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University of Waterloo
This one-day launch event will introduce and guide attendees through the Standard. Sessions will include: a summary and review of the research evidence informing the Standard, advice on integrating the Standard into a services procurement process, a manufacturer’s perspective on the integration and utility of the Standard, and last but not least, a discussion of the impact and value of the Standard for front-line paramedics. The event will wrap-up with a Question & Answer session and social.
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PAC
On Jan. 29, former Member of Parliament and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale launched the PSPNET program. The Public Safety Personel Network is an online platform to allow public safety members to access information and treatment. One of those treatments is the new internet delivered, cognitive behaviour therapy program. This is a program involving the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment, the University of Regina and the Federal Government.
CAMH defines CBT as the following: CBT is a practical, short-term form of psychotherapy. The PSPNET CBT is tailored specifically to members of the public safety occupations. Currently, the online CBT program is being launched in Saskatchewan and Quebec with the expected roll out to other Provinces in the near future. For more information, please see www.PSPNET.ca
CSA Group
CSA Group is pleased to announce the launch of a project to develop an evidence-informed new National Standard on First Responder Fatigue Risk Management as well as supporting implementation tools. The objective is to provide an innovative approach for first responder organizations to systematically prevent and manage workplace fatigue, by addressing it in a strategic, coordinated approach, and as part of a broad organizational management framework. The intent will be to consider all forms of fatigue including cognitive fatigue, physical fatigue, perceptual fatigue, emotional fatigue, and burnout.
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PAC
The paramedic community is concerned about the number of needless opioid related deaths that occur in Canada
Recently, paramedics with the assistance of the CSA Group developed a standard which outlines a comprehensive national framework for paramedic emergency and front-line response to the opioid crisis across the treatment and care continuum in out-of–hospital emergency and community settings that can be implemented by first responders across Canada. We are now seeking assistance in knowledge translation and a Request for Proposal.
CBC News
There were over seven hours in December when there were zero ambulances available in the City of Winnipeg to respond to emergencies — the longest monthly total in four years, according to data obtained by CBC.
"I have never seen it this bad," said Ryan Woiden, an advanced care paramedic who has worked in the city for 20 years.
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NB Paramedics
On Jan. 22, New Brunswick Paramedics were notified that their bargaining Agent, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, had filed an application to the Labour & Employment Board in an attempt to prevent them from receiving an updated “Medical Science Professionals” classification.
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The Review
A year ago, the Ontario government was set to reduce the number of local authorities providing paramedic services in the province. But those plans were put on hold after considerable concern and opposition was expressed. At the January 17 United Counties of Prescott and Russell Committee of the Whole meeting, three efforts to shape the future of paramedic services in Ontario were outlined to council by Emergency Services Director Marc-André Périard.
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CBC News
All Rayshell Charles could see as she lay in the ambulance were the flower-shaped Christmas decorations hanging from the lamp posts over Saskatoon's University Bridge.
"And I was like, 'I'm almost there, I'm almost there'. I couldn't hold it in anymore," said Charles, whose daughter Akira Hope Laban was born in the ambulance as it crossed the bridge Tuesday morning.
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CBC News
The alleged driver in a fatal 2017 crash near Clarenville told a paramedic on site he had been drinking alcohol, according to testimony heard in Provincial Court recently.
Ruby Hynes, a paramedic with Fewer's Ambulance Service who responded to the two-vehicle collision, testified Tuesday that Firmage told her he had consumed around "a flask and a half" of alcohol.
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Inside Halton
Halton Regional Police and Ontario's Ministry of Labour are investigating a workplace accident in Oakville Tuesday (Feb. 4) that left a man trapped and with severe injuries.
The incident occurred at a business, believed to be Royal Ready-Mix, on Royal Windsor Drive between Ford Drive and Winston Churchill Boulevard around 2 p.m.
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Delta Optimist
South Delta was left without any ambulance personnel one evening, something Mayor George Harvie warns put residents at risk.
Harvie in a recent letter to Health Minister Adrian Dix lodged a complaint that the Ladner ambulance station on Clarence Taylor Crescent was not staffed for an entire evening on Wednesday, Dec. 4.
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Biometic Update
London Ambulance Service is using iPads with biometric fingerprint recognition for NHS healthcare professionals to gain faster, more secure access to patient records, writes ZDNet.
Ambulance-assigned personnel will have access to critical patient information, with a method significantly improved in comparison with the previous authentication system that used card-based two-factor authentication.
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Edmonton Journal
Capital Power announced funding of $1 million in support of the STARS air ambulance fleet renewal project. The air ambulance service’s newest aircraft, the state-of-the-art Airbus H145 helicopter, was on display at the Edmonton International Airport on Wednesday. Capital Power is a North American power producer headquartered in Edmonton.
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CBC News
A paramedic from Selkirk says his private medical transport company is operating within the law to get people to their medical appointments safely, but Manitoba Health and the Paramedics Association of Manitoba warn its messaging is misleading.
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Global News
After an impressive four-decade career with Toronto Paramedic Services, Greg Carter was able to sign off alongside two of his strongest supporters, and closest coworkers, on Thursday.
“Dispatch, ESU Two is now 10-7 at 51 Station. And I just wanted to say good night, and you guys carry on,” Carter calmly said, gently holding on to the radio inside the service’s ambulance bus for the final time recently.
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Metro
Kees Veldboer, 60, bought a fleet of ambulances and uses them to take people to complete their final wishes. He came up with the idea when transferring a patient between hospitals and there was a delay, so Kees asked him where he wanted to go.
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CTV News
A judge has denied a former Northern Lakes College student’s effort to appeal his forced withdrawal from the school’s paramedic program.
The student was asked to leave after a June 20, 2018 confrontation with an Alberta Health Services property manager on his practicum.
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The Peterborough Examiner
Former City of Kawartha Lakes Paramedic Service head Derek Brown will return to court Feb. 13.
Brown, 49, was in Ontario Court of Justice in Lindsay recently where the matter was put over.
Brown is charged with eight counts of fraud under $5,000, eight counts of uttering a forged document and one count of breach of trust.
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CBC News
Amid the global coronavirus outbreak, masks have been flying off shelves in cities across the country and viral videos are sparking concern over paramedics spotted in protective gear.
In one recent instance, video footage from a flight from China to Toronto showed Peel paramedics decked out in various types of masks — including one wearing a full clear-plastic face cover — while transporting a patient off the flight.
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CBC News
Hamilton hospitals are so crowded that it's taking hours for paramedics to offload patients at their doors. That time left waiting is adding up and cost the city more than $6 million last year.
Mike Sanderson, chief of Hamilton Paramedic Service, says overcrowding at hospitals result in wait times of up to five hours for patients in ambulances, and paramedics have to wait with them.
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Stratford Beacon Herald
Through a nearly four-decade career as a paramedic – almost all of it in his Perth County hometown – Jeff Sager has pretty much seen it all.
But what he saw on Aug. 28, 2018, was too much. As a commander, Sager was one of the first emergency responders to arrive at the scene of a horrific crash near Stratford that claimed the lives of two children riding in a minivan back to the Waterloo Region from a late-summer trip to the beach.
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Daily Mail
Paramedics, nurses and pharmacists will be allowed to train-up as doctors in three years under drastic plans to tackle the NHS's staffing crisis.
The Government is hoping to take advantage of freedoms brought by Brexit to enable some medical staff to gain fast-track doctors' qualifications.
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