A/Prof. Tim Makrides1
1Ambulance Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2University of Tasmania, School of Paramedicine, Hobart, Australia
Tim is a dad of two little monsters and holds a PhD in paramedic leadership, system design and modernization from Monash University. He has worked across several systems in Australia and Canada and is currently the Executive Director, Clinical Services at Ambulance Tasmania.
Presentation Title and Overview: Thriving in Chaos: Antifragility and the Future of Paramedicine
Some things benefit from shocks, they thrive and grow, when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder and stressors and love adventure, risk and uncertainty. Yet in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. So Nassim Taleb, a professor specialising in decision making under opacity, called it antifragile.
Antifragility is beyond resilient. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same, the antifragile becomes stronger.
We’ve spent decades building resiliency into paramedic systems, but is our thinking flawed? Are we ok with our systems just returning to baseline?
This presentation explores antifragility and how it can be used to build stronger paramedic systems that are better equipped to deal with changing consumer expectation about the role of modern paramedic systems, insidiously increasing demand as well as rare one off “black swan” incidents.