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On Friday, Sept. 20, the Paramedic Association of Canada and the Paramedicine Across Canada Expo will host the Excellence in Paramedicine Awards Dinner at the iconic Metropolitan Entertainment Centre in downtown Winnipeg.
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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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Global News
The fire chief of a small New Brunswick community says it took an ambulance more than 30 minutes to arrive at a cardiac arrest call over the weekend, which he says may have resulted in the middle-aged man’s death.
Ligouri Turbide, chief of the Baie-Sainte-Anne Fire Department, says members of his crew responded to the call at around 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 20.
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Insauga
Each year, property taxes in most municipalities — Mississauga included — increase as towns and cities work to maintain and improve transit, infrastructure and services.
Now, however, the Region of Peel — which includes Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon — is warning that property taxes could climb quickly as the region grapples with major cuts to crucial services at the provincial level.
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Alberta College of Paramedics
President's Message: Council Update
The June Council meeting brought with it some valuable and impressive deliberation and presentations. There were two highlights that stood out that I want to share with you this month.
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Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
Grey County Paramedics are making greater use of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) services now that changes have been made to legislation.
A mid-year County financial report shows there have been 18 PTSD/Mental Stress claims since 2016 when Ontario passed the Supporting Ontario’s First Responders Act.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Union leaders representing the city’s firefighters and paramedics claim police are diverting dangerous 911 calls to them and they fear it’s just a matter of time before "a firefighter is injured or killed."
Alex Forrest, president of United Firefighters of Winnipeg, and Ryan Woiden, president of Manitoba Government and General Employees Union Local 911, which represents EMS, ambulance-based paramedics, said despite repeated police denials, paramedics, firefighters and firefighter/paramedics are being sent to calls on a pretext of a medical or fire emergency when it’s actually a criminal situation.
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The Sault Star
The current provincial policy, which mandates EMS personnel must attend to a patient while waiting for a health-care facility’s staff to accept him or her, is not set in stone, says the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
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CBC News
Winnipeg police are apologizing after one of their officers took a photo of an intoxicated man while a first responder crew was helping him on Friday, July 12.
In the photo, posted by Justin Highway, a smiling Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) employee is seen sitting next to a man who appeared to be in a vulnerable state. A female officer is in front of him and is accompanied by a male police officer.
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Caledon Enterprise
Peel’s paramedics have begun an online campaign attacking the Ford government for potential budget cuts, and they aren’t mincing words.
Peel paramedic union head Dave Wakely said they see a pattern out of the "privatization playbook” and that the cuts will lead to tragic results.
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CBC News
A member of the Winnipeg Police Board wants the officers who were caught photographing an unresponsive, intoxicated man to be punished.
"I think these situations warrant discipline," said Damon Johnston, who is also the president of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg and voluntary chair of the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba.
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Victoria News
More than 200 lives have been saved since Vancouver Island’s largest supervised consumption site opened just over one year ago, but experts say more can be done.
The Harbour Supervised Consumption Services at 941 Pandora Ave. opened its doors on June 18, 2018. Since then there have been 61,988 visits to the site, 206 overdoses and zero deaths.
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Prehospital Emergency Care
Transitions in care between emergency medical services (EMS) providers and emergency department (ED) nurses are critical to patient care and safety. However, interactions between EMS providers and ED nurses can be problematic with communication gaps and have not been extensively studied. The aim of this review was to examine (1) factors that influence transitions in care from EMS providers to ED nurses and (2) the effectiveness of interventional strategies to improve these transitions.
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British Paramedic Journal
Little is known about the experiences of paramedics who have left the ambulance service to work in emergency departments (ED). This study sought to explore the lived experiences of paramedics working in specialist/advanced ED roles, focusing on role transition, influences on effective clinical practice and perceptions of role optimisation. A secondary aim of the study was to make recommendations on the future development of specialist/advanced ED roles for paramedics.
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Guelph Today
On July 20 at approximately 1:30 p.m., the Guelph Police Service received a report of a three-car collision involving an ambulance in the area of Willow Road and Imperial Road.
The ambulance was responding to a call for service and had its emergency lights and sirens activated when another vehicle struck it. There were minor injuries reported.
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Bay Today
Vehicles were lined up at the car wash and BBQ fundraiser in support of North Bay’s Gerry Martin.
A constable with North Bay Police Services, Martin recently suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury at his home and remains in hospital in Sudbury.
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CBC News
For Samantha Lowe and Jordan MacKinnon, serving their community is a family affair.
After growing up together in Nova Scotia, cousins Lowe and MacKinnon find themselves working side-by-side in high-stress careers on P.E.I.
Lowe is a constable with Charlottetown police on P.E.I. and MacKinnon is an advanced care paramedic with Island EMS.
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Kenora Online
The Kenora District Services Board is working to improve the care and quality of emergency medical services in the region. Northwest Emergency Medical Services have introduced a full-time Quality Assurance Superintendent position for the district.
Tarran Sawh assumed the position earlier this month, and is working to implement and maintain a continuous quality improvement program within the organizations.
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Sudbury.com
A judge in Sudbury has ruled against a man who sued the city claiming a paramedic was reckless when he went through a red light while responding to an emergency call.
The incident took place in 2014, but the judgment wasn't issued until this spring. Transcripts from the case say the ambulance approached the lights at the corner of Brady and Minto streets, with its lights flashing and siren blaring intermittently.
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The Kingston Whig-Standard
When sitting in the station and waiting for a call, Frontenac Paramedic rookie Dan Da Silva often feels anxious. Before he was hired and worked as a student with the service, he’d clean and distract himself with other things so as not to get too nervous.
But then, he explained, something always happens when the tones go off: a wave a calm, of steadiness, washes over him and it’s time to work.
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CBC News
The daughter of Gordon Jebb, who waited 6½ hours in a northern hospital for air transport out to Winnipeg where he died days later, is demanding answers from the province about why he faced such delay in emergency care.
"It shouldn't have taken that long. A plane should have been there immediately and there should've been people waiting on standby to go with him," said Chenae Bear, Jebb's 27-year old daughter.
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Sault Online
The District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board has appointed Robert Rushworth as its first Chief of Land Ambulance Emergency Medical Services.
In May of this year, the DSSMSSAB made the decision to begin direct delivery of the local land ambulance Emergency Medical Service to strengthen board governance and accountability effective Jan. 1, 2020.
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