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PAC
The Paramedic Association of Canada presented its annual national awards of excellence
at the PACE Gala on September 20th at the beautiful Metropolitan Theater in Winnipeg,
Manitoba. The four recipients of the PAC Awards of Excellence received their awards.
PAC also presented five PAC President’s Commendations to individuals with prolonged
and dedicated service to PAC and the paramedic profession on a national level. We
congratulate all the recipients and recognize their outstanding contributions to the
Paramedic profession, the patients and communities they serve.
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PAC
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PAC
As a member of the Paramedic Association of Canada (PAC), you are eligible for preferred group rates on home and auto insurance from our program insurance broker, Marsh’s Private Client Services (Marsh). These rates are not available to the general public and are being offered to you as a benefit of your membership. Most people are skeptical when presented with opportunities for free insurance quotes, but we have permitted Marsh to make this offer to our members on the basis that it represents a reasonable opportunity to save. Over 40%** of those choosing to contact Marsh for a quote followed through and bought their insurance through them. And now, when you call for a quote between Aug. 26 and Oct. 25, you also have the chance to win a free Sonos One Smart Speaker! Please call Marsh toll-free at 1 877 476 6727 or submit your expiry dates online at www.marsh.ca/quote and a licensed insurance broker will contact you prior to your next renewal.
*Members of PAC requesting a quote or submitting expiry date(s) for future quotes for the PAC group home and auto insurance program from August 26 to October 25, 2019 are eligible for the draw to win a Sonos One Smart Speaker (Generation 2) with a value of $497.00 CAD plus applicable taxes. The contest prize is provided by Marsh Canada Limited and the program’s underwriters, Novex Insurance Company and Economical Insurance Company. No purchase necessary. Limit one entry per person. Quote must be for a new home and/or auto policy. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries. Entrants must be age of majority, residents of Canada (excluding Quebec), and members of PAC. Full contest details are available at www.marsh.ca/paccontest.
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Campbell River Mirror
The B.C. government is nearing its goal of providing 99 communities with rural paramedic support, and has added six new advanced paramedic positions in larger communities.
Advanced-care paramedic jobs are being added in Campbell River, Cranbrook, Prince Rupert, Salt Spring Island, Fort St. John and Valemount, as the province and the new Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. union implement a new three-year agreement ratified Oct. 1.
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L'Éclaireur Progrès
Une résidente de Beauceville avait mentionné au journal qu’en route vers l’Hôpital de Saint-Georges, sa fille avait vu une ambulance stationnée devant l’église de Notre-Dame-des-Pins. Elle serait sortie de sa voiture pour demander aux ambulanciers de transporter sa mère à l’hôpital.
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Global News
A Peterborough man who lives in his car is going to jail for 15 days after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two paramedics and assaulting a third. Thirty-one-year-old Travis Cassidy told the victims in Lindsay court recently he was extremely sorry for his actions and blamed what happened on alcohol.
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Winnipeg's Digital News Source
Eleven new graduates of the Advanced Care Paramedic program offered by the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service will soon be on the front lines providing emergency medical care in Winnipeg.
The graduates, all current paramedics, under went a three-year program to achieve the highest certification level available in Manitoba.
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Renfrew Today
When Renfrew County’s vast geography works against paramedics, they can now call in technology.
Paramedic Chief Mike Nolan says after successful trials two weeks ago, his crews can now deploy drones both by cellular and the more traditional radio frequencies.
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CBC News
Paramedics with Superior North EMS are taking extra training to ensure their safety in violent or potentially-violent situations as one long-time first responder says he and his colleagues now face those dangers on a daily basis. The training, called Street Smart, is a "threat-based situational awareness program that focuses on de-escalation and self defence," according to the latest annual safety report prepared by Thunder Bay city administration for city council.
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Ottawa Citizen
In the first seven months of this year, the Ottawa Paramedic Service lost an average of 151 hours every day waiting to transfer patients to hospital, says a city report.
Offload delay is a measure of the time paramedics spend in area hospitals waiting to complete transfer of patient’s care to a hospital. The industry standard for transferring patients is 30 minutes.
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CBC News
The Ottawa Hospital says there's "a lot of hard work" to do to speed up the time it take to receive patients arriving at its emergency departments by ambulance, allowing paramedics to get back out on the road.
The acknowledgement comes after the city's emergency services manager scolded the hospital for holding up paramedics and potentially putting patients' lives at risk.
