The Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness

Join us for the upcoming webinar organized by the WADEM Latin America and Caribbean (LATAC) Chapter featuring two presentations - Health and Climate Change (Dr. Latoya Storr) and Crisis Communication Leadership (Dr. Jay McIsaac). Dr. Storr's presentation will focus on climate risks in the Caribbean, socio-economic impacts, and ways to achieve Climate Readiness using a disaster risk management approach. Dr. McIssac's talk will introduce the subject of crisis communications and emphasize the increased need for training in this area.

Register for this free event here - https://bit.ly/wadem-latac-2.

Don't miss next week's webinar organized by the Disaster Medicine SIG. "Unsafe Ground: Epidemiological Insights into the Health Impacts of Landmines and other Explosive Ordnance" - will be presented by Stacey Pizzino from the UQ School of Public Health. This event will take place at 21:00 PST (13 Nov.) / 14:00 JST, 15:00 AEST (14 Nov.) on Zoom.

Presentation Summary:
Explosive (EO), including , are the enduring legacy of war and threaten the health of affected communities across generations. For civilians within these communities, visible consequences are obvious and severe. However, there is a paucity of research evaluating the health impacts of these weapons; consequently, affected communities are often absent in global metrics.

This research addresses this knowledge gap by providing the world’s largest study of landmine and EO casualties evaluating mortality and non-fatal injury. Using the Hardly Reached Data (HARD) framework, developed as part of this research, data was collected from over 100,00 casualties across 17 countries. These data were pooled and analyzed to provide estimates of case fatality, mortality predictors, trauma distribution, and injury patterns.

Register here - https://bit.ly/wadem-eo.

Disasters and New Technologies - Dr. Vijai Bhola In the last podcast of this five-part series, Dr. Vijai Bhola discusses new technologies that can be deployed in an austere environment, including portable MRIs, electronic medical records, and in par

Improving procedures and tools to ensure the safety of participants in mass events such as a marathon.

Well done to the entire research team and drone pilots!

Feasibility of Live Video Feed Transmission from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Medical Surveillance During the 2022 Montreal Marathon | Prehospital and Disaster Medicine | Cambridge Core Feasibility of Live Video Feed Transmission from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Medical Surveillance During the 2022 Montreal Marathon - Volume 38 Issue 5

It is an unfortunate reality that active attacker events at workplaces are becoming more common, and health care workplaces are no different. Staff have been threatened, people have been harmed and others have been killed because of an individual or individuals actively engaging in attempting to harm or kill with a weapon.
These stories are well-documented, deeply upsetting and have led to changes to the ways in which health care settings prepare for and mitigate against these attacks.

Have a listen to The Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness latest podcast: Code Silver revisited.

Code Silver revisited | The CEEP Disaster Preparedness Journal Club Using a recent case publication from a Bronx hospital the panel discusses the conclusions of the paper and makes recommendations for preparing for and responding to an active shooter situation.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"

🚨NEW BLOG POST!!🚨
Cleaning up after the COVID party
Like the dirty dishes after a family dinner, the unopened boxes in the garage years after the move, or an unanswered ad for an old exercise bike, it's time to move on. It's time to leave the pandemic behind.

Cleaning up after the COVID party Like the dirty dishes after a family dinner, the unopened boxes in the garage years after the move, or an unanswered ad for an old exercise bike, it's time to move on. It's time to leave the pandemic behind. Not simply to “relegate the pandemic to an unpleasant memory” (1) but to learn from it. ...

SARS-CoV-2: what were the trends in infection-acquired and vaccine-induced immunity in Canada?

New articles this week on SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, minimally invasive procedures in gender-affirming care, delirium, and more ➡️ https://www.cmaj.ca/content/195/31

We are excited to offer this unique disaster medicine experience. This combines mind-opening discussions and excursions on disaster preparedness and response, with unparalleled cultural experiences. Because of the experiential nature of this trip (this is not sit-in-a-lecture-hall kind of CME) we are limited in how many people we can accommodate and we need at least 30 participants for it to be feasible. We are still a few short. We'd love to see you in Israel in January.

Visit our homepage www.ceep.ca for more information and pre-register now [email protected]!!

The Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness sends thoughts to the families & friends of bus crash victims and survivors. To Manitoba Emergency Services: paramedics, Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ontario, EMS/911 comms, STARS Ambulance, ESS, hospital first receivers, nurses and physicians & emergency managers - Thank You for diligence on what may be the hardest day in your career.

