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Map Your Neighborhood

This is a guest post by Ric Skinner, Editor of GIS in Hospital and Emergency Healthcare and the Stoneybrook Group LLC. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Disasters are major events that can strike anywhere and at any time. In a disaster, traditional “911” and First Responder […]

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Football … One of Many Metaphors for EMS Scene Size-up

Football can be a metaphor for just about anything. And just about anything can be used as a metaphor for EMS. Check out my latest EMS1.com column What Football Can Teach us About the Scene Size-up. In related football news: 1. My CoEMS Fantasy Football, Push to Shock, team experienced its first loss last weekend. […]

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Don’t Mess with the Texas EMT Patch

The Texas EMS patch is a red semi-rectangle with a silhouette of Texas in the middle. It can optionally include words like Texas Paramedic. As I mixed with the audience before my EMS World Expo presentation on Trends in Online Education I suggested to an attendee in uniform that his Texas EMS patch could use […]

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How I Used Audience Response Pads at EMS Expo #EMSExpo

At EMS Expo I used audience response pads during my two presentations to interact with the audience. The set of audience response pads I used were shared with me by  John Dillon of C3Softworks. Using the Turning Point software, an add-on for PowerPoint, I was able to embed questions into slides. When the slide opened participants […]

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Top Presentations and Exhibit Hall Education at EMS Expo 2010 #EMSExpo

The two top components of any conference are the exhibit hall and the education presentations. At EMS Expo the presentations were divided into multiple tracks including ALS, BLS, education, administration/management, and a general audience track. A lot of the big names in EMS – Steve Berry, Ken Bouvier, Heather Davis, Ray Fowler, Baxter Larmon, David […]

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News and Top Posts from September

Bloggers Epi Junky and the Happy Medic are leading an EMS for the Cure effort during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. EMS for the Cure – Challenge from Thaddeus Setla on Vimeo. After you finish supporting EMS for the Cure take a few minutes to check out these top posts from September at EverydayEMSTips.com that you […]

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Kiowa County EMS Leads Community Effort to Support Breast Cancer Research Foundation

This is a guest post by paramedic and service director Chad Pore. If you want to guest post or review on this blog, check out the guidelines here. October is breast cancer awareness month. We believe that EMS is an integral part of our community and feel it is important that we work to show […]

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10 EMS Expo Survival Tips #EMSExpo

Spending a week at the EMS Expo is a marathon of meetings, presentations, social events, and still trying to complete some of my normal work and family responsibilities. I arrived in Dallas for the EMS Expo on Monday night and will leave late Friday afternoon. These are my tips ten for surviving a long week […]