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Please join us as we welcome colleagues from across Canada and around the world to Paramedicine Across Canada Expo 2019 with a Night Market Reception, sponsored by Public Safety Group. There will be live music featuring local musicians (who are also paramedics!), busker entertainment — and special guests you do not want to miss!
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On Friday, Sept. 20, the Paramedic Association of Canada and the Paramedicine Across Canada Expo will host the Excellence in Paramedicine Awards Dinner at the iconic Metropolitan Entertainment Centre in downtown Winnipeg.
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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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CBC News
Paramedics filled a Calgary courtroom recently to show support for one of their own who was the victim of an alleged assault on the job — something they say happens every day.
John Goumas is on trial for assault causing bodily harm.
Goumas is accused of becoming aggressive when he woke up after being unconscious. Paramedic Olivia Chan suffered a torn rotator cuff when she fell trying to get away from Goumas, who had lunged at her.
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CBC News
Kamloops is the first B.C. city to take part in a trial by national non-profit Pallium Canada, which gives paramedics palliative care training.
The training is meant to reduce hospital visits for patients with life-limiting diseases by giving paramedics tools to treat people at home — if it's within the patient's care plan, explained Renee Gilroy, an advanced care paramedic with B.C. Ambulance.
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Humboldt Journal
Finding rural locations Isn't always straightforward for ambulance drivers. They juggle RM maps and respond to directions like, “Take the second grid road north four miles, turn left at the red barn.”
All that will change thanks to global positioning system (GPS) technology recently pilot-tested by the Humboldt and District Ambulance Service in co-operation with Central Plains Health District from June 8 to Aug. 9.
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Winnipeg Free Press
In the battle against methamphetamine, knowledge will ultimately be the key to getting the upper hand. Unfortunately, the data about meth, a drug that varies wildly in its formulation and effects, is lacking. That may be changing, however, thanks to a groundbreaking study undertaken by the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service and Shared Health that could help the health-care system screen patients and design more effective treatment options.
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CBC News
Just as Brian Pallister finished standing in front of reporters and cameras, promising to hire 200 more nurses if re-elected as Manitoba premier next month, the NDP released new numbers that appear to show a reduction in the amount of nursing and health care aide positions at Winnipeg hospitals.
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Ottawa Citizen
“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.
Makkos, 82, is the third client the community paramedic has seen this morning.
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CBC News
Paramedics are voicing their concerns to the Newfoundland and Labrador government about delays in patients being admitted to emergency departments in St. John's.
Those long waits are keeping their ambulances from responding to calls — for potentially hours at a time.
The issue is outlined in partially-redacted Department of Health and Community Services briefing materials from June, that CBC News obtained through access to information.
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Canadian Union of Public Employees
CUPE 873 member Kelly Budway loves her job as an ambulance paramedic. Since being trained in emergency medical response and joining the BC Ambulance Service in 2011 after more than a decade as a flight attendant, she has never looked back.
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Traumatic spinal cord injury is a relatively rare injury in Denmark but may result in serious neurological consequences. For decades, prehospital spinal stabilisation with a rigid cervical collar and a hard backboard has been considered to be the most appropriate procedure to prevent secondary spinal cord injuries during patient transportation. However, the procedure has been questioned in recent years, due to the lack of high-quality studies supporting its efficacy.
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International Paramedic Practice
Paramedics occupy an ever-increasing role within healthcare and the development of this role should be informed by the voice of patients. This systematic literature review seeks to explore patient experience during a paramedic intervention. Using a "state of the art" review style, a systematic search was conducted of the literature published between 2006 and 2018.
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BMJ Open Quality
Paediatric resuscitation is highly stressful, technically challenging and infrequently performed by paramedics. Length-based equipment selection, weight-based medication dosing and less familiar paediatric clinical scenarios create high cognitive load. Our project aimed to decrease cognitive load and increase paramedic comfort by providing standardised paediatric resuscitation cards across an entire Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system.
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Kenora Online
The City of Kenora is seeing a 40 per cent increase in calls for land ambulance services over the last year.
"We can't really pinpoint any specific group of people or type of call. We just know the increase is in the City of Kenora itself," says Andrew Tickner, director for Northwest EMS.
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The Globe and Mail
On a Saturday afternoon at the Circle K, a shoplifter ignores the convenience store clerk’s pleas to stop stealing. Customers tackle him and call 911.
Soon a police officer is in the parking lot, using gloved hands to frisk the man. But the arrest pauses when the suspect confesses to using drugs. Now he’s a more pressing problem for the paramedics.
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CBC News
Health Minister Randy Delorey has ordered a review of the case of an Annapolis Valley man who died in hospital while waiting for an ambulance transfer.
David Benedict died in Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton, N.S., earlier this month from a brain bleed while he was waiting to be taken to Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville for a CT scan and lumbar puncture.
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Dryden Now
Henry Wall of the district services board is happy to hear some good news. To be specific, he's eager to see more funding will be available for land ambulance service.
"It was certainly very welcome news at AMO, to have both the premier and the minister for municipal affairs make the announcement to delegates," Wall said, referring to last week's conference for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.
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CTV News
Budget cuts to the Calgary Homeless Foundation could put the future of the DOAP Team at risk, officials said recently.
A letter posted to social media by Alpha House executive director Kathy Christiansen says the Calgary Homeless Foundation, which funds the Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership, or DOAP Team, received an eight per cent cut in provincial funding which “is raising questions about the future of our DOAP Team and the implications for the people we serve and our broader community.”
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ScienceDaily
Law enforcement K-9s face the same dangers their human handlers confront. Recognizing a gap in care for law enforcement K-9s injured on the job, a team of veterinarians, emergency medical services experts and canine handlers has developed protocols for emergency medical service personnel who may be called upon to help treat and transport the injured dogs.
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Toronto Sun
Laura Grant played a role in saving hundreds of lives.
The 57-year-old Burlington woman was a long-serving and beloved fixture as a dispatcher at the Mississauga Central Ambulance Communication Centre (CACC.)
The centre provides EMS dispatch services to Peel and Halton.
At one time, Grant had also been a paramedic.
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