Toronto EMS wins international paramedic competition
Lakshine Sathiyanathan, CityNews
A Toronto EMS team wins an international competition testing their patient care and scene management skills. Image courtesy of Shamez Kassam.
A Toronto EMS team beat out six international teams in a competition that tested their patient care and scene management skills at an annual conference designed to teach EMS workers and first responders proper treatment of critically injured patients.
The paramedics won the International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) Patient Care Competition in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 26, competing against teams from Canada, the United States, Japan and Slovenia in three scenarios.
Paramedics Shamez Kassam, Lorne Burns, Martin Johnston and coordinator Ron Kowalik knocked a North Carolina team who has won the competition two years consecutively to third place. A Niagara EMS team placed second.
Also at the annual conference, Toronto EMS spokesperson Peter Macintyre was elected to the board of directors of ITLS. He is the second Canadian on the board.
The paramedics won the International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) Patient Care Competition in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 26, competing against teams from Canada, the United States, Japan and Slovenia in three scenarios.
Paramedics Shamez Kassam, Lorne Burns, Martin Johnston and coordinator Ron Kowalik knocked a North Carolina team who has won the competition two years consecutively to third place. A Niagara EMS team placed second.
Also at the annual conference, Toronto EMS spokesperson Peter Macintyre was elected to the board of directors of ITLS. He is the second Canadian on the board.
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