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Prince Albert Daily Herald
Parkland Ambulance is reminding residents to keep safety top of mind as hunting season ramps up this year. The agency sent out a pair of safety sheets to media partners recently about hunting and ATV safety.
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European Journal of Emergency Medicine
In severely injured or acutely ill patients close monitoring of blood pressure can be crucial. At the prehospital scene and during transfer to hospital, the BP is usually monitored using intermittent oscillometric measurements with an upper arm cuff every 3–5 min. The BP can be monitored noninvasively and continuously using the continuous noninvasive arterial pressure device. In this study, we investigated the feasibility of a CNAP device in a prehospital setting.
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Australasian Journal of Paramedicine
Major trauma patients are often perceived as being young males injured by high energy transfer mechanisms. The aim of this study was to describe the demographics of major trauma patients who were transported to hospital by ambulance.
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JEMS
Amid reports of high rates of assault-related injuries among emergency medical services personnel, anecdotal evidence suggests that many EMS agencies, and individual EMS professionals, are using, or considering the purchase of, a variety of solutions. The purpose of this article is to describe the evidence and encourage the consideration of options to reduce the risks of assault-related injuries for EMS personnel.
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Global News
While many families across Canada gathered for get-togethers and meals to mark Thanksgiving, emergency services personnel and shift workers have had to miss those cherished events in the name of duty. “What’s a stat holiday?” Toronto Police Const. Alex Li, a 15-year member of the service, briefly joked when asked about working during a holiday Monday.
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CBC News
More than 50 Lambton County paramedics are on board with a new program, offering palliative patients a chance for a final visit with friends, family or a hockey game.
The idea for the community transportation program was initially conceived by Lambton County paramedic Stephen Adlington.
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SooToday.com
Sault EMS paramedics, as well as paramedic program students, were on hand at Rome’s and the Trunk Road Food Basics location Saturday, their uniforms adorned with pink epaulettes (some paramedics also sporting pink toques), collecting funds for breast cancer research from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
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The Sarnia Journal
Local paramedics are launching a new volunteer program to provide patients in hospice and palliative care with short outings in the community.
Lambton County has donated a dedicated ambulance and paramedic volunteers will provide the patients with medical and emotional support, if needed.
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iPolitics
Front-line addiction workers in St. Catharines say the opioid crisis plaguing their community is going unnoticed in the federal election campaign.
The Niagara Region saw 89 opioid-related deaths last year, according to Glenn Walker, the executive director of Positive Living Niagara, the only safe consumption and treatment service centre (referred to previously as a safe-injection site) in the area.
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Demers Ambulances, Inc.
Demers Ambulances donated two Type III MX164 ambulances that will be put into service by Public Hospitals Authority of the Bahamas. With medical teams stretched to the limits, the ambulances will provide a much-needed boost to teams in Freeport and Abaco Island providing care to those affected by Hurricane Dorian.
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The Sarnia Observer
A dying girl wanted one last trip to get bridge fries, and a Lambton County paramedic was trying to make it happen.
“We had it all planned out,” said Stephen Adlington of Lambton’s Emergency Medical Services. “I approached management. They thought it was a great idea.”
But the girl, in palliative care, declined quicker than expected and died before the trip via ambulance could happen, he said.
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Kirkland Lake Northern News
Timiskaming Paramedics have changed the colour of their epaulettes worn on the shoulders of their uniforms for the month of October as a show of solidarity to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For all shifts worked during the month of October, paramedics across the district working out of all three stations in Haileybury, Englehart and Kirkland Lake have banned together and purchased new sets of pink epaulettes.
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Quinte News
Once again the local paramedic service is trying to get a share of the money patients pay for ambulance services. For years, the local Paramedic Service has been asking the province for its share of the $45 paid by the patient when receiving ambulance service.
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Manitoba Co-operator
Tim Hillier got up on stage in front of a conference of paramedics and bluntly told them, “My objective is to scare the crap out of you.
“These are very, very dangerous scenes. They’re dangerous for the patients… but they’re dangerous for you as responders as well,” Hillier said. “I don’t think we get enough training in this.”
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Driving
Apparently Dubai is running out of things to do with all its supercars, because now it’s turning the darn things into ambulances. It seems like a skit out of "Top Gear" — we can’t help but think of Jeremy Clarkson piloting a Porsche 944 to the aid of some poor schmuck with a severed artery, but the vehicles Dubai’s adding to its paramedics services fleet are obviously more capable than a 30-year-old four-cylinder Porsche.
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