RPPEO News

Get in on the live learning Oct 5 & 7 for Fall 2021 CME! Registration is open for the Fall 2021 CME Live Virtual Event Series! You're invited to join the RPPEO for all or part of the 4.5 hours of live virtual workshops featured across 2 days in the first week of October, 2021. The Virtual Workshop Event Schedule is available in the Student Program. You can also visit our Education Events ...

A new clinical app is on its way! Here are the details: The Ontario Base Hospital Group is pleased to inform you that a new clinical app for Ontario paramedics is coming! All new app, all new name In anticipation of creating a new app, we distributed a survey this spring about the naming of a new app. Thank you for completing our survey. We received lots of great suggestions for the new clin...

The Ministry of Health updated the COVID-19 Screening Tool for Paramedics on Thursday August 26, 2021. The new tool is now in effect for paramedics and Central Ambulance Communications Centres (CACC). The Ontario Base Hospital Group has also updated the Ontario Paramedic Clinical Guide app to reflect the revised screening tool. COVID-19 Screening Tool for Paramedics – version 2.0 Outil de dé...

Stop the Spread Ottawa (SSO) is a large cohort study on SARS-CoV-2 immune response, led by The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa. Participants may donate monthly blood and saliva samples by self-collecting at home, and/or attend TOH Laboratory Services for blood draws. Participants are given access to an antibody portal through which they can track positive/ne...

Patients can now have one support person accompanying them at an Ottawa Hospital (TOH) emergency room (ER). On August 16, 2021, TOH updated its visitor restrictions. The Ottawa Hospital is currently in low visitor restrictions as part of the hospital’s ongoing response to COVID-19.  Paramedics are encouraged to inform family and loved ones of patients who would benefit from a support per...

RPPEO and the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Ottawa Hospital have a new collaboration where Eastern Ontario paramedics can view Grand Rounds for CME credit! In the most recent Grand Rounds, hear about these controversial guidelines:   Dr. Renee Bradley presents three main areas of discussion on some controversial guidelines in the 2020 ILCOR AHA guidelines update. They i...

What do you think of our new site design? We've just launched the new RPPEO site design! It was time to move the RPPEO website design to a new platform that supports the latest in security and site features. With this move, we've refreshed the content and organization based on paramedics' feedback. The RPPEO website is a vital link between the base hospital and paramedics for medical directi...

It's time to get ready for Spring 2021 CME! Spring 2021 CME is a two-part offering this year, with both virtual workshops for live participation or recorded viewing and online learning modules.  New this year, we've added optional live virtual workshops to this Spring's core CME for RPPEO-certified ACPs! PCPs are also invited to participate in the live or recorded CME events. The comp...

MyGriefToolbox.ca helps paramedics respond to palliative care calls and expands their capacity to provide quality care. The first seven modules provide paramedics with: Tactics to support patients and families in acute grief before and after a death. Strategies to intervene sensitively. Guidance to constructively manage work-related grief and the other stresses of working with people at ...

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 k...