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Friendly Reminder: December Handover Submissions Being Accepted

Leanne is still collecting submissions for the December edition of the Handover Blog carnival. Stop over to her blog to read about the theme and submission process – it’s simple. A blog carnival invites bloggers to write on a theme. It is a good way to get recognition for your blog, an inbound link, and […]

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Posts Outside the Service Area: 2nd December Edition

As soon as I posted the last “Posts Outside the Service Area” I found a bunch of other websites and posts I wanted to share. The topic for the latest edition of the Handover Blog Carnival was Burn Out. Sixteen bloggers contributed to this month’s edition. Thanks to the Rescue Monkey for hosting. The Tactical […]

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May Top 5 Posts at Everyday EMS Tips

EMS Week related posts were the most visited content this month at EverydayEMSTips.com. Capture the enthusiasm from this year’s EMS Week and start using social media tools to promote your EMS agency year round. 1. 2010 EMS Week Planning Resources 2. EMS Week 2010: A Time to Think About Safety 3. 25 Ideas to Celebrate […]

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An OB Emergency is When It All Came Together

The nurse’s instructions were simple. “You two guys just wait here until Amanda gets back.” Then she handed me the other guy and walked out of the room. There I was holding, Michael, my newborn son. He and I were together and totally alone. And that is when it all came together. First Bath About […]

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Priority Posts from Outside the Service Area

I overheard some priority traffic from other EMS bloggers, publications, and education programs that I wanted to share with Everyday EMS Tips readers. EMSResponder.com Tom Middleton has an excellent article on MCI response tips at EMSResponder.com based on his experiences as a combat medic in Iraq and more than 20 years as a Firefighter/Paramedic. Tom […]

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EMS Education Tips

10 Important Tips to Respect your Students' Time, Knowledge, and Experience

As an educator my motto for any training that I develop or deliver is that it must RESPECT students’ time, experience, and knowledge. When I am a student this is also how I judge the quality of an educator and a training program. Did the training and the educator RESPECT my time, experience, and knowledge? […]

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Passion in the Blazing Heat of the Utah Desert

Adventure racers are crazy like a mouthful of jalapeno peppers. Teams of four racers had spent years training and saving thousands of dollars to race in an adventure race that would take seven to ten days to complete as they traversed hundreds of miles of the southern Utah desert on foot, on horseback, by bike, […]

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EMS Portrait: There is Always More to the Patient's Story

Jill lived pretty close to me in a town where I used to volunteer as a first responder. Most of her 911 calls were for things like “patient with MS needs lift assist” or “patient with MS has urinary tract infection” or “patient with MS has dislodged catheter” or even “patient with MS needs help […]

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Holiday Perspectives and Rememberances

I don’t really have many holiday EMS stories or calls that made the shift on a holiday. The holiday calls I can think of our pretty unremarkable. But a lack of something remarkable to say or write has never stopped me before … As an EMT Basic I responded on the 4th of July for […]

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Close Call: Response to Snowmobiler with No Pulse

A few hours after bar time our volunteer squad was paged out for a snowmobile rider that had hit a tree. As I left my house for the station I grabbed my parka, ski pants, and a headlamp. It was snowing lightly and the temperature was a little below zero (fahrenheit). We responded to the […]