The Ministry of Health (ministry) has proceeded with the implementation of patient care models for eligible 9-1-1 patients, as enabled since the regulatory and legislative changes proclaimed on November 1, 2019. These patient care models will provide eligible patients with appropriate community-based care options to improve patients’ timely access to care needed, and to reduce pressures on hospital emergency departments and ambulance services.

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In This Issue

• RPPEO Holiday Message to Paramedics
• Focus: Meet the Physicians from Your Consultations on the Phone
• Deadline Alert: Maintenance of Certification
• BHP Corner: What's the Big Deal about Atrial Fibrillation?
• Quality & Patient Safety: The Times are A-Changing in Paramedicine

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Issue 1.8

Insight for Paramedics

What you need to know:

• A new directive and more changes coming to the ALS PCS this month
• Time to find out how we make our regional Acute Stroke Bypass program better
• This CTAS infographic will make relying on your memory a thing of the past
• Is a revision to the Ontario paramedic clinical app in the works?

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Issue 1.3

Insight for Paramedics in Eastern Ontario

In this issue:

We're cutting right to the facts of the day: clinical guidance with less frills during these rapidly changing times.

In this issue

• Your full Spring 2022 CME line-up announced
• Contraindicated: Why we gave medications to 104 patients who weren't eligible for them last year (and what we can do about it)
• BHP Corner: Acute Behavioural Disturbance
• First Reading: the RPPEO's New Book Club's first book will get you thinking

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Issue 1.6

Insight for Paramedics in Eastern Ontario

In this issue:

• The real reason we tell patients about the scariest risks of refusing transport
• A smoothie-drinking patient case study
• 69 % of ACPs have this in common (Hint: it's a CME thing)
• Saying goodbye to one of our associate medical directors

In this issue

• Announcing the Lineup for Fall CME
• BHP Corner: Solving the Puzzle of Patient Care During COVID
• Neonatal Resus Key Moments

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MedicNEWS Issue 2.5 is here!

In this issue:

• The Truth is in your ACR
• Deadline Alert: Are you ready to meet the Maintenance of Certification requirements?
• BHP Corner: Doc-talk on pain and analgesia in Eastern ON
  
• Case Study: Surprise reason for hypoglycemia in a diabetic patient

In this issue of MedicNEWS:

• Spring 2024 CME Announced! in Continuing Education
• Paramedics on the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis in BHP Corner
• Corresponding about Quality & Safety
• A New Clinical Bulletin to Help Your Practice
• RPPEO is Hiring in Announcements

MedicNEWS is the RPPEO bi-monthly news magazine for paramedics in Eastern Ontario.

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