NATIONAL PARAMEDIC COMPETITION 2012 Coming Saturday April 12 2012!  Make Sure to keep checking back here or at www.paramediccompetition.ca for more details including time, location and prizes! Want to represent your service and show off your skills?  For registration details check out National Paramedic Competition’s website here.   The following has been taken from the [...]

MEDIC SCOPE STUDY I would like to add a follow up to yesterday’s article (thanks again for the link Tim).  UBC is currently doing a study on PTSD. In order to be eligible to participate, paramedics must: 1. Be currently employed as a paramedic in Canada. 2. Have a cohabitating spouse or romantic partner who [...]

BY OUR VERY NATURE We have looked at Post Traumatic Stress before.  It goes without saying that our job is one of great rewards and great stresses.  By our very nature, Paramedics put others first.  It is impossible to do our job without becoming emotionally involved in the call.  What makes us effective as paramedics, [...]

PIPE DREAMS Just recently I had the pleasure to attend the latest graduation of police officers from OPC (Ontario Police College) in Aylmer. For those that are not familiar with OPC -  The Ontario Police College is where all police officers spend 3 months in intensive training to become police officers.  This program is quite [...]

FieldGuide 2012 It’s new and it’s fantastic! We want to thank everyone who downloaded our App from iTunes and purchased a hard copy. Your support and feedback has been amazing. This new version has been updated to keep inline with the many new changes to the Ontario Base Hospital Group protocols and AHA guidelines. Using [...]

Canadian C Spine Rules Canadian emergency departments (EDs) annually treat 1.3 million patients who have suffered blunt trauma from falls or motor vehicle collisions and who are at risk for cervical spine (c-spine) injury. Most such cases are alert and stable adults and less than 1% has a c-spine fracture. The vast majority of these [...]

Refusing Transport In today’s climate paramedics are left at a great disadvantage when it comes to the dreaded “no service”.  It is expected by the Ministry of Health, your service and your base hospital that if you have been dispatched to a patient that you will indeed be transporting the patient.  Every medic knows this [...]