Six people remain in critical condition in hospitals in Manitoba with what are being described as significant injuries following a deadly collision involving a semi-truck and a bus Thursday afternoon on the Trans-Canada Highway.

6 remain in critical condition following Trans-Canada Highway crash in Manitoba Six people remain in critical condition in hospitals in Manitoba with what are being described as significant injuries following a deadly collision involving a semi-truck and a bus Thursday afternoon on the Trans-Canada Highway.

Wildfires have spread across Canada and the air quality is affected in many regions. Smoke can impact your health at even low levels. Read more about the air quality health index and what actions to take to protect your health:

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/air-quality-health-index/wildfire-smoke.html

You … never send me any of the new phrases of the town… Pray what is meant by wellness and unwellness?
(From History of Wellness, Global Wellness Institute). NEW BLOG POST!!

Pray tell, what is wellness? You … never send me any of the new phrases of the town… Pray what is meant by wellness and unwellness? (From History of Wellness, Global Wellness Institute) Haha. The pendulum has certainly swung a bit towards cliché since Dorothy Osborne penned this to her husband Sir William Temple in 1655. T...

We need your feedback! Emergency Medicine in Canada is failing its patients, its community and the caregivers within the system. We know this. We also know that the root causes of our problems extend beyond our departments. For us to survive our entire ecosystem must change.

The EM:POWER Task Force has spent the past 18 months probing the health care system with its many stakeholders, clinical and non clinical, to identify both challenges and solutions. The first draft of their report is now in your hands.

If we are to succeed in defining a new era your expertise as a Canadian emergency physician is crucial. Click the link below to give us your unfiltered thoughts and comments for discussion at We cannot do this alone.

Thank you.

EM:POWER Task Force on the Future of Emergency Care - CAEP Draft Report We need your feedback! Emergency Medicine in Canada is failing its patients, its community and the caregivers within the system. We know this. We also know that the root causes of our problems extend beyond our departments. For us to survive our entire ecosystem must change. The EM:POWE...

The Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness AGM is tomorrow afternoon! Just us using the zoom link below!

A friendly reminder that The Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness AGM & Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians - CAEP Disaster Committee Annual Meeting will be May 29th 2023 from 15:00 to 17:00 (Toronto) at the Westin Hotel, Dockside 6 room.

Also on Zoom at:
https://mcmaster.zoom.us/j/95060054543?pwd=bERxZitrZ2d0KzU0UTNoZVB6dllQQT09

Meeting ID: 950 6005 4543
Passcode: 971296

The agenda will include:
1. Review of last year’s minutes (previously circulated) (Daniel Kollek)
2. Past year events (Daniel Kollek)
3. Upcoming events
4. METER (Carl Jarvis)
5. Israel conference V2.0 (Daniel Kollek)
6. Good and Welfare
7. Adjournment
8. Closing of Disaster committee AGM and handing over to Dr. Jarvis for discussion of CEEP specific items.
9. Financial statements (Carl Jarvis)
10. Leadership - new board of directors (Carl Jarvis)
11. Leadership - Executive Director (Carl Jarvis)

This is a really good story illustrating why COVID deaths per week are the wrong metric.
COVID is a vascular disease. The acute respiratory phase ain't the half of it.

After N.B.'s deadliest year, COVID-related strokes and heart attacks are in the spotlight | CBC News New data from Statistics Canada suggests 9,288 people died in the province through 2022. If officially confirmed, the number will be a record for New Brunswick, obliterating the previous high set in 2021 by 1,179 deaths.

What if your avatar in Elden Ring had trouble firing an arrow on target or standing up after a rest? A new project is challenging video game players to try experiencing their favourite worlds with an added layer of difficulty: mods that give the character long COVID.

Forget hard mode — you can now play these video games on ‘Long COVID Mode’ to experience what patients do

An unprecedented new blog post has just appeared on the CEEP website!

“Would you rather.....a grey rhino or a black swan? An unprecedented choice.”

Would you rather... ...a grey rhino or a black swan? An unprecedented choice. I think the only thing about the word unprecedented that is true, is its use in everyday language. That word was Dictionary.com’s word of the year (2020), owing to civil unrest, the pandemic, US presidential elections, European politics, an...

