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CSA Group
CSA Group is pleased to announce that the following new CSA Standard, Paramedic response to the opioid crisis: Education and training across the treatment and care continuum in out-of-hospital and community settings, is now open for Public Review until April 14, 2020 at the following link: https://publicreview.csa.ca/Home/Details/3775.
This Standard provides a Framework for the Paramedic Service Organization’s (PSO) response to the opioid crisis. The Framework provides practical guidance on how to address opioid use in the out-of-hospital setting, including caring for patients during a poisoning or overdose, as well as tracking the crisis across paramedic service organizations.
For any additional questions, please contact, Sayward Fetterly.
Note: The CSA Public Review page requires a different login from the CSA Communities of Interest login. If you have not previously accessed the public review platform you will need to create a new (no-fee) account. All public review comments will be considered by the Technical Committee in advance of the publication of the standard.
Canadian Blood Services
Canadian Blood Services is recruiting for Regular Part-Time Drivers to join our Logistics Teams across Canada!
As a driver with Canadian Blood Services, you will be responsible for transporting blood products, equipment, supplies and staff/volunteers. You will also assist in blood donor clinic set-up and dismantling, as well as other clinic team duties as assigned. Work is performed in a regulated environment and in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
As a driver with Canadian Blood Services, you will need:
- A valid Provincial Truck License (Class D- Ontario; Class 4)
- To be available to work all shifts including days, evenings, overnights and weekends
- A minimum 24 months verifiable professional driving experience in the last three years.
Please visit our Careers page for detailed postings and to apply.
If you have any questions, please contact Marie Imber, Talent Acquisition Specialist, Canadian Blood Services at [email protected].
Travel Weekly
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. said it would offer of complimentary cruises to emergency responders in Australia and the U.S. and, later, China, using its ships previously scheduled to sail in China and Asia.
"When things go wrong, this is a company that wants to find a way to help," Fain said in a statement. "At Royal Caribbean, we consider ourselves fortunate to be able to use our ships in a positive way during difficult times.
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Nexstar via KTXL-TV
911 dispatchers experience some of the same trauma as first responders, but many of them don’t have the same access to trauma resources or training.
Margie Gemende and Kristine Harnes know what it’s like to talk to strangers through life and death situations – both were 911 dispatchers and they say the work takes an emotional toll.
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CKOM-AM
According to Medavie Health Services – West, which provides ambulance services to Saskatoon and area, there are many reasons that response times haven’t hit the targets it would like to see.
Gerry Schriemer is the Chief Operating Officer for Medavie. He said it can be anything from call volumes to spikes in calls, to paramedics being tied up with a patient they’ve transported to the hospital and are waiting for a bed to be released.
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La Coopérative des techniciens ambulanciers de la Montérégie CETAM
La CETAM est intervenue aujourd’hui sur le carambolage de l’autoroute 15 (route 132) à la hauteur de La Prairie. Avec environ 200 véhicules d’impliqués, nos équipes (une vingtaine de paramédics et officiers) ont travaillés d’arrache-pied pour secourir et sécuriser un maximum de gens. Deux paramédics de la CETAM étaient même au coeur du carambolage survenu autour de 13h30.
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Seaway News
Mayor Bernadette Clement posted a video on her social media last night explaining that she was aware of the situation and was working to get more inforemation.
“I have been spending the last several hours reaching out getting as much information as possible,” Clement said. “I’ve been in touch with the federal representatives and the MP mostly to get assistance in terms of getting more information.
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Estevan Mercury
Twenty-four students at the Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) are learning more about the work of first responders in the community.
Emergency services response training 10 is being offered at ECS for the first time this semester. It has been offered in Weyburn for the past couple of years, and has also happened elsewhere in the province.
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Blackburn News
If you plan on going to the Windsor Spitfires game against the London Knights Thursday at the WFCU Centre, you will help support an organization that helps First Responders in crisis.
Since November 2018, Boots on the Ground has fielded over 400 calls from across Canada and the U.S. and from Windsor-Essex too.
