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The Paramedic Association of Canada's Benevolent Fund Committee recently commissioned the creation of a challenge coin to raise money in support of the Fund. The Benevolent Fund exists to provide a financial payment to families of Paramedics who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to Canadians and lost their lives in the line of duty.
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The Paramedicine Across Canada Expo (PACE) 2017 is designed to bring together front-line paramedics from all practice settings to learn and network with each other. Regardless of your location, background, or experience, the various tracks that this conference offers (clinical, education, leadership and community) ensure that there is something of interest for everyone.
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CFJC Today
B.C. paramedics recently wrapped up the inaugural B.C. Paramedic Memorial Ride. Paramedics rode from Osoyoos to the Hanour Ranch near Heffley Creek over four days. Paramedics wrapped up the final stretch of the nearly 400-kilometre journey, with cyclists aiming to raise money for a national paramedic monument in Ottawa honouring those who have died in the line of duty.
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Global News
At least five times a day, Winnipeg paramedics rush to save a person who overdosed on drugs, the majority of the time that drug is fentanyl. Every chance paramedic Cary Guest gets, he tell teens what he sees on the streets. "Law enforcement and our health system has tested every illegal drug in our country ad every illegal drug except marijuana has tested positive for fentanyl," Guest told the grade seven, eight and nine students.
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CBC News
Private ambulance operators don't get enough wage funding from the provincial government to staff their ambulances 24/7, despite being contractually obligate to do so, says the head of an organization that represents operators. To make it work, medics assigned to primary ambulance work flexible shifts that require them to be on standby for roughly 80 hours a week, every week, according to the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Private Ambulance Operators.
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BramptonGuardian.com
The ambulance centre serving Peel Region will be the first to benefit from plans to overhaul emergency dispatch systems for paramedic services in Ontario. The Ontario government announced this week steps to enhance and modernize the emergency health services system. The Ministry of Health said the new medical dispatch system would better triage and prioritize 911 calls for ambulance.
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North Island Gazette
British Columbia's first Community Paramedicine Initiative is improving access to health care in Port Hardy. Since 2015, qualified B.C. paramedics have been providing in-home care in non-urgent settings in remote communities that are underserved and have aging populations with chronic and complex diseases. First launched in Port Hardy in 2015, the program is proving successful.
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CBC News
Fewer patients in Ontario could end up in hospital next year when they call 911 for medical care. The provincial government is planning to revamp the Ambulance Act in a move that would see more patients treated on-scene, and referred to primary or community care instead of the hospital — if deemed appropriate.
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CaledonEnterprise.com
Peel paramedics have lose one of their own. Peel Regional Paramedic Services community relations officer Brad Bowie confirmed with the Enterprise recently that a paramedic has passed away. He explained that due to a police investigation, he could not release further details at this time.
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Medicine Hat News
A meeting in Edmonton about the air ambulance contract, attended by Medicine Hat and Peace River officials and Alberta Health Services, is being described as productive by at least two of the parties. Medicine Hat was assured there would be no decrease in service and that there would be no consolidation of services, such as a base in Calgary to cover Medicine Hat, said Mayor of Medicine Hat Ted Clugston, who participated in a conference call from Ottawa where he was at the time.
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CBC News
Ottawa is expected to be among the first communities in the province to get a new paramedic dispatch system aimed at giving the most serious cases top priority, and sending less serious cases to non-emergency medical centres. The new system is also expected to ease the burden on outlying communities whose paramedics are often called in to Ottawa to help.
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Irish Journal of Paramedicine
The editorial board of the Irish Journal of Paramedicine (IJP) is honoured to present these abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2017 EMS Gathering in Kinsale, Ireland. As part of our commitment to furthering the profession of paramedicine, and encouraging future development of professional standing, we publish this special supplement containing the selected abstracts.
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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Administration of naxolone is a common treatment for opioid-dependent patients who present with respiratory depression. Although safe in opioid-dependent patients, including acute respiratory distress syndrome and myocardian infarction. It has been suggested that administration of buprenorphine, a partial µ-opioid receptor agonist, to an opioid-intoxicated patient may result in reversal of respiratory depression with less severe withdrawal signs and symptoms.
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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Patients requiring emergency airway management are at great risk of hypoxemic hypoxia because of primary lung pathology, high metabolic demands, anemia, insufficient respiratory drive, and inability to protect their airways against aspiration. This article reviews preoxygenation and peri-intubation oxygenation techniques to minimize the risk of critical hypoxia and introduces a risk-stratification approach to emergency tracheal intubation.
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Newswire
The Paramedic Chiefs of Canada have partnered with Wounded Warriors Canada and are proud to announce the SLIP ON YOUR RED campaign. Red paramedic slip-on epaulettes have been designed to be worn every Friday to show support for our troops deployed. They are available for purchase by paramedics, of all ranks, in Canada with proceeds benefiting Wounded Warriors Canada's mental health programs for First Responders suffering with Operational Stress Injuries.
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Woodstock Sentinel Review
After narrowing it down from over 400 applicants, Oxford County EMS will be adding seven new faces to its team. The new recruits were hired, completed training and were welcomed to the organization with a graduation ceremony late last month, with the new paramedics marching into the council chambers in full regalia.
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National Union of Public and General Employees
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) would like to congratulate Mike Parker, President of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA/NUPGE), on being awarded the Emergency Medical Services Exemplary Service Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. "We are very proud to have one of our leaders honoured in this way," said Elisabeth Ballermann, NUPGE Secretary-Treasurer and former HSAA President. "The medal is a testament to Mike's outstanding commitment to Albertans, and his passion for improving public health care services across the province."
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CTV News
Amherstburg's mayor is interested to know what impact ambulance off-load delays at hospitals is having in Essex County. Aldo DiCarlo worries ambulances tied up at emergency departments means fewer crews are available to respond to calls — lengthening response time.
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The Guardian
A paramedic has described seeing a sea of bodies, with injured people and police officers "screaming for help" amid gunfire, moments after terrorists began their murderous campaign on London Bridge. Garry Edwards, 29, who was the first paramedic on the scene, said he has "a gut feeling" about the extent of the tragedy as he arrived on the south side of the bridge at around 10:10 p.m. that night. The paramedic said he feared for his own safety as he prepared to come face-to-face with an armed attack.
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Medicine Hat News
When someone is placed in a seniors' residence because they require 24/7 care, it is the duty of EMS to transport them to a medical appointment, says Emergency Medical Services. It is important to differentiate here between 'assisted living' and 'long-term care.' "If they are in a long-term care bed, subsidized by Alberta Health Services, receiving care through AHS, then that is a patient and AHS is responsible," said Nick Thain, executive director for EMS and interfacility transfer.
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The Square
Ontario's paramedics are warning of risky and dangerous consequences if proposals by the Ontario government, as part of its revision to the province's emergency response system, are put into practice. One of the most contentious for the union, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, is a planned diversion strategy which would have patients triaged away from hospital emergency rooms.
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Dartmouth Tribune
Fifty-seven cyclists set out on a very rainy day from Halifax's Grand Parade on the first leg of a three-day ride through the Maritimes to raise money for a monument honouring paramedics, which will be build in Ottawa. This is the first of five rides scheduled to be held across Canada this summer. The others will be in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and ending in Alberta in September.
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