Congratulations to Kiowa County EMS, NAEMT National Volunteer EMS Organization of the year! They received their recognition and award last week at EMS World Expo. I was fortunate to be a reviewer of applications and used that experience to identify traits of excellent volunteer organizations that all of the applicants shared. Visit EMSWorld.com to read […]
Year: 2013
Attending EMS World Expo? In an EMS1.com column I encourage asking these two questions.
Distraction is Deadly: Understanding and Mitigating its Impact Distraction is Deadly: EMS World Expo 2013 Slides by Greg Friese from Greg Friese PDF of handout VFIS Infographic Get the infographic embed code
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New ECG Book and Resource Collection
Dr. Ken Grauer sent me an email earlier this week. His [amazon-product text=”ECG-2014 Pocket Brain” type=”text”]1930553250[/amazon-product] 4th edition is now available on Amazon. Remember you can find this and many other ECG Titles in the Everyday EMS Tips bookstore. Earlier this week I updated the most visited page on this blog, Where can I practice reading […]
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Reply to: This Isn’t Going to Work
On Tuesday I wrote 3 Things About Distracted Driving. I included the From One Second to Next documentary video about the destruction of texting while driving on several families. Today Seth Godin wrote This Isn’t Going to Work. His insights about the impossibility of changing driver behavior are spot on and sanguine. Go read his […]
My kids went back to school this morning. What a thrill it is too see them off on a new year of adventure, learning, and friendships. This morning the Portage County Sheriff was at the crosswalk on a busy county highway two blocks from school. A “your speed is…” sign was flashing. A deputy was […]
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Your BS Detector is BS
For a profession that prides itself on BS detection there sure are a lot of EMTs and paramedics falling for “news” stories from Call the Cops. It has gotten so bad that EMS1.com is warning readers to not be duped by story that NY EMTs can now drink on the job. Fake Pain? BS If […]
During my NAEMSE Symposium presentation, Handheld Wizardary, I asked attendees to share their favorite apps. I asked this question by text/email message using Remind101.com. Many attendees replied to me with their favorite smartphone apps. Action Movie FX Chrome Browser Dropbox Epocrates Facebook Google Translate Instagram NAEMSE Symposium Guidebook Paramedic Protocol Provider Pepid Pocket RX Safe […]
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Video CoPilot VL
Jay enjoys the blog and asked me to share this video about the CoPilot VL. If you are like me and have never heard of the CoPilot VL the video will be mostly entertaining. To learn what the CoPilot VL is visit their website. And yes, if you have a video laryngoscope I think you […]
For an EMS1.com column in July I did a round up of the best EMS podcasts. EMS Podcasts Educate and Entertain