The Cricothyroidotomy app from MEDRILLS, available from the Apple AppStore and Google Play, is an interactive training program for learning and practicing a cricothyroidotomy. In the instruction mode a narrator reviews the process, from start to finish, including indications, equipment, landmark location, incisions, airway placement, and complications. Throughout the instruction mode animations illustrate key points. In […]
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Updated November 22, 2012: Handout for this session posted at EMSWorld.com. This morning I am presenting Integrating Smartphones into EMS Education at EMS World Expo in New Orleans. During the presentation I will be asking a series of poll questions with PollEverywhere.com. You can view and answer the polls as they happen at PollEV.com/gfriese. I […]
5 Alarm Applications™ recently announced their public release of the 5 Alarm iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® application . The 5 Alarm Exposure Recorder allows first-responders and healthcare professionals to document biological, chemical, environmental, and diesel exposures directly from the application. “My coworkers and I began to neglect our exposure reports because of the tedious […]
Is your organization using online education or training? My day job is as Director of Education for CentreLearn Solutions, LLC. I am responsible for building and maintaining our library of continuing education content. I also spend a lot of time with training officers helping them develop their own training content. The CentreLearn blog has been […]
Paramedic.Alltop.com is an aggregation of feeds from many of the top blogs from EMS bloggers. (note to EMS Blogs director, we should ask Alltop to include the feed for all new EMSBlogs.com blog posts) There is now an iPad app for Alltop that you can use to access Paramedic.Alltop.com and all of the other amazing […]
The new App, Google Currents, creates a digital magazine of Everyday EMS Tips. To access: 1. Install the Google Currents app on your Android device from the App Market or iPhone/iPad from the iTunes app store. 2. After installing search for Everyday EMS Tips 3. Subscribe to the Currents edition of Everyday EMS Tips 4. […]
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App Review: Phrase Board for the iPad
This is a guest app review by elearning designer Jenise Cook of RidgeViewMedia.com. If you want to guest post or review on this blog, check out the guidelines here. PhraseBoard: iPad Medical Application Imagine you’re in a hospital bed, or you’ve been in an accident, or a natural disaster. You’re unable to speak, yet you […]
Divergent Technology, a Vermont company, has created an iPhone/iPad application that lets EMS providers quickly and accurately track patient vital signs and other pertinent patient care data. Collecting patient information is difficult during chaotic emergency medical scenes. Traditionally, call data has been collected onto pre-printed ‘crib sheets’, notebooks, gloves, sheets, pillowcases, or whatever is in […]