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The Paramedic Association of Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of the Paramedic Association of Canada Awards of Excellence for 2019. These awards will presented during the Paramedics Across Canada Expo 2019 conference Gala Event in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Sept. 20. We congratulate the following recipients and recognize their outstanding contributions to the Paramedic profession, the patients and communities they serve:
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EMS1.com
At the Paramedicine Across Canada Expo 2019 conference, attendees will have the opportunity to listen to several experts speak about advances in emergency services medicine. From new technology to non-traditional paramedic care and leadership practices, PACE 2019 plans to offer a variety of diverse sessions about prehospital care.
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In response to a growing number of requests, Paramedicine Across Canada Expo has agreed to offer a SINGLE DAY REGISTRATION. This offer is to meet a demand for those who’s shifts fall between the conference dates or who have other commitments.
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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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Mississauga.com
In the last 30 years, the paramedicine profession has changed dramatically from a more singular role of first aider/ambulance driver to working in an emergency room on wheels.
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CBC News
Saskatoon's murder rate can sometimes be determined by what happens in the compact two-by-five metre space in the back of a Medavie Health Services ambulance.
"The police have mentioned over the years that, based on what they've seen for injury rates, they believe our murder rate would be much higher if it wasn't for the skill of our paramedics," said advanced care paramedic Tim Hillier.
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CBC News
City police say they are trying to get to the bottom of allegations one of their officers snapped a photo of a man who appeared to be unresponsive while a first-responder crew was helping him.
Justin Highway, whose photo of the immediate aftermath has attracted wide attention online, says the officer took the photo as the unresponsive man rested his head on the shoulder of an emergency crew member.
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CTV News
Thousands of tourists will walk through the Vancouver cruise ship terminal this weekend as they finish or start their trips. Seven cruise ships will arrive at Canada Place over the weekend.
The city's paramedic bike squad tells CTV News that means more calls.
"You get this huge influx of four ships coming in with these ships having thousands of people," said Troy Gienger, one of the members of the bike squad. "We've been fairly busy."
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The Sault Star
For Virginia Gamble, the waiting was the hardest part.
Torture, in fact, as the Sault Ste. Marie woman and another relative waited an hour and 45-minutes for emergency medical services personnel to respond after Gamble’s elderly aunt took a spill in Swiss Chalet, leaving the 91-year-old with a double break in her right hip and in “excruciating” pain.
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The Associated Press via JEMS
Authorities in Canada say a carbon monoxide leak at a hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba has sent 46 people to the hospital, with at least 15 of them in critical condition.
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Radio-Canada
Le cabinet de la ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux, Danielle McCann, se dit ouvert à « analyser différentes avenues » pour mieux desservir les patients en région. Québec a fait cette déclaration mardi en réponse à la publication d’une étude de l'Université Laval indiquant que les risques de mortalité à la suite d’un traumatisme physique étaient trois fois plus élevés en milieu rural.
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International Paramedic Practice
Paramedics are known for their role in prehospital emergency medical services. In response to healthcare system overcrowding, and increased demands on emergency departments, roles for paramedics have emerged in hospitals.
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Australasian Journal of Paramedicine
Research shows that ambulance personnel can find it challenging to withhold or terminate resuscitation and manage patient death in the field. This scoping review provides a synthesis of published research that has addressed three main questions. Each relates to ambulance personnel enacting decisions to withhold or terminate resuscitation and manage patient death: How are they prepare; what supports and coping strategies are utilised; and what preparation and support needs have been identified?
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EMS1.com
Dr. Brian J. Maguire writes:
I recently had the pleasure of presenting two educational sessions in London. The first, for the UK College of Paramedics, focused on opportunities for EMS personnel to reduce risks, the second, for the UK Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, National Education Network for Ambulance Services, focused on occupational risks from the perspectives of educators and administrators.
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CTV News
In the male-dominated world of first responders’ work, women are often underrepresented in roles such as police officers, firefighters and paramedics. However, one camp is changing the way women see themselves in such career paths.
Established in 2006, Camp Courage is an eight-day-long camp which introduces young women ages 15-19 to careers as first responders. With camp wrapping up over the weekend, founder and Halifax Fire Capt. Andrea Speranza said this year’s 24 participants are excited to pursue careers they might have never considered.
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My Muskoka Now
An ambulance was stolen in Parry Sound today.
According to a notice from the West Parry Sound Health Centre, the vehicle was stolen this morning, just before noon, from the ambulance base located adjacent to the centre.
“Our Emergency Medical Services and Ambulance Communication Services staff responded immediately and prompt attention was provided by the Ontario Provincial Police,” read a notice from the centre.
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CTV News
The parents of a Kitchener man who died in a crash two weeks ago are remembering their son, who was training to be a paramedic.
Kendall Waite was 34 years old and only two months shy of completing his practical experience to become certified when he was involved in the crash.
He was on his way home from a night-shift ride-along when he was involved in a crash with a commercial truck on Highway 55 near Caledonia.
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Global News
Northumberland paramedics now have another resource with which to address mental health issues, thanks to a new partnership with Wounded Warriors Canada.
The partnership, announced by Northumberland County and Northumberland paramedics on Wednesday, will provide emergency medical personnel with direct access to core programs funded and facilitated through Wounded Warriors Canada.
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The Sarnia Journal
When you reach your 70s you find yourself remembering things many didn’t know existed.
Like the funeral home ambulance.
It seems a little known fact today that fifty years ago it was funeral homes that operated the ambulances that rushed to accident scenes and took the sick to hospital.
In Sarnia, D.J. Robb, Phillips, and Mackenzie & Blundy each ran their own ambulances, and why they had them is an intriguing tale.
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The Recorder & Times
Leeds and Grenville municipalities will push ahead with improvements to paramedic services this year despite the provincial government’s funding cutbacks.
The counties’ joint services committee decided this week that the additional staff and ambulances are necessary to meet the demands of the rapidly aging population, even if it means the 13 municipalities might be on the hook for the entire $500,000-plus annual cost of the improvements.
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CTV News
South Simcoe Police say they had to use a taser to arrest a man accused of assaulting a Simcoe County paramedic.
Police say they were called to a home in the Highway 88 and Professor Day Drive area in Bradford on Monday evening after a paramedic was allegedly assaulted while on a call.
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The Review
The United Counties of Prescott and Russell is standing firm when it comes to reducing the number of calls its ambulances respond to in the City of Ottawa — and that has prompted investigations from the Ministry of Health.
UCPR began declaring its vehicles were not available for calls outside the counties on June 1 out of concern that not enough ambulances were available to respond to calls within its boundaries because they were responding to calls in Ottawa, and to a lesser extent, Cornwall, Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry.
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