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PAC
The Paramedic Association of Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of the Paramedic Association of Canada Awards of Excellence for 2020. These awards will be presented at our Awards Ceremony as part of our Paramedics on the Hill Advocacy Day in Ottawa on April 25. We congratulate the following recipients and recognize their outstanding contributions to the Paramedic profession, the patients and communities they serve.
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Defence Research Development Canada, Centre for Security Science
The Defence Research Development Canada, Centre for Security Science has a three-year interchange assignment Portfolio Manager, Paramedic Services position. DRDC CSS leads the Canadian Safety and Security Program a government of Canada approved whole of government program which has been allocated $43.5 million dollars annually to strengthen Canada’s ability to anticipate, prevent/mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters, serious accidents, crime and terrorism through the convergence of science and technology with policy, operations and intelligence.
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City of Ottawa
This webinar is intended for all healthcare professionals caring for people with heart conditions, stroke or vascular cognitive impairment across all settings and stages of care; system leaders and funders involved in planning and service delivery; researchers; Heart & Stroke employees; and students from across health-related disciplines. Members of the public, particularly those living or caring for someone with related health conditions, may also find this information helpful.
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Ottawa Citizen
Delays in transferring patients from paramedics to hospital staff’s care had “over 18” ambulances and crews stalled at the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus recently, the Professional Paramedic Association of Ottawa said.
The paramedic units from across Eastern Ontario were “stuck inside (and) outside” managing the emergency-room bound patients, the association shared via social media.
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Urgences-santé via YouTube
Découvrez le seul centre de gestion des opérations dans le milieu du préhospitalier au Canada!
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Whitehorse Daily Star
Yukon College is putting on a unique course this week in Watson Lake, and at the end of March in Whitehorse.
The instructor, former Yukoner Michael Swainson, is in the territory this month to deliver courses for the Northern Institute of Social Justice at the college.
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CBC News
A Gimli man has found the stranger who stepped in and saved his life after he had a heart attack while standing in line at an airport.
Stefan Tergesen, 58, ran to his gate and was standing in line for a flight to India at Toronto Pearson International Airport in January.
He felt a bit dizzy and collapsed.
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Renfrew Today
The County of Renfrew has received an in depth report on Paramedic Services. At the county council meeting last week (Feb. 26th) staff and elected representatives were told about some of the challenges local paramedics are facing by ApexPro consultant Marvin Rubenstein. The Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus tasked Rubenstein to look paramedic services in the region following changes announced last year by the provincial government that would see a reduction from 59 to 10 paramedic services.
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CTV News
Public access defibrillators are being credited with helping to save the lives of three people in Ottawa over the past six days.
Ottawa Paramedics say between last Friday and Wednesday morning, bystanders used a PAD to treat three patients who went into cardiac arrest in a public place.
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Toronto Sun
Police are investigating after a green laser strike injured a pilot and paramedic aboard a Ornge air ambulance helicopter.
The aircraft had just dropped off a patient at the Hospital for Sick Children on Feb. 15 just before 9 p.m. and was heading back to its base at Billy Bishop Airport when it was struck by the laser in the area of Richmond and Sherbourne Sts., said Ornge spokesman Joshua McNamara.
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Le Journal de Québec
Pour réchauffer le jeune garçon de 8 ans, Dino Émond est sorti du protocole en appliquant la méthode kangourou, c'est-à-dire en faisant du contact peau à peau avec l'enfant. Depuis, il a fait face à une enquête et souffre d'un syndrome de stress post-traumatique.
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Hamilton News
There will be additional fire service for Waterdown and upper Stoney Creek and expanded paramedic service across the city, but Hamiltonians will have to pay extra to park in their downtowns starting this summer.
In a wide-ranging and in some cases testy discussion during the March 2 budget meeting, councillors managed to edge the average tax increase for 2020 to just below three per cent from 3.2 per cent a week ago.
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CBC News
Paramedics looking to upgrade their skill level will no longer have to leave Newfoundland and Labrador for training.
The provincial government announced recently it is adding an advanced-care paramedicine program at the College of the North Atlantic in St. John's and Stephenville.
The St. John's campus will have 12 seats available this fall, and add another 12 in 2021. Stephenville will also have 12 seats available in the fall of 2021.
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Burnaby Now
The union that represents ambulance workers is warning that the planned closure of the lone ambulance station in North Burnaby will mean slower response times for patients.
