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Dear Stakeholders,
Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Group is pleased to announce that we will be establishing a new Technical Committee on Paramedic Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. We are seeking expert volunteers to serve as Technical Committee Members to develop this new national Standard.
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Dr. Renée MacPhee (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Steven Fischer (University of Waterloo) have asked us to share this updated invitation for you to participate in a study designed to "take the pulse" of paramedic professionals working in Canada. Show your support for this important initiative by completing your survey.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Derrick McLean is in a dark place these days. The 28-year-old corrections worker at the Manitoba Youth Centre says he's tried to end his life at least half a dozen times since January.
"I just don't even know anymore, I don't even know what to do. I've tried so much different stuff. Nothing seems to help. It just seems so helpless," McLean says. McLean has been on medical leave for the past six months following his official diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. He's on a medication regime — but has often tried to overdose on the pills that are supposed to be helping him.
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AM 680 CJOB
Click here to listen to a powerful first-person account from a paramedic recently diagnosed with PTSD. Select July 24 at 7:06 p.m.
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Peterborough Examiner
A proposal to convert a former car lot on Clonsilla Ave. into the newest ambulance base for the west end got delayed at City Hall recently.
Councillors were asked to approve the idea of leasing the vacant Paul Tinney Auto Sales location at 1003 Clonsilla Ave. as a new second city base for the Peterborough County/City Paramedic Service.
But councillors hesitated because there's a new, city-owned fire station a few doors down; they wondered whether it could accommodate ambulances.
"Can we put the service at the fire station, instead of leasing this building?" asked Coun. Keith Riel.
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Edmonton Sun
An Edmonton man who suffered a heart attack at work credits his co-workers with saving his life after they rushed to his aid and used a defibrillator to shock his heart before paramedics arrived.
"I owe them my life," 53-year-old Manuel Rodriguez said in a release sent out by Alberta Health Services' emergency medical services, lauding the four employees for their quick thinking and smart actions. "My doctors said I'm alive because they reacted so quickly."
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Weyburn Review
There have been many improvements and upgrades to the level of service provided by the Emergency Medical Services in Sun Country Health Region, which provides ambulance service throughout the southeast corner of the province, Rotary Club members were told recently.
The director of EMS for Sun Country, Charles Eddy, spoke to the club about what services are offered, and what some of the challenges are that they face in providing these services.
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CTV News
Abbotsford police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a defibrillator that was stolen out of an ambulance.
A portable automated external defibrillator (AED) was taken out of the back of a vehicle recently, police said. It was reported missing from an ambulance station in the 2000-block of Abbotsford Way, but may have been stolen from another location.
AEDs are used to detect life-threatening heart problems, and send a course of electrical current through a body of a patient to shock their heart. The shock gives a heart with an irregular heartbeat a chance to restart at a normal rate.
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NHTSA's Office of EMS
Emergency medical service
(EMS)
provider organizations
nationwide
potentially
expose
responders, patients
and members of the public to preventable risk of serious harm, in
contrast with advances in safety practices that have been broadly implemented in many
healthcare
and other
settings in recent years.
Workplace safety culture refers to an organization's core values related to responder and
patient safety. These core values provide a frame of reference for
leadership and
workers,
and influence shared beliefs, practices, rituals, norms and behaviours related to safety
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National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians
We live in an increasingly data rich, information driven society.
From consulting crowdsourced product ratings, to communicating
instantaneously with personalized worldwide networks, to asking
smartphone map apps to direct us to the nearest Starbucks, data is integral
to everyday life.
The data revolution is clearly evident in healthcare. Improved health
information technology coupled with an urgent need for information to
improve quality of care and control costs has led policy-makers and insurers
to emphasize the "meaningful use" of data.
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European Journal of Emergency Medicine
Previous work has demonstrated that much violence requiring medical help is not recorded by the police. Sharing emergency department data on victims of violence is associated with reductions in community violence and is well established throughout the U.K. We undertook a critical literature review to determine whether sharing ambulance data was useful to identify violence hotspots and offered unique information for violence prevention.
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Prehospital Emergency Care
EMS personnel often work in unpredictable
environments and are at high risk for sustaining occupational injuries. One potential source of injury that is of growing concern is violence toward EMS personnel. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of violence directed at EMS personnel by type and source, and to identify characteristics
associated with experiencing violence.
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Windsor Star
Essex Windsor EMS welcomed a new crop of paramedics recently as a group of 17 recruits were officially sworn in during a commencement ceremony at St. Clair College.
The new paramedics were selected from more than 150 applicants, which were required to take a written test as well as a comprehensive practical evaluation. Paramedics were also required to pass a qualifying interview and a physical fitness evaluation.
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North Bay Nugget
North Bay paramedics will be moving into their new station on Seymour Street over the next few weeks, according to the manager of paramedic services with the North Bay Regional Health Centre.
Jim Stewart said that construction is almost completed on the 11,601-square-foot facility.
The move will be staged, Stewart said.
"In fact, we have already sort of started the process," he said. "The crews are mobile; all their work is done in the ambulance anyway."
He said the new facility "will be a whole new working environment."
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NWF Daily News
Two Okaloosa County EMS paramedics face multiple felony charges after an investigation revealed they used their personal cellphones to record and photograph patients inside ambulances as part of a "selfie war" competition.
A total of 41 patients were initially identified, and all but two, who later died, have been notified by authorities. Many were intubated, sedated or unconscious at the time. Investigators found that the digital images — 64 videos and 101 photos — were shared among a group of five EMTs and paramedics within the Okaloosa County Public Safety Department.
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ABC News
Returning for a second season, Boston EMS gives viewers the chance ride along with the proud men and women of Boston Emergency Medical Services, one of America's most seasoned team of first responders: The first step in the chain of trauma care. It was this same group that responded to the critically injured Boston Marathon spectators three years ago when the bombs went off.
Saturday, July 30th at 10:00 p.m. ET on ABC
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