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News and Events Press Release

22 Hours of Con Ed Now Available from EMS Boot Camp #EMS

In just a year the EMS Boot Camp project has built an archive library of over 22 hours of recorded EMT and Paramedic continuing education webinars. The multimedia CE lessons cover many important aspects of EMS. Each EMS Boot Camp webinar includes: Recorded video and audio of the session that you can watch anytime online […]

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EMS Tips

Severe Sepsis Training and Resources for EMS Professionals

This statistic really caught my attention – “Severe sepsis is fatal in 1 of four cases and will kill more than a million American’s this year.” A disease, or results of the disease, kills as many people as breast and lung cancer combined yet we hardly know anything about. Most of what I recall learning […]

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EMS Tips

App Review: CE Manager – track continuing education with iPhone App

This is a guest app review by critical care paramedic JD Graziano. If you want to guest post or review on this blog, check out the guidelines here. CE Manger is an iPhone app for the EMS professional that allows the user to lose the worry of keeping track of any education that he or […]

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EMS Education Tips Operations

3 Things Strongly Associated with Denial

These are three things strongly associated with denial: 1. Myocardial infarction (heart attack) 2. Cerebrovascular Accident (stroke) 3. Global Climate Change Here are three more things strongly associated with denial: 1. Efficacy of red lights and sirens response 2. Real risk of driving and using a mobile phone 3. Somebody else will do it Another […]

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EMS Education Tips

Lifelong Learning: I Still Regret Quitting Piano Lessons

I suffered through four years of piano lessons that were worsened by my lack of desire to practice, a crusty fossil of an instructor, and my genetic inability to hear pitch. I wanted to quit with every ounce of my being. Over and over my mother said, “if you quit now you will regret it […]

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EMS Tips

Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires

The Smokey social media campaign has asked me to remind you that forest fires are almost always preventable. Learn more at SmokeyBear.com and get your Smokey on. Wildfire plays an important ecological role. The catastrophic wildfires of today are partly a result of decades of absolute fire suppression which is magnified by the continual blurring […]

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Operations

Press Release: International EMS Adverse Event Reporting Website

The Center for Leadership, Innovation and Research in EMS (CLIR), along with its sponsoring organizations – the EMS Chiefs of Canada, the National EMS Management Association and the North Central EMS Institute – announced a new patient safety initiative. The EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool (EVENT) provides an anonymous tool for EMS providers and others […]

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Social Media Tips

EMS 2.0 | Making Blog Comments & Social Media

Here is a quick tutorial from Jim Hoffman, of the Authorized Transmissions blog, on how to make comments on EMS blogs and how to share your favorite blog posts with your social media EMS, paramedic and EMT friends. Your turn … leave a comment on this post, another Everyday EMS Tips post, or on a […]

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EMS Education Tips Operations

New Product Training Questions #FirehouseExpo

Today I am browsing the vendor booths and meeting clients and friends at the Firehouse Expo exhibit hall at the Baltimore Convention Center. Recently I have been spending a lot of time thinking about and developing programming for using online education for new product training. The training required for new products often times limits and […]

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Book Reviews Products

Book Review: Critical Care Transport

This is a guest book review by critical care paramedic, Michael Fraley, and critical care transport nurse, Colleen Herda. If you want to guest post or review on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Critical Care Transport (2011) American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American College of Emergency Physicians Series Editor: Andrew N. Pollak, MD, FAAOS […]