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Slide Share: Sepsis Summary

Adam Thompson posted this quick and informative slide deck about sepsis: Lcems sepsis summary from Adam Thompson Other sepsis training resources are shared in this post from the archives.

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Everyday EMS Athlete Profile: Gregg Mentzel

EMS professionals are challenged to balance work, family, and other obligations while also staying or striving for mental and physical fitness. The Everyday EMS Athlete is a regular column to recognize and learn from other EMS professionals that are setting and meeting fitness goals. This edition was contributed by Paramedic Greg Mentzel. Q: What is […]

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Video: Coaching the Ambulance Driver

Things that probably are not helpful: Being very far away from the pupil Snarky comments Ridicule Sharing the poor performance and poor coaching with the world

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Posts Outside the Service Area: Best of EMS World Expo 2012 #EMSWorldExpo

Blog Posts The Rogue Medic was reported to be at EMS World Expo. His many blog posts about the sessions he attended should suffice as proof that he was there. If you had a Rogue Medic sighting please provide forensic evidence that he exists as more than simply a smiley face. Rogue’s posts: Misrepresenting Current […]

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Collector Items: EMS World Expo 2012

Pictured: New Orleans EMS patch EMS1.com Challenge Coin CAE Healthcare Challenge Coin [amazon-product text=”ACLS 2013 Pocket Brain Book (amazon affiliate link)” type=”text”]1930553234[/amazon-product]

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3 Lists of 3 After EMS World Expo 2012

3 Ideas to Improve EMS World Expo 1. Shorter presentations or quick fire presentations with a series of presenters that each have 10-15 minutes to present a single idea, topic, or technique. 2. Online conference that features the “Best of” EMS World Expo. The top rated speaker from each track is invited to give a […]

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EMS World Expo 2012 Session Closing Comments

Overall Impressions of EMS World Expo Sessions The best and most skilled presenters were in the education track. Logically this makes sense as educators are the most often in front of and working a crowd. Presenters, set yourself free from your notes. Even though PowerPoint and KeyNote have the capability to show your slides on […]

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2012 EMS World Expo Session Notes

During EMS World Expo I was able to attend several sessions. Below are my notes and some links for each presentation I attended. Train the Trainer: Designing and Running an Injury Prevention and Wellness Program I was fortunate to sit in on about two hours of Bryan Fass’ pre-conference. I learned and will continue to […]

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PowerPoint and Presentations Discussed on EMSEduCast

The EMSEduCast is the podcast by and for EMS educators. We have discussed PowerPoint, Slide Design, and Presentation tips on several episodes: PowerPoint Best Practices for EMS Educators: Episode 25 Lights, Camera, Action: Episode 62 Visual Broccoli for Presentations: Episode 127 Gold Medal Presentations: Episode 142 I also recently posted about Effective PowerPoint Slide Design. […]

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Everyday EMS Athlete Profile: Tracy Chawgo

EMS professionals are challenged to balance work, family, and other obligations while also staying or striving for mental and physical fitness. The Everyday EMS Athlete is a regular column to recognize and learn from other EMS professionals that are setting and meeting fitness goals. This edition was contributed by Fire Chief and Paramedic Tracy Chawgo. […]