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Ottawa Citizen
The drone hovered before carefully dropping its payload — a small defibrillator — on target. Nearby, three paramedic executives from Germany watched the demonstration closely.
Drones, which have delivered medicine to flood victims and given rescuers a birds-eye view of stranded homeowners in recent months, are just part of what drew the Germans to Renfrew County to see local paramedics at work.
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Be sure to check #PACE2019 social media for a special announcement this August long weekend!
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PACE2019 will be offering a variety of learning, networking, and educational opportunities including pre-conference sessions, a Paramedic Research Symposium, dedicated speaker tracks for “Clinical”, “Educators”, “Leadership”, “Specialty”, and an opportunity to visit and participate in a traditional Indigenous Sweat Lodge Ceremony.
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PaNOW
People sleeping or taking breaks in public spaces has led to an increased call-volume for Parkland Ambulance.
When an ambulance gets called out for a ‘man down’ call, Director of Public Affairs Lyle Karasiuk said it’s often the result of Good Samaritans noticing someone in distress, but unable to provide key details for paramedics to determine the best response.
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The Western Star
With her father, Bernard Hawco, severely burned and onboard in May, Florrie Drake wondered if the ambulance would make it to St. John’s from Chapel’s Cove.
Hawco, 85, survived the ordeal of first- and second-degree burns after his clothes caught fire while he was burning brush on his land, but died in late June of pneumonia he contracted while in the Health Sciences Centre, where he had remained since the ambulance trip.
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Victoria News
An initiative that brought bike paramedics to Victoria’s downtown two years ago has been proving successful, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services.
The initiative, launched as a trial in 2017 in response to the opioid crisis, sees a pair of paramedics on bikes patrol downtown for eight hours a day, seven days week, from May to October.
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Tri-City News
The union representing B.C.'s ambulance dispatchers and paramedics has reached an agreement in principle with the Health Employers’ Association of British Columbia to improve services for employees and ensure fair and affordable compensation.
The agreement in principle is subject to ratification by the approximately 4,500 paramedics and dispatchers across the province.
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Ottawa Citizen
Maria Makkos greets Stephanie Rose at the front door of Makkos’s Arnprior apartment building.
“You are here to see me?” she asks, grinning broadly as she leads the community paramedic to her tidy unit.
Over her shoulder, Rose, the paramedic, carries a heavy black bag containing a blood pressure cuff, equipment for drawing blood, papers and other medical equipment.
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The London Free Press
The London-area paramedic service is asking the region’s health authority to support a program paramedics say helps cut down unneeded patient visits to hospital emergency rooms.
The funding request to the South West Local Health Integration Network, the agency that allocates health-care dollars in much of Southwestern Ontario, comes after a private grant that supported a pilot program that allowed paramedics to virtually monitor patients at their homes ran out at the end of June.
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Owen Sound Sun Times
A team of Grey County paramedics are about to start a new kind of training — one they hope will make a difference in the lives of their fellow first responders.
Next week, they will team up with a psychologist to learn how to identify and deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and operational stress, which adversely affects many parademics.
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CTV News
Urgences-Sante is asking people to be patient with paramedics and parking.
In a recent Facebook post, Urgences-Sante showed a picture of a note left on an ambulance's windshield telling the ambulance not to block an entrance, and calling the paramedics a 'band of idiots.'
According to the post, the emergency workers were responding to a 9-1-1 call that had been ranked Priority 1.
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Applied Ergonomics
A two phase project is described for redesigning and evaluating paramedic response bags, one of the key pieces of equipment used by emergency medical services. Adopting a user-centred approach, Phase I involved first educating active service paramedics about ergonomic principles, and then collaborating with them to conceptualise a new type of response bag, based on separate colour coded kits, each containing related equipment items.
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ScienceDaily
When temperatures in the Southwestern US climb to over 100 degrees, the pavement can get hot enough to cause second-degree burns in seconds. In a new study, a team of surgeons reviewed pavement burn admissions into a Las Vegas area burn center over five years. The team compared the outdoor temperatures at the time of each patient admission to, in essence, determine how hot is too hot.
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CTV News
An ambulance was involved in a three-vehicle collision in southeast Edmonton.
Edmonton police told CTV News Edmonton a westbound truck on 34 Avenue ran a red light and was struck by a southbound SUV on 50 Street. The truck then crashed into the ambulance attempting to turn left at the intersection.
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CBC News
Before Chris Bruckner moved to Inuvik in February, he'd already planned an attempt to break the Trans-Canada solo men's biking record.
The current record was set in 13 days, six hours and 13 minutes. Bruckner said he finished his 5,747-kilometre ride in 13 days, three hours and 49 minutes.
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Windsor Star
A serious collision between an Essex-Windsor EMS ambulance and another vehicle shut down a major intersection in Windsor’s east end on Friday morning.
The incident happened at Lauzon Road and Tranby Avenue shorty after 8:30 a.m.
A dark-coloured SUV ended up on its driver side in the roadway.
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KenoraOnline
Henry Wall from the district services board is also the co-chair for the all-nations health partners, and he offers an update on how they're responding to social issues in downtown Kenora.
"Recognizing that what is happening in the community is by far and large a health care issue, and we need all levels of government at this," he said recently.
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The Recorder & Times
After 46 years as a paramedic in Leeds and Grenville, Chris Lloyd is calling it a career.
Lloyd, chief of paramedic services for the United Counties, announced Thursday that he will retire on Dec. 31, 2019.
“The job has been very rewarding both professionally and personally,” Lloyd said in a brief statement to counties council. “I’d like to thank everybody here for your support for the years that I have served throughout the counties.”
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The Peterborough Examiner
The Bowmanville hospital is one step closer to getting the air ambulance back with a potential temporary helipad site on Haines Street recently endorsed by the Central East LHIN (local health integration network).
"In an ideal world we will have a helipad landing at the hospital site in Bowmanville," said Dr. Tony Stone, chief of staff for Lakeridge Health. "Realistically that isn't possible today."
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Region of Peel
The Region of Peel is informing residents of how $6.1 million in provincial cuts to health services could impact their property tax rates and the delivery of paramedic and public health services.
"Everyone appreciates the province's goal of balancing the Budget, and I believe that in public service it is always worthwhile to look for ways of doing things more efficiently — it's how we operate our regional government," said Regional Chair Nando Iannicca.
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