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As 2019 comes to a close, Paramedic Association of Canada would like to wish its members, partners and other allied professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the profession, we would like to provide the readers of the PAC eNews a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020.
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TriCity News
From May 9: I am truly saddened to read the cruel and uninformed letter suggesting that paramedics (“ambulance people”) are “a waste of time” over firefighters.
Paramedics and firefighters each have distinctive and important roles in responding to emergency situations and are funded very differently.
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CBC News
From Sept. 26:
Minutes after a collision with a car flipped a Saint John ambulance on its side, the two paramedics inside were already climbing out to make sure the driver of the car wasn't hurt.
"It's important to us to make sure — even though it was the ambulance that was involved in the collision — that they still feel safe," said Brittany Gionet, one of the paramedics.
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Tri-City News
From April 25: The city of Port Coquitlam announced a new 911 protocol for city facilities this week, spelling out what city staff should do in the event of a medical emergency — and the new directive contradicts a memo the fire chief issued last month.
In the March memo, PoCo Fire Chief Nick Delmonico directed city staff, in case of a medical emergency at a city facility, to call 911 and ask for "fire."
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Global News
From July 25: 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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Ottawa Citizen
From Aug. 1:
The drone hovered before carefully dropping its payload — a small defibrillator — on target. Nearby, three paramedic executives from Germany watched the demonstration closely.
Drones, which have delivered medicine to flood victims and given rescuers a birds-eye view of stranded homeowners in recent months, are just part of what drew the Germans to Renfrew County to see local paramedics at work.
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Canadian Employment Law Today
From Aug. 15: An Alberta paramedic who struck a patient who spit on him and then tried to downplay the incident in the ensuing investigation has had his dismissal upheld by an arbitrator for failing to meet the high standards of trust and conduct inherent to his position.
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Global News
From April 11: Two first responders on the scene of the Humboldt crash that killed 16 spoke to Calgary Today host Joe McFarlane on 770 CHQR about their experiences of the day one year ago.
“These memories, I don’t think they will go away any time soon,” Nipawin Fire Chief Brian Starkell said. “I’ve no doubt that it was the longest night of my life.”
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The Province
From Dec. 5: B.C. Emergency Health Services runs the largest pre-hospital emergency response system in Canada — with our paramedics responding to about 1,500 calls every day. We have more than 4,000 employees — paramedics, call-takers and dispatchers, nurses and specialists — of which about 1,600 work full-time.
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Vancouver Sun
From April 11: He was clinically dead and would normally have been pronounced so, but he’s still with us thanks to a new protocol between St. Paul’s Hospital and paramedics for cardiac-arrest patients outside the hospital, the only such program in Canada.
Every piece of the puzzle fell into place perfectly for Dawkins to be alive today, beginning with his wife Fran’s 911 call.
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Lethbridge News NOW
From June 13: A 9-1-1 call around 9 p.m. March 13, 2012 indicating that 19-month-old Ezekiel had stopped breathing, was played in Court of Queen’s Bench in Lethbridge during day two of testimony in the David and Collet Stephan retrial.
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