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Screencasting Tips for EMS Educators

Screencasting has many potential applications for emergency response educators and training officers to discuss new or updated protocols, proper use of scheduling and ePCR software, or how to interact with other web-based content. Since most free screencasting tools, Screenr, limit the length of a screencast recording follow these tips for creating screencasts that are effective. […]

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May 2011: Top Posts

These were the top posts in May 2011. I appreciate all of the EMS Week related visits. Have you started planning for EMS Week 2012? EMS Week 2011: Ideas for the Theme of Everyday Heroes EMS Week 2011: Start Planning Now Green Bay Cellcom Marathon Race Report

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Health and Wellness

Bay Area Paramedic Journal Club Cycling Kit

Planning a long bike ride for Sunday morning. I will be looking F-I-N-E in my new cycling kit from the Bay Area Paramedic Journal Club. BAJPC.org //

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Video: Paramedic Intern Demonstrates Intubation Technique

I first saw this video of a paramedic intern demonstrating intubation technique on the 510Medic.com blog. There are a bunch of things I like about this video: 1. Medic students dressed in uniforms and PPE … they look like paramedics. 2. Use of medical terminology. 3. Narrating his own actions. 4. Clear instructions to his […]

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Video: Your Call is the Only Call That Matters

Watch this video. From the video description, “Paramedic turned Defense Attorney, David Givot, discusses the importance of staying focused on one call at a time and NOT being tempted to dump, ship, or abandon a patient because a more exciting call has gone out over the radio.” Not listening to other call-outs is a skill […]

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Moulage for EMS Scenarios and Simulations

Taking pictures of actually injured or ill patients is logistically difficult and often requires a lot of luck to encounter the specific patient for the specific situation you are describing in a lesson. Thus I do a lot of custom or staged photography of injured or ill patients to use in e-learning lessons. Moulage is […]