Paramedic Management of Non-Traumatic Back Pain in a Large Australian Ambulance Service: A Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Non-traumatic back pain commonly leads people to seek health care from paramedics via triple-zero (emergency phone number in Australia), yet the management approaches by providers of ambulance services remain unclear.

Study objectives

This study aims to investigate paramedic management of non-traumatic back pain in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, including the call characteristics, provisional diagnoses, and the clinical care being delivered by paramedics.

Methods

This study is a retrospective analysis of NSW Ambulance computer-aided dispatch and electronic medical records from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2022. Adults who sought ambulance service with a chief complaint of back pain, were triaged as non-traumatic back pain, and subsequently rece

SUBMITTER: Vella SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12018008 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature