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PAC
On Sunday, Sept. 22, the Paramedic Association of Canada held their Annual General Meeting in Winnipeg Manitoba. Included in the agenda was the election for the President of PAC. The Paramedic Association of Canada is pleased to announce Dave Deines was elected to a three-year term as president.
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CTV News
Leaders in paramedic practice from across Canada are here in Winnipeg for an expo.
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APTN News
More than 500 paramedics from across Canada gathered in Winnipeg for the third bi-annual convention aimed at testing strength and endurance.
But it’s also an opportunity to network — and bring new ideas around heath care.
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CTV News
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CityNews Winnipeg
Paramedics from all over the world are in Winnipeg to compete in what many say could be called the paramedic Olympics. Rachel CrowSpreadingWings finds out what makes this year stand out from the rest.
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Global News
500 paramedics from across the world meet up in Winnipeg for the Paramedicine Across Canada conference.
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Revelstoke Review
BC Emergency Health Services honoured four Revelstoke residents last week for performing CPR on a stranger and potentially saving his life.
“If more people acted like you, deaths for cardiac arrest could drop significantly,” said Kirk Pitaoulis, unit chief for Revelstoke Ambulance Service.
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CBC News
Changes are coming to B.C.'s 911 system, after an external investigation ordered by B.C.'s health minister found response delays "possibly influenced" the death of a Vancouver woman.
In November, Tracey Gundersen, 56 — a Downtown Eastside resident with a drug addiction — called 911 after she started to hemorrhage.
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MuskokaONline.com
On the frontlines of the war against opioid abuse, Muskoka’s paramedics are seeing staggering increases so far this year.
During the most recent District of Muskoka council meeting, councillors received an update on the opioid situation in Muskoka from Stuart McKinnon of Muskoka Paramedic Services and the news was troubling.
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Ottawa Citizen
Did you know that there are more than 1,200 items in an Ottawa Paramedic Service ambulance?
And that’s not including the pair of medics inside.
The service joined first responders around the world by sharing the image with the hashtag #TetrisChallenge Sunday.
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CTV News
Saskatoon paramedic Jason Trask has been named “Paramedic of the Year” by the Paramedic Association of Canada.
"It’s very humbling to get the recognition," said Trask, who has been working as a paramedic for 22 years.
Trask was the first paramedic in Saskatchewan to receive critical care paramedicine distinction.
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Minden Times
The Haliburton County Paramedics have passed their three-year service review with compliments from the health ministry.
Paramedic chief Tim Waite told members of the county’s EMS advisory committee during a Sept. 10 meeting that he was pleased with the results of the inspection, completed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
“Very complimentary, in my opinion, an extremely successful review,” Waite told councillors.
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CBC News
Minutes after a collision with a car flipped a Saint John ambulance on its side, the two paramedics inside were already climbing out to make sure the driver of the car wasn't hurt.
"It's important to us to make sure — even though it was the ambulance that was involved in the collision — that they still feel safe," said Brittany Gionet, one of the paramedics.
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Open Access Emergency Medicine
Inadequate relief of pain is common in prehospital and hospital emergency department settings. We investigated pain treatments and timelines in patients receiving pre-hospital and hospital ED care to provide insight into potential approaches to reduce the burden of trauma-related pain.
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CTV News
Ornge Air Ambulance will no longer be landing on the helipad at University Hospital in London.
In a statement issued to CTV News Sunday evening, Director of Communications James MacDonald confirmed that air ambulance patient transport into University Hospital has been suspended.
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The Squamish Chief
A particularly gratifying mission for Miles Randell is one that he says gave a man a second chance at being able to stand on his feet.
"We were told we were instrumental in allowing him to walk again," said Randell, who leads a Squamish-based rescue outfit known as Technical Evacuation Advanced Aero Medical, or TEAAM.
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Halifax Today
The union representing paramedics across the province has finished negotiations with its employer.
"There's some outstanding issues but we've finished up negotiations," says Michael Nickerson, president of IUOE Local 727, which represents over 1,000 paramedics in the province.
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CBC News
UPEI's paramedicine program has quadrupled in class size since last year. The degree program was introduced in 2017 by Dr. Trevor Jain, an emergency room physician at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and one of the instructors.
It's aimed at people thinking about a career as a paramedic, or for those already working in the industry and wanting to explore other opportunities.
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Prairire Post
Great Plains College is pleased to announce the addition of the Primary Care Paramedic certificate to its Swift Current Campus programming for the 2020-21 academic year. The part-time certificate program is set to begin September 2020.
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Orillia Matters
The County of Simcoe breathes new life into a decommissioned paramedic services vehicle through its donation to The Living Wish Foundation.
Every year, 43 County ambulances clock up more than three-million kilometres responding to calls across 16 member municipalities and separated cities of Barrie and Orillia.
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Global News
Labour unions representing paramedics and dispatchers from the Maritimes are meeting in Prince Edward Island to discuss the issues front-line workers are facing in their communities.
The gathering marks the second annual Maritime Paramedic/Dispatcher Labour Union Conference and will give representatives from each province the opportunity to highlight issues in their respective regions.
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CBC News
Some fire departments in Nova Scotia are now spending more time helping people in medical distress than they are fighting fires, as the scope of duties firefighters perform continues to expand.
Over the years, responding to everything from heart attacks to injuries caused by car accidents has gradually become an essential part of a firefighter's work.
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The Chatham Daily News
The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance will host a demonstration of a patient decontamination system on Tuesday morning.
The demonstration will be held in partnership with Harold Marcus Ltd., Chatham-Kent Emergency Medical Services, the Chatham-Kent Police Service and the Chatham-Kent Fire and Emergency Service.
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iMore
Apple Watch's fall detection, as well as its other emergency features, has helped another person get emergency help when they needed it most. Reported by 9to5Mac, Bob Burdett is a mountain biker who, on September 20th, was trying to meet his son to hit the trail together for awhile.
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