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And while we all wished our colleagues well as they flew over to NZ, superstar🌟PhD student Paige Watkins stepped up to represent us at the Mark Liveris Seminar and Research Day, winning the "People's Choice" award for the second year in a row. Well done, Paige!

Congratulations to PRECRU PhD student Ashlea Smith on her first publication! Her systematic review found the odds of OHCA survival were estimated to be approximately 50% lower in rural areas compared to metro areas. Interested? Read more here: resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-…

A fascinating insight into how call takers manage OHCA calls, during and after: “If you miss that first step in the chain of survival, there is no second step”–Emergency ambulance call-takers’ experiences in managing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest calls. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

A person may be in cardiac arrest if... ❤️ They have collapsed and lost consciousness ❤️ Their breathing is absent or not normal ❤️ They have no pulse If you've identified these signs it's crucial you call 000 AU /111 NZ & begin CPR compressions. #CallPushShock #RestartAHeart

A new joint PRECRU/St John WA publication – "Use of ketamine wafer for pain management by volunteer emergency medical technicians in rural Western Australia" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Applications for a new RTP (full-time) PhD scholarship with PRECRU, located at Curtin University is open now: “ Spatial analysis and modelling of strategies to reduce the time to defibrillation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)”. More info: scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?i…

PhD student Paul Braybrook's systematic review on hiking and mountain biking injuries found that for participants in both activities the majority (of injuries) were of minor severity. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

As has become tradition, another one of our amazing PhD students has won the Expert Panel Award for her three minute presentation at the Mark Liveris Research Student Seminar Curtin University. Well done Emogene!!

PhD candidate Emogene Aldridge has won an American Heart Association 2023 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award. Well done Emogene!

PhD candidate Emogene Aldridge's descriptive study has been accepted for publication in Resuscitation. Well done, Emogene! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An interesting qualitative study on falls by PRECRU PhD candidate Paige Watkins has recently been published in Australasian Emergency Care.

PhD student Paige Watkins' final falls paper has been published in the Prehospital Emergency Care Journal: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Well done Paige!

PRECRU has two scholarships currently available at Curtin University : 1. Investigating strategies to achieve early defibrillation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, using spatial analysis methods. scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?i…

2. The epidemiology and prehospital management of chest pain and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in rural/remote Western Australia. scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?i… Applications close 18th August.

Well done to PRECRU PhD student Ashlea Smith on her recent publication that looked at the impact of rurality on bystander interventions, pre-hospital management and survival of OHCA patients. doi.org/10.1016/j.resp…

Join the Curtin School of Nursing as a Research Associate/Research Fellow in an exciting programme of research funded by NHMRC and St John WA. Applications close Wednesday, the 26th of March 2025. More info: seek.com.au/job/82553074