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Service Description:
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Emergency medical services (ambulance) providing pre-hospital emergency care and transportation by paramedics
Programs:
Community Outreach: focuses on - preparing people for an emergency. talking about paramedics and what they do, discussing health and safety, such as how to prevent injuries, encouraging everyone to act and save a life. PRPS employees can demonstrate hands-only CPR and how to use an AED (automated external defibrillator)
Community Paramedicine: runs wellness clinics for senior residents at 5 Peel Living buildings. At these clinics, specially trained paramedics: provide basic check ups, assess health risks, teach residents how to manage health issues, connect residents to health care and community resources
Lay-Responder Support Program: support those who performed CPR or used an AED (automated external defibrillator) in Peel
Rapid Response Unit: RRU paramedics can reach patients faster than other paramedics RRU paramedics can start life-saving care as soon as they arrive. They have the same skills and equipment as other paramedics. When paramedics arrive in an ambulance, the RRU paramedic transfers care and then leaves for the next emergency. Peel has 8 RRUs on the road during busiest times
Tactical Team: This team is a group of paramedics who work with the Peel Regional Police Tactical Rescue Unit when needed. They go with police officers to the most dangerous calls involving: weapons, suspicious packages, hostage and barricaded people, search and rescue situations, search warrants. They provide emergency medical care to police officers, suspects, hostages, bystanders, and even police dogs. There are 2 tactical ambulances for each shift and may respond to regular 911 calls as well
Public Access Defibrillator Program: making it easier for community residents to provide CPR and defibrillation before paramedics arrive * increasing the number of AEDs placed in the communities of Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga, teaching people to recognize a cardiac emergency and empowering people to use an AED and support CPR
Low Acuity Diversion Program: Provides non-critical patients with the best care while helping paramedics return to the community faster. Designed for patients with non-life-threatening conditions, where such patients are taken to the appropriate medical facility where they can receive the best care while also helping paramedics return to the community faster. Participating hospitals are William Osler Health Systems (Brampton Civic and Etobicoke General), Trillium Health Partners (Credit Valley and Mississauga Hospital), Headwaters Health Care Centre. Patients receive care in 2 ways: Fit2Sit - allows paramedics to bring patients with non-life-threatening conditions to the hospital waiting room. Patients are assessed to make sure they can sit on their own and are monitored by hospital staff until a nurse or doctor is available to see them * Urgent Care Centre - Paramedics brings patients with non-life-threatening conditions to the Peel Memorial Urgent Care Centre, where there are emergency-trained physicians and staff available around the clock to address non-life-threatening health care needs
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