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EMSEduCast Podcast – Focus on Cardiac Arrest

In a three episode series the EMSEduCast podcast focused on sudden cardiac arrest. Episode 43 – journal club focus on sudden cardiac arrest research. Discussion about a set of articles related to sudden cardiac arrest resuscitation, implementation of the American Heart Association 2005 Emergency Cardiac Care Guidelines, and the concept of a Resuscitation specialty centers. […]

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Office Hours Podcast: Patient Hand Off and EMS Safety Episode 8

During this episode of EMS Office Hours Jim Hoffman and I had just finished the EMS Boot Camp session on Medical Control Consults. This led us to discuss the ins and outs of giving reports to other healthcare providers, particularly during patient  hand offs to intercepting ambulances. We also talked about some specific safety awareness issues when […]

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Press Release: iPhone App for Managing Mass Casualty Incidents

“MCI Triage” is an iPhone App for EMS paramedics, ambulance officers, firefighters, law enforcement and other emergency service personnel to help manage mass casualty incidents. It builds on the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (S.T.A.R.T.) system, originally developed in 1983. With simple button prompts and on-the-fly calculation of triage categories, “MCI Triage” makes it easy […]

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First 10 Episodes of the Medical Author Chat

The Medical Author Chat podcast from EverydayEMSTips.com interviews paramedics, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals about books they have written. In each episode we discuss the author’s medical practice, reason for writing, what their book is about, and a favorite part or story from the book. In each episode I ask the author for their […]

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Teaching CPR to Kids

This is a guest post by Steve Lichtenberg. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Can you teach children CPR? The short answer is yes. There are a few differences when teaching children as opposed to adults. Children will take the whole process very seriously and are more […]

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Video: Reactions to the Chronicles of EMS Premiere #CoEMS

EMS1.com produced this video at the Chronicles of EMS premiere. Listen to the reactions of cast, production staff, and members of the live audience. ParamedicTV is powered by EMS1.com View episode 1 of the Chronicles of EMS here.

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App Review: BEIKS Paramedic's English-Spanish Voice Translator for BlackBerry

This is a guest post by Steve Lercari BA/BS, EMT-P. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Spanish Speaking Patients in the South Bronx Depending on where you work, language barriers may not be much of an issue for you. This is not the case for me as […]

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Eat Some Pancakes

Today (February 23) is National Pancake Day. Go eat or make some pancakes. I think stopping for lunch or dinner at IHOP would be a great public relations event for any EMS agency.Today IHOP is giving free short stacks all day and encouraging patrons to donate to several children charities. Learn more about National Pancake […]

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Write Lifesaving Blog Posts

This is a guest post by David Konig. This post originally posted at PIOSocialMediaTraining.com. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. One of the questions I seem to get quite a bit is how hard is it to write a blog post? The short answer is that it […]

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Passion in the Blazing Heat of the Utah Desert

Adventure racers are crazy like a mouthful of jalapeno peppers. Teams of four racers had spent years training and saving thousands of dollars to race in an adventure race that would take seven to ten days to complete as they traversed hundreds of miles of the southern Utah desert on foot, on horseback, by bike, […]