcomes for rural Māori, through to community-based first responder trials providing quick responses to cardiac arrest.

Refreshments were provided. The event was also livestreamed.

Speakers

• Professor Mark Orams, AUT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research
  Offering words of welcome to open Research Week
• Associate Professor Andy Swain
  The Telestroke model of care that is being trialled by Wellington Free Ambulance. This study highlights the importance of relationships between AUT researchers, ambulance services and in-hospital clinicians
• Dr Verity Todd  
  First Responder Shock Trial – a clinical trial engaging community responders to attend cardiac arrest patients FIRST Clinical Trial
• Sarah Penney
  Cultural safety in paramedic practice: experiences of Māori and their whānau who have received acute pre-hospital care for cardiac symptoms from paramedics
• Huri Campbell/Tāmati Rakena
  Te Manawaroa first responders. With a mana Māori Motuhake (by Māori for Māori) approach, this project partners AUT researchers with Te Rōpū Manawaora (a Māori advisory board in Kaikohe), and Hato Hone St John’s ambulance service. By combining local Mātauranga with academic research, this project allows community-based first responders to train in a course that incorporates Te Reo Māori, Te Ao Māori and Tikanga as well as the skills to save lives while ambulances are on the way
• Panel discussion - Huri Campbell, Tāmati Rakena, Dr Verity Todd, Associate Professor Bridget Dicker (Facilitator Dr Graham Howie)
  Panel representing research partners and how industry, community and academia work together

Download the full Research Week programme