Table 4.

Involving paramedics in the research process

Our fire chief that was here at the time and he was instrumental in design: the drip tubing, the dosage was administered at the proper rate so that it was administered over the fifteen minutes in a pre-hospital setting. He was instrumental in organising the fire service aspect of it and being the interface between the hospital side and the pre-hospital side. We were helping him figure those things out. (US-FS4)

Interviewer: For somebody like us doing research, how would we find the right people to involve? Paramedic: Volunteers, I think. You would ask for volunteers first of all, wouldn’t you. There’s going to be some there because they just want the kudos of being able to do it as well. But most of them will want to do it because they’ll want to do it… for the benefit of the patient. (UK-FG3)

Once you have people out there that are doing it there will be more and more people that want to do it. (UK-FG3)