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Video: EMS Week Egg Cracking Contest

Best part of this video is the description, “For EMS week, the Hillsborough County Supervisors always cook breakfast for the Paramedics, EMTs, 1st Responders, …” What a great reminder that EMS Week should be first about honoring and thanking EMS instead of asking EMS to do something additional like a health fair, open house, or […]

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Video: National Collegiate EMS Week

University of Dayton EMS Squad video from National Collegiate EMS Week. What should the world know about your EMS service?

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Video: County of Simcoe EMS Week

From our friends in Canada. Nicely done video about the value of this service to their community.

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EMS Week 2012: Can you top this video?

Farooq Muhammad of FDNY EMS sets a high bar for EMS Week videos. Can you top this video? If you think you can you better start planning for EMS Week 2012 now.

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Posts Outside the Service Area: June 2011

Wearing a Watch When I wear a watch, which is not very often, I either wear a Timex off the shelf Ironman or a [amazon-product text=”Garmin Forerunner 305 Watch” type=”text”]B000CSWCQA[/amazon-product]. I run and cycle with the Garmin and value the pacing information. I run foot races with the Timex and record my own mile splits. […]

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2011 EMS Week Videos: Toronto EMS

During EMS Week 2011 Toronto EMS posted a lot of videos about their community activities: Wellness Clinic Window Safety Devices to Prevent Falls Paramedic Skill Demonstration

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EMT Podcast

Medical Author Chat: 2 New Episodes

Two new episodes of the Medical Author Chat podcast were posted during EMS Week 2011. In each episode I talk to an EMS professional who is also an author. Mike Cyra author of Emergency Laughter Podcast: Interview with Barry Bachenheimer author of Please Don’t Dance in My Ambulance Barry suggests using [amazon-product text=”Please Dont Dance […]

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EMS Week Video 2011: eBroselow.com Apps for Pediatric Patients

Sorry I didn’t find and post this video sooner. In the video James Broselow, inventor of the Broselow tape, sends EMS Week greetings and also announces that his company was giving away free copies of its pediatric assessment applications on Wednesday, May 18. (two days ago)

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EMS Week 2011 Video: Message from the CEO

Lots of YouTube videos were posted from ambulance agency CEOs, COOs, etc. Based on the video views not many of the field providers received the links or watched the videos, but the intention is noble. Happy EMS Week from National EMS COO Happy EMS Week from Rural Metro CEO

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EMS Week 2011: Music Videos from Shock Advised

This is one of several covers from the band “Shock Advised.” If you visit their YouTube channel you can also see them performing in the apparatus bay. It appears as if they are playing an EMS week barbecue. Also wondering if this is Sean Eddy’s (MedicMadness.com) band??? And a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T for EMS …