Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Services has its eyes on a new research program.
In the works is a “treatment of pain” study for primary care paramedics.
Paramedic Services Chief Doug Socha tells Quinte News the local service is working with the Regional Ethics Board.
The paramedic service is working with a medical doctor out of Ottawa who is running a research team on the issue.
Paramedics do give certain medication, usually by injection.
This new feature would be inhaled.
Socha says, if the local paramedics run the research, it will be a short feasibility study.
He hopes to hear word soon on whether or not the research project has been approved.
Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Services has undertaken a number of research projects, including one with the use of drones and one in connection with a research lab in California.
