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Casting is now open for Season Eight of The Amazing Race Canada and we always love seeing applications from Paramedics! We are looking for competitive teams who will push limits to win it all!
For seven summers we have seen incredible racers conquering their fears, pushing themselves to the limit and beyond, proving to themselves and the rest of the country that they can do anything!
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CTV News
Ever since some emergency rooms in Winnipeg became urgent care centres, it appears ambulances are spending more time being redirected.
“I’m not surprised,” said Darlene Jackson, president of the Manitoba Nurses Union. “That’s certainly something we’ve been hearing from nurses in the three emergency departments in Winnipeg.”
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CBC News
Paramedics in Thunder Bay are increasingly being exposed to violence while on the job.
There have been 52 separate reported incidents of physical assaults directed at paramedics from September 2016 to October 2019, according to statistics provided by Superior North EMS.
Spitting is the most common type of encounter, representing 33 per cent of the incident reports, but paramedics have also been getting kicked, punched, struck and grabbed.
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Toronto.com
For bringing back a trucker from the brink of death, Etobicoke paramedic Bill Dobson got the most rewarding coffee of his life, four years later.
During a night shift in 2009, Dobson went into a coffee shop near Highway 27 and Rexdale Boulevard, and while he was standing in line, he noticed a tractor-trailer pull up.
“This guy parks his truck and walked in,” Dobson recalled. “He saw me in line, and he knew my name. He goes, ‘Bill, I want to buy you a coffee.’”
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Saltwire
Ambulance response times have been a concern in Conception Bay North the last few months and local political leaders say they want something done.
Glen Clarke, chair of the CBN Joint Council, said members have heard concerns from people about the issue and the joint council is now worried too.
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Narcity
Canada’s paramedics have one of the most important jobs in the country, and they sucessfully save hundreds of lives every single day. That said, for every life saved there is a considerable degree of distress and trauma that comes with the role, and some paramedics are struggling to cope. To help staff that are suffering with post-traumatic stress, Outaouais Paramedics have hired a puppy, and he’s got a very important role within the team.
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Prehospital Emergency Care
The two objectives of this report are: first, to describe a comparison of chest compressions unsynchronized or synchronized to native cardiac activity in a porcine model of hypotension, and second, to develop an algorithm to provide synchronized chest compressions throughout a range of native heart rates likely to be encountered when treating PEA cardiac arrest.
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Australasian Journal of Paramedicine
Paramedics routinely perform multiple time-sensitive decisions in dynamic environments, often with limited information and equipment. Paramount to patient safety, how paramedics make judgements and decisions within their uncertain environment is important. The primary aim of this review was to identify, examine and synthesise the published literature on how paramedics working in the out-of-hospital environment use judgement and make decisions.
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CBC News
As a paramedic, Rodney Bodner is used to dealing with meth addicts.
But as he transported them to hospital, he often wondered what got them there in the first place.
The paramedic has taken his experience on the front lines of the Manitoba's meth problem and created a documentary film about the fight against it.
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CBC News
Blood, vomit and amniotic fluid — it's all part of a day's work for Michele Schlodder.
The former paramedic is a technologist at NAIT's Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation, where she creates hyper-realistic training scenarios that mimic health-care emergencies.
She does moulage: using makeup to create gory wounds to go along with the scenarios.
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Sault Online
The Sault Ste. Marie paramedics wrapped up their Breast Cancer Campaign with the Canadian Cancer Society this week. Throughout this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the paramedics could be spotted wearing pink lapels to show their support for this cause.
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Global News
The Saskatoon Fire Department’s calls for emergency medical service are increasing faster than the city’s population due in part to addictions and mental health issues, according to the department’s chief.
From 2015 to 2018, emergency medical calls climbed 25 per cent, Chief Morgan Hackl said. Meanwhile, the city’s population grew by six per cent during the same period.
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CBC News
Despite being due last December, Health Minister Randy Delorey still cannot say when the public will get to see an independent review of the province's ambulance system.
The province contracted consultant firm Fitch and Associates for $145,000 to do the review, which Delorey ordered in August 2018. The company subsequently missed multiple deadlines to deliver the review, which finally landed on the minister's desk last month.
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Woodstock Sentinel-Review
For paramedics, the typical approach when called to a home is to get the patient to the hospital.
But what if your patient is in palliative care and doesn’t want to go?
A new training program starting this week, and continuing throughout November, aims to help Oxford County paramedics tackle coming to terms with a patient who has chosen palliative medicine for their end-of-life care.
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CBC News
An increase in the number of bystanders administering naloxone to people overdosing on opioids in Thunder Bay is a good thing, but paramedics in the city caution against the belief that a single dose of the medication can save someone's life.
Superior North EMS deputy chief Andrew Dillon said between January and August of 2019, paramedics administered naloxone — a medication that counteracts the effects of opioid overdoses — 64 times.
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