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EMS Educators: Our Favorite Apps

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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Reader Smartphone App Recommendations

An Everyday EMS Tips reader shared that these were a few of his favorite apps: Pill Identifier by drugs.com EMS BLS guide by Informed MEDSCAPE MedWords OSHA Heat Safety Tool Other apps that have been brought to my attention Emergency Response Guide 2012 NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards Paramedic Protocol Provider Additional apps recommended […]

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3 Hopes for Every Paramedic in 2011

Welcome to 2011. Sounds pretty cool doesn’t it. These are my three hopes for Every Paramedic in 2011. 1. Competency based continuing education that honors your time, experience, and knowledge. Many of you might just now be realizing that you have less than 90 days to meet the NREMT refresher and continuing education requirements (if you […]

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EMS Tips

3 Tips for Thanksgiving Airport Travel

I have been to a lot of airports this year – too many airports. If you are traveling this Thanksgiving holiday you might find these tips useful. 1. Remain Calm. If your flight is delayed, the plane is waiting for maintenance at the gate, the line at security is long, or a child is crying; […]

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News and Events

Announcement: Launch of DroidMedic.com

Do you use an Android powered smartphone? If yes, browse right now to www.DroidMedic.com and check out the great resources, how-tos, and app reviews to make your Android powered phone the ultimate EMS assistant. If you become a DroidMedic.com subscriber you will receive a free ebook. //

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4 Quick Announcements to Start the Week

A big thanks to my friends at EMS Manager and Fire Manager for their continued support of EverydayEMSTips.com. Their sponsorship helps support the maintenance and improvements of this blog. Check out a free demo of their online scheduling program now. (advertising guidelines) 4 Quick Announcements 1. This week I am at the National Association of […]

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Emergency Response Guide Apps

I was watching a presentation about EMS response to MCIs by Steve Kanarian on EMSBootCamp.com the other night and another viewer asked about the availability of the Emergency Response Guidebook as a smartphone app. I asked my Twitter followers and learned that there is an ERG app for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Droid. This is […]

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App Reviews

Free iPhone Apps

KevinMD.com posted a list of 10 free iPhone apps for Physicians. Scanning the list I think many of these would be useful for paramedics. The apps on the list that are probably the most useful to Paramedics include: 1. Medscape 2. Epocrates – I use the Blackberry version of this app 3. MedCalc 4. Medical […]

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How to Write a iPhone App Review

One of our goals at Everyday EMS Tips is to become the best location for EMS professionals to learn out about the best apps for Smartphones (iPhone, Droid, Blackberry). If you are using an app that you think is essential for EMS students or EMS professionals email me a review and I will share it […]

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App Review: BEIKS Paramedic's English-Spanish Voice Translator for BlackBerry

This is a guest post by Steve Lercari BA/BS, EMT-P. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Spanish Speaking Patients in the South Bronx Depending on where you work, language barriers may not be much of an issue for you. This is not the case for me as […]