The Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario (RPPEO) is excited to announce the return of Trauma Days for 2025! Following another year of success, Eric Gagnon is back to deliver his popular and informative Trauma Day Continuing Medical Education (CME) sessions.
Read more …Trauma Days Are Back in 2025!
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Effective October 23, 2019
Once a new version of a standard comes into force, it replaces the existing, in force version.
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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.
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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 person that they may go to the TOH ER.
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:
Read more …You're Invited to Grand Rounds!
The provincial Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) on Monday, February 22, 2021 released its latest update on considerations for paramedics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This memo replaces both the May 6th, 2020 and the January 4th, 2021 considerations documents and memos.
We're eager to share the new 2019-2020 RPPEO Annual Report! Watch your email for the electronic report this week. We're putting the finishing touches on it and will be delivering it to the Ministry of Health this week, in plenty of time to meet the deadline tomorrow.
It's a new certification year! The annual maintenance of certification (MOC) deadline for paramedics to meet requirements for 2021 re-certification is behind us!
With nearly all requirements available to complete online, it was down to the wire for more paramedics than ever this year. Nearly 20% had not completed educational requirements by mid-January.
