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News and Events

Boo! Play the EMS Halloween Trivia Game

Test your EMS, Halloween, and horror flick knowledge in the EMS Halloween Challenge from EMS1.com and C3Softworks. It is a real treat with a couple of tricks. //

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Dispatch Tips Guest Blogger

Teach your Child to Communicate with 911 Dispatcher

We have all heard the stories of the heroic young child who saved his mother’s life by calling 911 and telling the dispatcher what was happening. But how do we teach our own child to be that hero in an emergency? 1. Teach your child how to use your phone. Show the child how to dial […]

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EMS Tips

5 Tips for Engaging a Pediatric Patient's Parents

I was recently asked about my tips for engaging with a pediatric patient’s parents. The timing was perfect because I was coming up to a deadline for my monthly EMS1.com column. How to Deal with Parents at EMS1.com. //

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Safety Tips

The First Few Moments: Making the Scene Safer

This is a guest post by creator of the First Few Moments training program Kyle David Bates. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. As you roll-up on the scene of a motor vehicle crash you look through your windshield. “Hmm, 2 cars head-on. Driver in car one […]

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EMS Tips

Video: Customize your Android Powered Smartphone Part 2

Medic Madness continues his video series about customizing your Android Powered Smartphone. The apps on my EMS Screen, so far, are the weather channel, calculator, flashlight, and Google Maps with  more to come. My social media screen has apps for Twitter, Facebook, Ustream, and FourSquare. //

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Video Tips

Video: Everyday Heroes by Dave Carroll

Scott Ferguson sent me this video and a short blurb. This video features “Dave Carroll-  the “United Breaks Guitars” guy whose video went viral and has been featured on everything from The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to The View with Whoopie Goldberg. He is a good friend  and colleague who has been kind enough to […]

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EMS Tips

Greetings and an Ambulance Safety Lesson from Ireland

This is a guest post by EMS Safety Expert Jim Love. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. I am typing this from my hotel in the Town of Tullamore in Ireland.  Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit an Irish ambulance builder and converter.  I saw things I have never […]

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News and Events

EMS Week 2011 – Start Planning Now

Every year EMS Week seems to sneak up on service directors who hastily ask/assign volunteers to lead the EMS Week effort. The committee is asked to plan and execute an event on exceedingly short notice and with little to no budget. Then the efforts of the committee are either ignored or chastised for the low […]

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Health and Wellness

Injuries: Always a Concern for EMS Professionals

What, as educators and training officers, can you do to help prevent injuries? You could bring in speakers (perhaps from an insurance company) for formal presentations. One problem, though. That’s been done before and really hasn’t helped. Back injuries are still the number one injury among EMS professionals. So what is the problem? From my […]

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News and Events

Medical Author Chat with Michael Perry

Listen to my interview with author, medical first responder, and firefighter Michael Perry at the Medical Author Chat podcast blog. Michael is best known by fire and EMS professionals for his book, [amazon-product text=”Population 485″ type=”text”]0061363502[/amazon-product]. Give it a listen and let me know what you think.