Hal Newman
L'héritage de Myron Cybriwski
‘Je crois fermement qu’il est de mon devoir en tant que citoyen de partager son histoire pour assurer le changement et de faire tout ce que je peux pour que cela ne se reproduise plus.’
Hal Newman
Curator, The Last Ambulance project - La Dernière Ambulance. / I see you. I see your good works. I see the difference you are making in the world.
Hal Newman
Myron Cybriwski’s Legacy
“No family should ever have to grieve knowing that their loved one died alone waiting for help that never came.. He was not well enough to call anyone else for help or to get to the hospital himself. He was told help was on the way, and it came too late...
Response delays
Response delays - East Broughton zone - Québec - 17 March 2023
This post is bilingual. Ce poste est bilingue. Last night, there was a call to 9-1-1 from the Tring-Jonction area. Emergency medical dispatchers triaged the patient as a Priority 3. Priority 3 = Potential risk of clinical deterioration. The closest available paramedics were assigned to the call. Up until several months
Hal Newman
Combien de temps supplémentaires c'est trop ?
This post is only available in french. J'avais entendu des histoires des paramédics travaillant trois quarts de travail consécutifs de 12 heures. Ramasser des méga heures supplémentaires. Passer d'une ambulance à une autre quart de travail après quart de travail en milieu urbain. Lorsque le volume
Hal Newman
If only we cared about paramedics as much as we cared about....
La version française succède à l'anglais. Back on the very first day of The Last Ambulance project, I was asked how we arrived at this point - where the critical shortage of paramedics continues to worsen. 347 days later, here's my answer. Paramedic shortages are inexorably
Hal Newman
The essential myth
"I don’t know of any other states that use the word “essential,” but the EMS community keeps pushing for that word, even though, in my opinion, it is meaningless without funding and service level requirements....
Hal Newman
Interview with Anthony Almojera
Everything you see on TV is a firefighter. You always see, and I've had this argument with photographers for newspapers, you always see when the firefighters are running with the kid, but they never take the photo of who they're handing the kid over to -- there's never a hand-off picture. Ever...
lettres
In Case Of Emergency
J’ai une question pour toi… mon bracelet médical (pour l’insuffisance surrénalienne) vient de briser. Quel item a le plus de chance d’être remarqué par les services d’urgence?
Hal Newman
Codes
Code 99, Code Blue or just Code. Shorthand for cardiac arrest. An absence of life signs. No respirations. No pulse. Seldom as simple or as clean as the previous description. Often comes as a surprise to both the patient and the other people at the scene...
Sorel-Tracy
Chaque second compte
« Elle était le pivot de notre famille tout le monde gravitait autour d’elle sans qu’elle le demande c’était juste cette façon d’être et de donner à l’autre »
EMS
Un entrevue avec Michel A. Di Iorio
Ensemble, nous formions un service avant-gardiste sous la mire vigilante des jaloux qui auraient aimé être à notre place, possédant l’équipement de pointe (pour l’époque), les médicaments, et le Life-Pak 5.
ambulances
Si seulement
La pénurie de paramédics est inexorablement liée à un refus de reconnaître la vraie valeur des paramédics...