Remember when you could bring a page of notes into your math exam? Having all the formulas written out in your teeny-tiny scribble really helped not to forget that r was squared and c was a constant equal to the speed of light.
Now you've got a similar tool integrated into the Ontario Paramedic Clinical Guide.
The new tool isn't for math, though. The Ontario Base Hospital Group put the key highlights for applying the prehospital Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) to your adult patients into graphic form.
The Ministry of Health has published a partial revision to the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards (ALS PCS) that will come into force on Monday, November 23, 2020.
Where will you find October MedicNEWS when it's December? It's in the MedicNEWS archive, of course!
We've put back issues of MedicNEWS in the Resources tab on the menu. If you're searching for a topic we've covered or want to flip through old issues, check out the MedicNEWS archive.
You'll find a major focus on palliative care with this year's online Fall CME. Giving you a better knowledge about this patient population will help in care whether or not your paramedic service goes on to implement the new care pathways that the Ottawa Health Research Institute plans to introduce through the Paramedics Providing Palliative Care Project. We've included a discussion forum in MedicLEARN to help support the lessons' content.
The Ontario Base Hospital Group collected questions and answers about paramedic care from across the province during the first wave of COVID-19. This FAQ covers many of the questions we've seen in our region and a few others.
The answers were subsequently endorsed by the provincial Medical Advisory Group (the group known as "G16").