NEWLY RELEASED!: The National Risk Profile is Canada's first strategic, national-level disaster risk assessment. It provides a national picture of the disaster risks facing Canada, and the existing measures and resources in our emergency management systems to address them.

https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2023-nrp-pnr/index-en.aspx?fbclid=IwAR04GnUIaKJ_2wMlZfRzNDrwxNH8Le-2nAoMbP-gW8se-a3m2TJHwz8F0Oc&mibextid=S66gvF

The First Public Report of the National Risk Profile The First Public Report of the National Risk Profile

Hot off the press!! invites everyone to participate in our online course entitled “Diaaster Preparedness in Healthcare”. CME credits available. Register now! https://caep.ca/disaster-preparedness-in-healthcare/

Yesterday, the emergency committee for mpox met and recommended to me that the multi-country outbreak of mpox no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern.

I have accepted that advice, and am pleased to declare that mpox is no longer a global health emergency.

Sending our most heartfelt congratulations to our own Dr. Trevor Jain, on not just one, but TWO awards from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians - CAEP! 2023 Emergency Physician of the Year, and 2023 Alan Drummond Advocscy Award!

COVID-19 is no longer global health emergency: World Health Organization https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-is-no-longer-global-health-emergency-world-health-organization-1.6385557

COVID-19 is no longer global health emergency: World Health Organization COVID-19 no longer represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday, a major step towards the end of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.9 million people, disrupted the global economy and ravaged communities.

Don't miss tomorrow's lecture organized by WADEM's Student and Young Professionals Special Interest Group. Dr. Mark Cicero from Yale University will be presenting - "It Will Happen Again: Pediatric Disaster Preparedness and Response" on Wednesday, 3 May at noon EDT (16:00 GMT). Register for this free lecture using the following link - bit.ly/41FUEOg.

Learning objectives from this lecture include:

- Understand similarities and differences between pediatric and adult disaster readiness;
- Consider scene stabilization, triage, treatment on scene, and transport decisions for natural and human-caused disasters; and
- Discuss means for EMS and Hospital disaster training and systems testing.

We hope you can join us!

CDC holds its COVID conference in person for the first time, and experiences ... a COVID outbreak.

Apparently they are now up to 35 cases and they are running an inquiry as to why no one at their own conference was following their own protocols

CDC meeting, intended to mark covid progress, sees virus cases of its own The conference for disease detectives hadn’t been held in person for several years because of the pandemic.

WHO warns of 'high risk of biological hazard' after Sudan fighters occupy lab - World News

WHO warns of 'high risk of biological hazard' after Sudan fighters occupy lab The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned of a "huge biological risk" after fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan occupied a central public laboratory. As per an AFP report, the laboratory was holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, and it being seized created an "extremely, extr...

CEEP Annual General Meeting - CAEP Conference, Toronto, May 29, 3 pm

The upcoming annual general meeting of the Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Disaster Committee will take place May 29th from 3 PM to 5 PM at the Westin Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto.

Below you will find a tentative agenda. We would welcome any suggestions for additional items to discuss, please forward to [email protected].

Exact room location as well as instructions for dialling in will be made available closer to the meeting date.

AGENDA
1. Review of last year’s minutes (attached)
2. Past year events
2.1.Podcasts
2.2.London conference
2.3.Updated website
2.4.Online disaster preparedness course
2.5.TFFEM (now EM-POWER)
3. Upcoming events
3.1.METER
3.2.Israel 2024
4. Good and Welfare
5. Adjournment Disaster Committee
6. CEEP specific items

https://shoutout.wix.com/so/caOUm4Iu3?languageTag=en&cid=583e1af9-3eeb-4975-9349-2441e6d949c6

Upcoming conferences!
Online courses!
Podcasts!
CEEP is humming!
Come to the meeting for details (because the minutes will never do it justice).

Annual General Meeting CAEP Conference, Toronto, May 29, 3 pm Hello all, The upcoming annual general meeting of the Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Disaster Committee will take place May 29th from 3 PM to 5 PM at the Westin Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto. Below you will find a tentati...

Friendly reminder - CEEP’s Annual General Meeting is on May 29, 2023 at 15:00 in Toronto. Virtual link will also be provided closer to the date. CEEP was formed out of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians - CAEP Disaster Committee.

Teamwork makes the dream work! EM is stronger because of our various committees. Consider joining one of the teams. is a perfect way to see what everyone is up to and decide if you want to become involved. https://caepconference.ca/committee-meeting-schedule/

Happy 75th birthday to the World Health Organization (WHO)!

In 1948, countries of the world came together and founded WHO to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health and well-being.

Join WHO on a journey to achieve ➡️ https://is.gd/uqXs8r