Using a disaster of your choice, comprehensively critique the key prehospital emergency medical care challenges and review the lessons learned from the disaster as they relate to paramedic practice.

In answering the essay, you should consider a range of prehospital challenges, and outline the lessons learned as they relate to paramedic practice.

Remember that paramedic practice does not confine itself to clinical care, but also includes (as examples only) safety and quality, logistics, equipment, communications, management and operations.

The word limit for the essay is 1,200 words (excluding references) (think – there are two parts to this assignment so break up your answer accordingly).