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Paramedics are often the first on scene in the event of any type of medical emergency in the field and as such face a unique set of risks that are specific to the paramedicine practice. Despite a paramedic’s best intentions in the delivery of emergency care, often times saving lives, you are potentially subjecting yourself to the possibility of a lawsuit or complaint, which may damage your professional reputation.
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Les ambulanciers paramédicaux sont souvent les premiers présents sur place en cas d’urgence médicale, et ils doivent par conséquent relever une série unique de risques propres aux professions paramédicales. Malgré les meilleures intentions des ambulanciers paramédicaux à offrir des soins d’urgence, qui sauvent souvent des vies, ils peuvent faire l’objet d’actions en justice ou de plaintes susceptibles de porter atteinte à leur réputation professionnelle.
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Having now returned home from attending PACE2019 I have given a lot of thought to the conference, it’s value for money, comparison with other conferences I have attended, and whether I would return for a future PACE event. I have also had several questions from staff, peers and managers on what the conference was like. So I thought this might be a useful blog.
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CBC News
It's a snapshot of how emergency services are not supposed to work and front-line staff in Saskatoon say it's endangering lives.
On Sept. 20, Medavie Health fielded 80 emergency calls in a 12-hour period. The demand for ambulances was so high that five additional units were called in to assist the eight vehicles already on the street.
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Ambulance Paramedics and Emergency Dispatchers of BC
BC’s 4,500 Paramedics and Emergency Medical Dispatchers have voted to ratify a new three-year Collective Agreement. The Health Employers Association of BC and the Ambulance Paramedics & Ambulance Dispatchers Bargaining Association of BC reached Tentative Agreement on July 19, 2019.
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Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa paramedics are saluting the “amazing work” by a group of hocker players who used CPR and a defibrillator Tuesday night, Sept. 24, to resuscitate a teammate who’d suffered cardiac arrest.
Emergency responders were called to the RA Centre complex at 8:22 p.m. for an unconscious man at a recreational league game.
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Delta Optimist
More B.C. communities have joined Delta in calling for a change in the 911 dispatch system, saying sick and injured people are waiting too long for an ambulance when fire departments can arrive sooner. Resolutions have been put forward for discussion at this week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention to change the new Clinical Response Model which limits what type of emergency medical calls warrant fire departments being dispatched.
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Saskatchewan
Chances are good you know someone whose life has been positively affected by Saskatchewan’s own winged angels, known better as the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance service. Generations of heroic men and women with the government’s air ambulance service have been flying to the aid of the sick and injured throughout the province for more than 70 years.
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CTV News
A Pierrefonds woman is demanding Urgences Sante explain why it took nearly three hours for an ambulance to collect her husband and to arrive at the hospital.
“I was in panic mode not knowing if my husband was dead, alive…and these guys couldn't be contacted apparently,” Linda Jones Dion told CTV News.
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Welcome to the inaugural Paramedic Research Symposium, held at Paramedicine Across Canada Expo 2019, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sept. 19. First, we would like to thank all of you for your participation at the symposium. We are aware that many of you have travelled a long way to be here with us today. We have attendees, and presenters from all across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the USA and more. Thank you!
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Woodstock Sentinel-Review
When Ron Gillatt woke up from a nightmare late on a February night, he knew something was wrong.
The retired paramedic believed he was trying to put an IV into a patient, saying, “squeeze the arm, the pressure’s going down.” He found himself unconsciously attempting the procedure on his wife, Judith.
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PTBO Today
For the past 40 years Ian McDonald has been a mainstay among Peterborough paramedics, and now he’s calling it a career.
To honour his service, the county and the Peterborough City/County Paramedic Service is presenting him with an Exemplary Service Medal for his service in good conduct and efficiency.
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The Chronicle Herald
It’s Medic Monday, the day set aside in Nova Scotia to honour and celebrate the paramedics who serve the people of our province.
They work long shifts, earn less pay than they deserve in comparison to their police and firefighter colleagues, and are exposed to situations that leave an indelible mark upon their psyche. They’re ordinary people exposed to traumatic events, time after time, day after day, and the stress from those exposures accumulates inside.
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The Chronicle Herald
Paramedics from across Nova Scotia will gather this weekend in Cape Breton for the annual conference.
The Gaelic College in St. Anns will be the host of the seventh annual event organized through the not-for-profit organization, Island Paramedic Alliance.
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Kitchener Today
A pair of paramedics from Waterloo Region will be honoured at the Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs awards dinner in Windsor on Thursday evening, Sept. 26.
Michael Freeman and Heather Germann will receive Emergency Medical Services Exemplary Service Medals, along with over 100 other paramedics from across the province.
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CBC News
A woman who says the STARS air ambulance service is to thank for the fact she's alive today was among the first to take a flight in the newest helicopter to join Saskatchewan's fleet on Wednesday.
Six years ago, Swift Current woman Bonnie Fortin was in critical condition after a C-section. STARS paramedics worked to keep her from losing any more blood while the service flew her to Regina for emergency surgery.
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Sault Online
The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs is concluding its 2019 Annual General Meeting at an Awards Dinner this evening in Windsor where it is recognizing worthy paramedics who have just been awarded the Governor General’s Emergency Medical Services Exemplary Service Medal.
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Manitoulin Exposition
A contingent of 10 Manitoulin-area paramedics and medical professionals recently took part in the annual Ontario Paramedic Ride, a four-day bicycle ride from Toronto to Ottawa raising money for the Canadian Paramedic Memorial Foundation.
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The Lindsay Advocate
On Monday, Sept. 23, Kawartha Lakes Paramedic Service began the first day of the three-month Community Paramedic Pilot program. The program, which was approved by Council in February, was created to help reduce patient re-admission with a focus on seniors at Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay.
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Orillia Matters
After six years of service, a former County of Simcoe Paramedic Services ambulance will continue to serve local residents as a patient transportation vehicle for the Living Wish Foundation. During the donation presentation this morning at the Simcoe County Administration building in Midhurst, Cal Patterson, a former county warden and board member for the Living Wish Foundation, received the keys from Warden George Cornell.
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Ottawa Citizen
Giving blood is giving life, Ed Byers tells it, and as a paramedic for more than 30 years, he would know.
About the good saves, about the terrible turns, like the last call he ever answered in April 2018 — to his own house — the call that took him off the road for good.
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The Cornwall Seeker
The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs concluded its 2019 Annual General Meeting at an Awards Dinner recognizing worthy paramedics awarded the Governor General’s Emergency Medical Services Exemplary Service Medal.
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LAD Bible
The ambulance of the future that promises to 'bring the hospital to the patients' has been seen out on the streets of the UK for the first time.
It's pretty tech, too. The futuristic ambulance has been launched by International Ambulances and — let's be honest — it looks like a spacecraft.
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