COVID-19: What paramedics need to know!

Jason E Buick^{1

2}, Sheldon Cheskes^{2

3}, Michael Feldman^{2

4}, P Richard Verbeek^{2

4}, Morgan Hillier^{2

4}, Yuen Chin Leong^{2

5}, Ian R Drennan^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
² Sunnybrook Center for Prehospital Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, ON.
³ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
⁴ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
⁶ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Jason E Buick et al. CJEM. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;22(4):426-430.

doi: 10.1017/cem.2020.367.

Jason E Buick^{1

2}, Sheldon Cheskes^{2

3}, Michael Feldman^{2

4}, P Richard Verbeek^{2

4}, Morgan Hillier^{2

4}, Yuen Chin Leong^{2

5}, Ian R Drennan^{2

6}

¹ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
² Sunnybrook Center for Prehospital Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, ON.
³ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
⁴ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
⁶ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

No abstract available

Keywords: Emergency medical services; SARS-CoV-2; paramedic; prehospital.

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