People are being asked to be honest and upfront when calling 911 for medical assistance. LeeAnn Osler, the deputy chief of the medical communications centre for Medavie in Saskatoon, said this is the only way to ensure paramedics responding to a call are properly prepared for potential COVID-19 exposure.
Just this week, paramedics attended a call where the person was complaining of chest pain. “When we walked in expecting to do a full cardiac workup on the patient, we found out that the patient was out of town in the States a week before, and now our paramedics had to immediately go out of the house, go back to the ambulance, get in the full PPE gear to go back in,” said Troy Davies with Medavie Health Service West. “There was a possible