Rate My Professor Jason Bendall

Associate Professor Jason Bendall is the Clinical Dean at the Manning Clinical School within the Department of Rural Health at the University of Newcastle. He completed his undergraduate honours degree in medical science in 1991 before training as a paramedic. In 2004, he graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in medicine. Bendall subsequently specialized in anaesthesia and has undertaken further postgraduate studies in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. Currently, he serves as a Staff Specialist in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at John Hunter Hospital since February 2018. Additionally, since November 2016, he has held the position of Commissioner, a non-executive director role providing strategic volunteer leadership and governance, at St John Ambulance Australia (New South Wales). Bendall's clinical and research interests include paramedicine, prehospital and retrieval medicine, clinical anaesthesia, resuscitation, trauma, acute pain management, biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, first aid, and pain management.

Bendall is the Convenor of the First Aid sub-committee of the Australian Resuscitation Council and a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) first aid task force. His scholarly contributions encompass a wide range of publications. Key works include the chapter 'Hypoglycaemia and Hyperglycaemia' (2020); conference presentations on 'Anaphylaxis' (2019) and 'Cervical collars and tourniquets – are they in or out?' (2019); and 'PARAMEDIC-PERFORMED DIGITAL NERVE BLOCK TO FACILITATE FIELD REDUCTION OF A DISLOCATED FINGER' (2012). Recent journal articles feature 'Non-transport of patients following assessment and care by paramedics: a scoping review protocol' (2026), 'Expedited transfer from the scene for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Australia' (2025), 'Increasing prehospital tourniquet use attributed to non-indicated use: an 11-year retrospective study' (2025), 'Paramedic Management of Non-Traumatic Back Pain in a Large Australian Ambulance Service: A Retrospective Study' (2025), 'Evaluating soft collars in pre-hospital cervical spine immobilisation' (2024), 'Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation differences by sex' (2024), 'A randomized trial of expedited intra-arrest transfer' (2024), 'Predictive and protective factors for failing first pass intubation' (2024), 'Perceptions and experiences of paramedics managing people with non-traumatic low back pain' (2024), 'Evaluating the effectiveness of the maximum permitted dose of midazolam in seizure termination' (2024), 'Crystalloid Fluid Management of Non-Traumatic Hypotension by New South Wales Ambulance' (2024), 'Tranexamic Acid for Traumatic Injury in the Emergency Setting' (2024), 'Prehospital times and outcomes of patients transported using an ambulance trauma transport protocol' (2023), 'The New South Wales Sudden Cardiac Arrest Registry' (2023), 'Evaluation of the New South Wales ambulance T1 major trauma transport protocol' (2023), and 'Lessons from the first two years of a new out-of-hospital airway registry in New South Wales' (2023). He also contributed to the '2021 International consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care science with treatment recommendations' (2022).