Mattie457

Hi Mate,

I have PM'd you but head nothing back did you get it?

Cheers,

Matt

Cheers for taking the time to reply!

We are thinking of moving to canada but not for a while as have to wait until my step daughter is slightly older. My wife has relatives in saltspring island just off vancover island so probably into the BC area if thats right?

I have heard through friends that work in Calgary that the BC system is slightly different as you have to be part time rural before you can go full time in the urban area? I dont know how true that is?

It all sounds slightly confusing as things are very different when you compare provinces?

The job I am currently doing at the moment is geared towards CBRN terrorism and mass casualties and taking paramedical care to the patients in that enviroment so i am trained in Breathing apparatus, Confined space medicine, Working at height, swift water rescue, tactical medicine, public order situations etc. Do you have those sort of teams working in Canada or is that more a fire/police thing?

Sorry for all the questions!

Thanks in advance,

Matt

Good Morning to you all!

I have been reading throught the various thread/topics and was wondering what different skill levels there are in Canada and what different types of Paramedics there are.

In the UK the structure is:

Emergency Care Assistant = There to assist the Paramedic not actually able to do much apart from BLS Entonox and oxygen

EMT = Can give certain types of meds off there own back like

GTN

Asprin

Adrenaline 1:1000

Narcan

Glucagon

Salbutimol

Atrovent

Able to do BLS with manual Defib

Paramedic:

Full ALS Including intubation although there is talk of that being taken away for the newly qualified Para's

Full range of drugs:

BenPen

Sodium Chloride 0.9%

10% Dextrose

Furosimide

Hydrocortisone

Oromorph

Tenectaplaise

Morphine

Diazamuls

Diazapan (pr)

ALS Drugs

Syntrometrine

Chlorphenamine

Plus all the EMT drugs

Then we have Critical Care Paramedics

Work along side Doctors able to assist with RSI but not actually RSI

Able to give some drugs off there own back such as Ketamine/Midazolam

They have various other skills but alot of the time have to have a doc with them to carry these out.

I hav spoken to various people that work out in Canada or know people that do and it is the general opinon that UK Para's would come out as a EMT intermediate in Canada is that right?

Sorry if there is typo's or this doesnt make sense been a long old shift!

Thanks in advance!

Matt

Cheers Everyone looking forward to getting involved in some threads!

Good Morning to you all!

Thought I would intruduce myself having just signed up to the forum. I am a UK based Paramedic and have worked for the ambulance service for the past 13 years.

I work for a service that is based in the southwest of the UK and currently work in a Unit called the HART team which is a still part of the ambo service but a seperate to the operational paramedics in ambulances. click the link if your interested as its quite hard to explain!

http://www.ambulancehart.org.uk/

Anyway hope to post a bit on here as looking to move family to Canada at some point!

Matt