BC Ambulance paramedics get new trauma drug expected to save lives
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02/26/2015
Sudbury, Ontario – Review underway of city ambulance, fire services
Battle Creek, Michigan – Driver who struck ambulance in fatal crash had long criminal history, got licence back Monday
Cleveland, Ohio – Mayor all but gives up on plan to merge EMS and fire services
New York, New York – NYC sees increase in cardiac emergencies as response time rises
Martinsburg, West Virginia – EMS expansion of protocols and work
Wales, UK – Ambulance response times improve after low
Shepton-Mallet, UK – Drug-driver sentenced for crashing into ambulance high on drugs
Tasmania, Australia – Minister resists demands for paramedics’ pay raise after doctors win increase
Feb 25, 2015 | Comments Off on 02/26/2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
** UK medics establish Maldives charity in memory of paramedic who died last year on aid trip
** Australian medics in West Australia contending with heroin overdose epidemic
UNITED KINGDOM NEWS
** Friends and colleagues of a Poole paramedic, who perished last year in a diving accident in the Maldives, have established a charity in his name. That is the word from the Daily Echo (William Frampton/February 25) which said the Maldives based Dai Rees Foundation will include a full time staff of 5 and will also see help from Dorset paramedics. The organization’s aim is to educate doctors, schools, and first aid personnel about emergency care. Along with serving in the Maldives, the charity will also do outreach in Nepal. Rees, 30, who worked with the South West Ambulance Service, died while snorkeling in March of 2014. He was in the country to teach EMS skills to local people.
AUSTRALIA NEWS
** Paramedics in West Australia are apparently contending with a record number of heroin overdoses. The Age (Nicole Cox/February 26) said St. John Ambulance WA stats show the number of narcotic overdose calls has quadrupled since the same time last year. According to the newspaper, the service attended 622 such incidents between February 2014 and January 2015. In January of this year alone, the non fatal narcotic overdose tally was 79, 50 of which involved heroin. St. John metropolitan operations general manager James Sherrif said the service has not seen similar spikes since 1999. Despite the increase, however, community outreach workers and police have said while sporadic changes in heroin availability can impact overdose rates, the main street drugs being abused are still methamphetamines. Worker Les Twentyman said, however, heroin use spikes usually coincide with periods of high youth unemployment and increased poverty.
Feb 25, 2015 | Comments Off on Thursday, February 26, 2015