The Ministry of Health has published a partial revision to the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards (ALS PCS) that will come into force on Monday, November 23, 2020.

Advanced Life Support

Patient Care Standards

Version 4.5

Comes into force May 1, 2018

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Version 4.9 of the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards (ALS PCS) is now in effect.

The revisions to these Standards include changes to paramedic clinical practice. The Ontario Base Hospital Group (OBHG) Education Subcommittee has prepared a support document that discusses these practice changes.

The RPPEO has made the necessary revisions to paramedics' MedicNET profiles to provide the certifications paramedics require for these practice changes. Paramedics may notice these changes in the letter they received when their RPPEO certification renewed on February 1, 2022.

The Ontario Paramedic Clinical Guide mobile application has been updated with the ALS PCS v.4.9.

The ALS PCS version 4.9 and the support materials available in this article are available in the usual Medical Directives section of the site from February 1 forward.

Version 5.1 of the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards (ALS PCS) is now in effect. 

The Ministry of Health has amended version 5.0 of the ALS PCS to include 3 new treat and discharge auxiliary medical directives as well as to integrate minor edits. ALS PCS version 5.1 is in force, replacing the previously circulated version 5.0 of the ALS PCS. Support materials related to ALS PCS 5.0 are applicable to 5.1. 

The revisions to these Standards include changes to paramedic clinical practice. The Ontario Base Hospital Group (OBHG) Education Subcommittee has prepared a support document that discusses these practice changes. 

The Ontario Ministry of Health has not yet announced the release of ALS PCS v.5.4.

While the update was originally expected to take effect in February 2025, the release timeline remains uncertain. Until ALS PCS v.5.4 is formally published, paramedics should continue to follow the current ALS PCS v.5.3 directives.

For updates, please monitor the Ministry of Health’s Paramedic Practice Documents.

The Ministry of Health has issued a revised version of the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards (ALS PCS). Version 5.2.1 came into force on January 10, 2024.

ALS PCS v5.2.1 corrected the adult doses for atropine and the pediatric doses for pralidoxime in both the PCP and ACP Nerve Agent Exposure Medical Directives.

The Ministry of Health has released the newest iteration of the Advanced Life Support Patient Care Standards (ALS PCS), version 5.2. This updated version of the Standards comes into force on Monday, July 10, 2023.

Immediate practice-related changes are limited and include updates to 2 core medical directives (Opioid Toxicity and Withdrawal Medical Directive and Nausea/Vomiting Medical Directive). Paramedics will find changes to auxiliary medical directives within the Chemical Exposure directives and the Special Event directives.

A new clinical app is on its way! Here are the details:

The Ontario Base Hospital Group is pleased to inform you that a new clinical app for Ontario paramedics is coming!

All new app, all new name

In anticipation of creating a new app, we distributed a survey this spring about the naming of a new app. Thank you for completing our survey. We received lots of great suggestions for the new clinical app!

Spring 2022 CME features live events and online content

Spring 2022 CME is a two-part offering again this year, with both virtual workshops for live participation or recorded viewing and online learning modules. 

Two optional live virtual workshops are coming to Spring 2022 CME's core learning for RPPEO-certified ACPs! PCPs are also invited to participate in the live or recorded CME events.