Intimate Partner Violence and Paramedicine: An Updated Scoping Review of Perspectives and Practices

While EMS clinicians were recognized as a poorly understood, under-utilized, and under-equipped resource for IPV survivors, current literature is insufficient to comprehensively guide practice. Heterogeneity and limited quantity contribute to this challenge. Future research should leverage newly developed and validated measures to identify gaps responsive to educational and/or policy interventions and explore novel technologies to improve the quality of EMS clinician-collected IPV data. Equipping EMS clinicians with the tools to provide high-quality IPV care will benefit IPV survivors, EMS clinicians, and health care more broadly.