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CSA Communities
This standard specifies requirements to facilitate the application of ergonomics into ambulance design and describes a user-centered design (UCD) process for establishing additional ergonomic requirements, as necessary. The objective of applying ergonomics is to optimize overall system performance by ensuring human performance and safety requirements are balanced with engineering and design requirements. It is intended to be used by government and regulatory authorities, manufacturers and distributors of ambulances, distributors of equipment, paramedics, paramedic organizations, and other interested parties.
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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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CTV News
A Guelph man is facing charges after he allegedly assaulted a paramedic on Friday.
Police say the 45-year-old man was yelling threats at paramedics, and assaulted one of the attendants after he entered the ambulance.
The attendant was treating a patient when they were assaulted, according to police.
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Guelph Today
On Aug. 2, at 8:30 p.m., officers were called to an address on Waterloo Ave after an EMS (paramedic) of the Guelph Wellington Emergency Medical Services was assaulted.
Investigation revealed that while (paramedics) were providing treatment to a patient, an unrelated male was heard yelling at them.
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Ottawa Citizen
Ontario legislators looking to solve the problem of so-called “hallway medicine” should pay attention to Renfrew County’s community paramedics. After all, health experts from as far away as Australia, the Netherlands and even Turkey are closely studying their work.
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CFRA-FM
Joining Dahlia on the Goods, paramedic Tammy Dupuis discusses the home visits Ottawa now provides to residents, what would warrant such a visit, and the difference they're making with the elderly population.
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PortageOnline
GeoPosting has been utilized for ambulances across the province in efforts to make the service more efficient.
The plan was kicked into effect in 2017 when Shared Health was given the responsibility for ambulance dispatches in Manitoba. Communications specialist Sara Locke explains the system receives 9-1-1 calls issued outside of Winnipeg and triages them. Paramedics are then dispatched to the location of the call.
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CTV News
Four ambulances left the Greater Toronto Area on Tuesday for the northernmost parts of Canada, where they are needed to help get people not to the hospital- but to the airport.
The ambulances, donated by Peel Regional Paramedic Services, will be used in four communities in Nunavut.
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Journal of High Threat & Austere Medicine
The Australian Tactical Medical
Association recognised the need
for a readily available, open source of
knowledge in the areas of high threat and
austere medicine. The Journal of High
Threat and Austere Medicine was
created to contribute to this, as a source of
relevant information. As such, the Journal
has commenced an irregular series,
attempting to identify key pieces of
knowledge which should be more readily
available to tactical medical responders.
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BMJ Open
The aim was to describe time consumption when patients are non-conveyed by the ambulance service. Ambulance assignments have increased over time worldwide and 16-31 per cent of the care seekers encountered by the ambulance service have been assessed as not being in need of its services.
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Calgary Herald
Writer, director and performance artist JC Charlton was moved to write and direct I am Not the Patient when one of his best friends unburdened himself to Charlton.
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CBC News
A Dartmouth, N.S., woman is furious after an ambulance carrying her grandmother in the midst of a medical crisis was stalled arriving to the Dartmouth General Hospital on Thursday because it couldn't get into its parking lot.
Rachael MacCorquodale was in a vehicle following the ambulance when they arrived on the property and was stunned by what she saw.
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CBC News
It's a fifteen-year-long winning streak.
The entire graduating class of Cambrian College's paramedic program has passed their provincial certification tests.
That means they're not only ready to work, but they're entering the field at the top of their class.
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Thompson Citizen
Manitoba’s air ambulance service has acquired a new jet on an interim basis while working on a request for proposals to select a long-term private contract, the Winnipeg Sun reported.
The plane is a Learjet 45 and was expected to be ready for Lifeflight service to communities more than 200 kilometres away from Winnipeg as of the last weekend of July.
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The Sudbury Star
For the 15th year in a row, graduates from the College’s paramedic program scored a 100 per cent pass rate on the provincial paramedic certification exam. The exam allows graduates to work as paramedics in Ontario.
“I’m so proud of every student in our program this year,” Derek McKinnon, professor and coordinator of Cambrian’s paramedic program, says in a release.
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