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Radio-Canada
Le ministre de la Santé du Nouveau-Brunswick soutient que la province veut faire appel à davantage de personnel paramédical spécialisé dans les soins avancés, à la suite de la restructuration des six hôpitaux ruraux annoncée cette semaine par les réseaux de santé provinciaux.
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CBC News
Gregg Lowe was a healthy 28-year-old when he finished Toronto's Scotiabank Marathon in 2016 and suddenly collapsed.
"I had cardiac arrest," Lowe says.
Now 32 and working as an actor, Lowe is thankful Toronto paramedics saw it happen and got to him right away.
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Red Deer Advocate
Ian Burgess had less than five seconds to avoid what could have been a horrific high-speed, head-on collision on Highway 2 early Monday morning, Feb. 17.
The paramedic credits his emergency driver training for helping him react instantly and avoid slamming head on into another vehicle, its lights out, barrelling south in the northbound lanes of the highway just outside Red Deer, near the bridge over the river, at about 4:15 a.m.
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Radio-Canada
Les ambulanciers de la Minganie dénoncent le manque d'employés dans la région, qui met la population en danger, selon eux.
Seulement huit des seize postes d’ambulanciers qui sont nécessaires pour assurer un service en tout temps sur tout le territoire de Minganie sont présentement occupés, selon la Fédération des employés du préhospitalier du Québec.
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Global News
As the saying goes, “it takes a village …”
That is certainly true of how a couple of paramedics, a doughnut shop owner and a mother giving birth in a parking lot have now formed a family bond.
“Hello! Can I hug you?” says young mother Deb Darling.
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Global News
People are reacting to the health care changes announced by the New Brunswick government and its regional health authorities, which would, in part, see the nightly closure of six rural ERs across the province.
While the plan to reform health care has faced backlash in some communities, there is a wide range of concerns and comments.
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CBC News
Paramedics in Saskatoon and Regina are having a hard time keeping up with the growing number of emergency calls.
Data obtained by CBC shows ambulance services are often taking too long to respond to life-threatening crises.
Ambulance services in both Saskatoon and Regina say they're falling short because they simply don't have enough ambulances to keep up.
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Cambs Times
This is the first time paramedic students will benefit from additional NHS funding while at university, as they were not included in the old bursary scheme.
The £5,000 annual maintenance grant will not need to be paid back and will be in addition to student loans.
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CBC News
Paramedics across the province are cautious and concerned about the role they will play when six emergency rooms in rural hospitals close overnight, and ambulances will be required to take medical emergencies to hospitals in bigger centres.
"The paramedic system in this province is fragile," said Chris Hood, executive director of the Paramedics Association of New Brunswick.
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CBC News
Amid reports that there have been dozens of drug overdoses in Regina so far this year, a paramedic is urging drug users to put their concerns about police aside and get the urgent medical attention they need. The plea from Darren Tanzell, an advanced care paramedic, comes after at least 20 drug overdoses in one blur of a weekend earlier this month.
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News 1130
With no end in sight to the ongoing protests involving those who say they support some of the hereditary chiefs from the Wet’suwet’en First Nation who are opposed to the Coastal GasLink pipeline project in northern BC, some are worried about the effects the demonstrations are having on day-to-day operations around the Lower Mainland.
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The Irish Times
A U.K.-based consultant cardiologist who has spent decades saving the lives of others had his own life saved by paramedics at Dublin Airport after suffering a heart attack on a flight from Manchester.
Dr Farqad Alamgir was travelling to Ireland recently where he works in a number of hospitals when he took ill. He was initially tended to by an Aer Lingus staff member who administered CPR until airport police and fire service responders arrived.
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CBC News
A program led by paramedics in Thunder Bay is helping to keep people from unnecessarily ending up in hospital.
The emergency department avoidance program started as a six-month pilot project that ran from October 2018 through the end of March 2019, with funding from the North West Local Health Integration Network.
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