Battle tested: Ottawa's tactical paramedics are using war-zone developed gear

Originally published on February 3, 2017
Ottawa’s team of tactical paramedics might be found wherever there’s danger — stabbings, shootings, explosions, police raids, suspicious packages, hazmat calls.
And some of the medical techniques and products they’ll use at these scenes are coming straight from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.“We’ve learned a bit from the battlefields,” says Craig MacInnes, acting commander of special operations with the