B.C. Emergency Health Services told crews last week they were being moved from Station 248 on Douglas Road near Boundary Road to a new station, Station 240, built last year at 5901 Delesalle St. in the Royal Oak area.
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Quinte News
Hastings-Quinte paramedics are poised to take part in another research study.
Chief of Paramedics Doug Socha tells Quinte News it is a feasibility study for training paramedics in the administration of Penthrox, through inhalation, for emergency pain relief in conscious adult patients.
It is being carried out by Dr. Michael Austin of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
Socha says the pain control is normally done by using needles.
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The Kingston Whig-Standard
The union representing a majority of Ontario paramedics released a report today, detailing rising call volume and ambulance shortages in 22 regions. CUPE submitted Freedom of Information requests in all municipalities where it represents paramedics and dispatchers, in order to track “code zeros” – times when no ambulance is available to respond to emergency calls.
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Muskoka Region
It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen, says Muskoka Paramedic Services.
When police charged a patient picked up in Sundridge with assault on a paramedic on Feb. 4, it raised the question: is violence a common workplace hazard for paramedics?
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Barrie 360
Around 900 defibrillators have been registered with the County of Simcoe’s Public Access Defibrillator Program, but spokesperson Kim Oxley says there are quite a few out there in buildings they don’t know about.
A defibrillator is used to help restart the heart of a person who has gone into cardiac arrest.
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Collingwood Today
Despite a low population density and a large geographical area, Grey County paramedics have hit their required response time performance targets for 2019.
“We are well within our targets and above average in some areas,” said Kevin McNab, director of paramedic services for Grey County, during a presentation to Grey County Council on Feb. 28.
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Echo Live
Paramedics in Cork are to expand their response to the coronavirus outbreak by providing in home testing for COVID-19 where necessary.
Last night, the National Public Health Emergency Team announced that the HSE was moving to a community testing model for assessment and investigation of suspect cases.
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CTV News
An eight-day test of stamina that spanned the length of Vancouver Island concluded in B.C.'s capital city on Sunday.
Eight runners — all of them military personnel, first responders or spouses of those who serve – hit the pavement on Feb. 23 for the seventh annual Wounded Warrior Run, a fundraiser for Wounded Warriors Canada that saw them run 600 kilometres to increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Khaleej Times
Hasan Al Hosani is thrilled about his job as the first Emirati flight paramedic, a dangerous one, which helps him save lives of people.
"I am the first Emirati paramedic at Abu Dhabi Aviation and National Search and Rescue Centre. My missions include those at sea and land, and medical evacuation - which make the most cases every month. Many are afraid of this job but I think there is risk in every job," Al Hosani told Khaleej Times during an event organised by the NSRC in Abu Dhabi.
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Global News
A Peterborough woman has been charged with assault following an incident involving a paramedic on Sunday.
The Peterborough Police Service says around 4:30 p.m. the woman had been transported to Peterborough Regional Health Centre by Peterborough County-City Paramedics.
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Calgary Herald
Increasing call volumes and off-loading delays at hospitals are creating ambulance shortages, the union representing paramedics with 22 municipal services in Ontario said, calling for more funding to address the situation.
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CHLK-FM
Congratulations to Travis Mellema who has been appointed Chief, Lanark County Paramedic Service effective March 2. Travis joined LCPS as a Primary Care Paramedic in May 2005 and has been Deputy Chief of Operations, Clinical Performance Management and Professional Standards since May 2017. He has also been a Facilitator/Educator with the Regional Paramedic Program of Eastern Ontario since 2011.
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Le Placoteux
Les paramédics de La Pocatière joignent leur voix à ceux de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli pour signifier leur impatience quant au règlement par le gouvernement provincial de l’enjeu des horaires de faction qui touche ici les 14 ambulanciers employés d’Ambulance Chouinard. Le propriétaire de l’entreprise et le président du syndicat réclament rien de moins que leur abolition pure et simple.
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Nanaimo News Bulletin
The 2020 Wounded Warrior Run team arrived in Nanaimo this week on their mission to help soldiers and emergency responders deal with mental trauma suffered in combat and experienced on the job.
On the team of eight runners this year is Mark Blachuras, a B.C. Ambulance Service dispatcher who suffered stress from an emergency call he took a little over a year ago, not long after he moved to Nanaimo.
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