Volume 27, Issue 142, December 2023

Paramedic’s contributions in urgent and primary care systems

Fares Mohammed Alabdullah¹, Yazeed Jazaa Alharbi¹, Sultan Hussain Saeed Alqahtani¹, Rayan Abdullah Almalki², Abdullah Saleh Albalawi¹, Osama Ali Alsallami², Rayan Mohammed Alqahtani¹

¹Emergency Medical Specialist, National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
²Emergency Medical Specialist, National Guard Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Our goal in conducting this study was to give a general overview of the clinical roles that paramedics play in urgent care and primary care settings. This review follows PRISMA standards, and we conducted a search through; Cochrane, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and Embase, databases. Overall, 984 articles were collected, after filtration 5 articles were included in the review, using the Mendeley reference management software, duplicate studies were eliminated. Questions, aims, concepts, methodology, citations, and study findings are among the information that has been extracted. The paramedic practising in primary care had varying job titles across studies inclusing; paramedic practitioner, specialist paramedic, and emergency care practitioner. According to two studies, patients and other primary care doctors were perplexed by the range of titles, raising questions about the autonomy, scope of practise, and role of these paramedics.

Keywords: Paramedic, urgent care, primary care, contribution

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e387ms3263

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v27i142.e387ms3263

Published: 11 December 2023