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.PARAMEDIC NEWS
Canada continues to face a serious and growing trend with escalating numbers of opioid-related poisonings, overdoses and deaths. The Government of Canada reported 17,602 apparent opioid toxicity deaths between January 2016 and June 2020. To address this opioid crisis the Paramedic Association of Canada (PAC), in conjunction with the Canadian Standards Association (CSA Group) under the Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP) delivered by Health Canada, facilitated the development of a new national Standard on the paramedic response to the opioid epidemic.
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| New Standard Published
This communication is to inform you that CSA Group has published CSA Z1650, Paramedic response to the opioid crisis: Education and training across the treatment and care continuum in out-of-hospital and community settings. This standard was developed by the CSA Group Technical Committee on Paramedic Response to Opioids, under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Steering Committee on Health and Well-being. This is the first standard to provide a comprehensive national framework to guide paramedic service organizations in addressing health promotion, prevention, harm reduction, and treatment of opioid use, and overdose in out-of-hospital and community settings. This standard is intended for use by paramedic services organizations and community partners and is available for free view access via the links below:
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Community of Practice Platform LIVE
PAC, in cooperation with CSA Group, has also developed a complimentary peer-to-peer online Community of Practice platform to share standards information, research findings, critical information, and emerging opioid trends with the paramedic community. The purpose of this site is to assist paramedic service organizations and paramedics in making informed decisions regarding how to best address opioid use, poisoning and overdose within the community. To gain access to this platform click here.
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.CHAPTER NEWS
Increased training and education keeping BC paramedics safe
My Powell River Now
The VP of the Ambulance Paramedics of BC says these first responders have a very low COVID-19 transmission rate despite seeing the virus daily. Dave Deines said paramedics have to be extra careful due to their proximity to active COVID-19 cases. They start with doing a self-assessment every day.
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Hamilton paramedics struggling with significant rise in ambulance calls
CBC News
Calls for an ambulance in Hamilton have increased significantly over the past year, and paramedics are feeling the pressure. "We are significantly above where we are, and struggling to keep up with the resources that we have on the road," said Paul Johnson, the city's general manager of healthy and safe communities. Though call volumes dipped in the early days of the pandemic, Johnson said, they've been "above average" ever since.
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County implements Community Paramedicine Program
Black Burn News
Bruce County has implemented a Community Paramedicine Program. Bruce County Paramedic Services is now providing Community Paramedicine until March 31 of this year using Ontario Health (West) LHIN funding. At their meeting recently, the Paramedic Services Committee approved the implementation of the Community Paramedicine Program with just over $123,000 from the LHIN funding, with the hope the province may extend funding for the program.
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Report: Racism within the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service played a role in delaying patient's transport
CTV News
A patient’s emergency medical transport was delayed when two city firefighters refused to help a paramedic who had previously raised concerns about alleged racist social media posts made by members of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, according to the findings of an investigation into respectful workplace complaints. The complaints stem from the emergency response to a 911 call made by a 23-year-old Indigenous woman who was suffering from a self-inflicted stab wound to the neck.
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'Sick and tired of being sick and tired': NAPE outlines effects of staff shortages on health of paramedics
VOCM
aramedics are fighting for better staffing levels in the metro region, and the union that represents them says the situation is having adverse effects on the health of workers. According to NAPE President Jerry Earle, documents provided to government show over 2,000 red alerts have been placed on ambulance services at Eastern Health in the last year. As well, he notes there were over 3,000 hours of offload delays, which equates to a 12 hour Ambulance being off the road every week from Monday to Friday.
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Man charged after allegedly trying to swerve into ambulance responding to a priority call
CTV News
A Cambridge man is facing a number of charges after police say he attempted to drive into an ambulance that was responding to a priority call. According to a news release, the incident happened in the area of Coronation Boulevard and Dundas Street North recently. That's when paramedics were responding to a priority call with their lights and sirens activated. Police said that a driver began following the ambulance "in an aggressive manner" and tried to swerve into it.
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Canadian Rangers assist in first vaccinations in Peawanuck First Nation
NetNewsLedger
Canadian Rangers provided support for a medical team that flew last week into Peawanuck, a remote Cree First Nation near the Hudson Bay Coast, to give the first COVID-19 vaccinations to a community in Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) in the Far North of Ontario. The Federal Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Bill Blair, announced on January 24 that the federal government had approved a request from the Ontario government for members of the Canadian Rangers to support the vaccination program for remote First Nations in NAN.
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National study looks at COVID-19 risk among paramedics
Vancouver Sun
When a paramedic responds to an emergency, there’s no way to maintain physical distancing if it means going into a bedroom of someone with COVID-19 or transporting a patient by ambulance. In those cases, what are the risks of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 between someone in distress and a paramedic at work?
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St. John's paramedics demand action
The Star
The union representing paramedics in St. John’s says that after seven years of protesting lack of staff and a shortage of resources, its members have had enough. A recent protest at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s was sparked largely by a briefing note sent from Eastern Health to the Department of Health three months ago.
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Alberta's chief paramedic blasts 'inaccurate claims' over dispatch consolidation
RDNews Now
Alberta’s chief paramedic is firing back against what he says are “inaccurate claims” about the province’s move to consolidate EMS dispatch in four municipalities. Darren Sandbeck says there is no evidence suggesting the consolidation of EMS dispatch has led to any delays or inappropriate responses in any of the communities where consolidation occurred.
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Paramedic rapid response team kept busy while deployed to Williams Lake
The Williams Lake Tribune
A BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) confirmed the Rapid Response Team that arrived in Williams Lake on Jan. 16 for a six-day deployment responded to several high-level medical emergencies in the community. “Paramedic crews came to the community to support existing paramedics in both the transport of patients to higher levels of care and 9-1-1 medical responses,” said Shannon Miller, BCEHS media spokesperson recently, noting they even attended a maternity call where a baby was born in a vehicle.
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City to clear residential ruts that hung up ambulance
Discover Moose Jaw
Ruts on a residential street that apparently got an ambulance hung up Sunday night were just a quarter-inch over the city's limits for rut depth. Moose Jaw director of public works Darrin Stephanson said it's the first time this year that an emergency vehicle was stuck on a street.
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Ontario taking steps to improve mental health supports for first responders and public safety personnel
Ontario Newsroom
The Ontario government is establishing four new mental health collaborative tables to better support the mental health and well-being of policing, fire, corrections, and paramedic services personnel. The tables will help inform actions to change behaviours that stigmatize those struggling with mental health challenges, achieve a healthier work-life balance, promote mental health resiliency, and build awareness of supports, treatments and recovery options.
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