The Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario was created in February 2009 when the Ottawa and Kingston Base Hospitals combined. We provide medical direction, education and advice to paramedics and paramedic services in nine upper-tier municipalities across Eastern Ontario.

The communities served by the Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario are Prescott-Russell, Cornwall, Ottawa, The County of Renfrew, Lanark County, Leeds and Grenville, Lennox and Addington, Hastings County, Prince Edward County and Frontenac County. Combined, this includes nine paramedic services and more than 1200 Primary Care (PCP) and Advanced Care Paramedics (ACP). 

The Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario encourages excellence in paramedicine so that the people in our community get the safest and highest-quality clinical care possible.

• Ottawa

  2475 Don Reid Drive
  Ottawa, On, K1H1E2
  FAX: 613-737-1028

• Kingston

  400-1471 John Counter Blvd,
  Kingston, ON, K7M 8S8

• Phone

  613-737-7228
  1-877-587-7736

RPPEO Departments

• Management
• Medical Direction
• Continuing Education & Certification

Stop the Spread Ottawa (SSO) is a large cohort study on SARS-CoV-2 immune response, led by The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa. Participants may donate monthly blood and saliva samples by self-collecting at home, and/or attend TOH Laboratory Services for blood draws. Participants are given access to an antibody portal through which they can track positive/negative SARS-CoV-2 antibody results. 

Since October 2020, the OHRI research lab has analyzed tens of thousands of samples. This volume of data has made many projects possible, such as: 

TO ALL PARAMEDICS:

The Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario is pleased to announce the topic of this Fall CME: Emergency Childbirth Management.

At the request of the Medical Advisory Committee, the Association of Ontario Midwives developed an Ontario paramedic training program in preparation for the new Emergency Childbirth Medical Directive. 

Online modules covering Anatomy and Physiology and other Obstetrical Emergencies have also been added for your review.

You'll find a major focus on palliative care with this year's online Fall CME. Giving you a better knowledge about this patient population will help in care whether or not your paramedic service goes on to implement the new care pathways that the Ottawa Health Research Institute plans to introduce through the Paramedics Providing Palliative Care Project. We've included a discussion forum in MedicLEARN to help support the lessons' content.

ALS PCS Pocket Books are now available for you to download as a PDF.

Download to your mobile device for access offline.

In the most recent article of Circulation, an American Heart Association (AHA) journal, Bhanji et al discuss how best to educate healthcare professionals on the new 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. The article contains a whole section dedicated to teamwork and leadership, skills the AHA consider critical to successful management of a cardiac arrest "...team based skills are different from clinical skills, [therefore] specific team and leadership training may have a role in the effective performance of resuscitation teams and patient outcomes after cardiac arrest."

The Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario is pleased to announce that every paramedic in the RPPEO region is now using the RPPEO’s Online Medical Consultation (OMC) service for all patch consultations with our dedicated group of base hospital physicians (BHP).

Effective April 8, 2020

Other updates:

• Patient Care and Transportation Standards - v2.3
• Provincial Equipment Standards for Ontario Ambulance Services - v3.5
• Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards - v4.7
• Training Bulletin No. 120 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - v1.5