Ambulance New Brunswick

• Advanced care paramedics in N.B. now have ‘clot buster’ medication for heart attacks

  The province announced $2.5 million on Thursday to equip advanced care paramedics with pre-hospital thrombolytics for cardiac patients.

  Health

  May 21
  
• New Brunswick ambulance changes will benefit rural communities: paramedic association

  Changes with how New Brunswick's paramedics are deployed will benefit rural communities, according to the Paramedic Association of New Brunswick. 

  Canada

  Mar 25
  
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• Air ambulance service returning to N.B.’s Grand Manan Island by fall

  Air ambulance services to Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick were cancelled two years ago. A new contract is expected to bring them back by September.

  Health

  Feb 2, 2024
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• No ‘silver bullet solution’ to address ambulance response times: Ambulance NB

  Ambulance response rates in many rural areas remain bellow target, even as the province continues to pay out bonuses to its ambulance service provider.

  Health

  Sep 21, 2023
• 2 killed after multi-vehicle crash in Beresford, N.B.

  A man and a woman were killed in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 11 in Beresford, N.B.

  Canada

  Nov 27, 2022
• ‘Unacceptable’: N.B. island fears losing on-site medevac service

  New Transport Canada regulations are expected to affect Atlantic Charters, who has long held the responsibility of transporting the most sick to the mainland.

  Health

  Nov 11, 2022
• N.B. ambulance offload delays projected to be 600 per cent higher than 2017

  Officials say the increase in delays is caused by other issues within the health-care system and there's little they can do to alleviate them.

  Health

  Sep 8, 2022
• N.B. emergency medical technicians to assist paramedics, increase ambulance coverage

  A training program for emergency medical technicians aimed at putting more ambulances on New Brunswick roads is scheduled to begin this fall.

  Health

  Sep 1, 2022
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• Patients wait up to 12 hours in ambulances amid ER shortages in N.B.

  At least eight ambulances were waiting outside the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre with patients inside for up to 12 hours amid a strain on ER resources.

  Canada

  Aug 29, 2021
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• New Brunswick paramedics face significant increase in offload delays

  Offload delays are increasing in New Brunswick, according to Ambulance New Brunswick, the company responsible for emergency ambulatory care.

  Health

  Jul 28, 2021