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Video: Emergency Department Gangnam Style

The wonderful combination of viral video, free time, and self-expression have no boundaries. From New Zealand, I give you ED Gangnam Style:

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EMS Education Tips

Video: Responding to an Incident

Video from YouTube, appears to be taken from the passenger side (officer seat). I think videos like this can be great a training tool: 1. Crew behavior – calling out hazards, repeating and reviewing dispatch information and radio reports, distracting conversation. 2. Reminder of risk – actual and perceived when responding lights and sirens. 3. […]

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Recommended Reading: Tranexamic Acid (CRASH-2)

What do you know about tranexamic acid and its use for the treatment of severe hemorrhage? I didn’t know much until recently so I am trying to get up to speed with some reading. CRASH-2 – Clinical Randomisation of an Antrifibrinolytic in Significant Hemorrhage – website A Cheap Drug is Found to Save Bleeding Victims Cartoon (comic […]

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Video: Coaching the Ambulance Driver

Things that probably are not helpful: Being very far away from the pupil Snarky comments Ridicule Sharing the poor performance and poor coaching with the world

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Social Media Tips

Alternate Posting Location: Memo to the Paramedic Class of 2013

At the 2012 NAEMSE Symposium Dr. Bill Raynovich mentioned in his presentation on teaching ethics with cases that the topic ethical challenge for paramedic students is navigating the confusing world of social media. His talk inspired this new column at EMS1.com, Memo: Social Media Training for the Paramedic Class of 2013. Additional Resources PIOSocialMediaTraining.com – […]

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Video: I Still Love the Radio

“Everything I had to know I heard it on my radio” Queen, Live at Wembley Stadium 1986 full length concert video has been helping me have a productive Friday afternoon. Other full length concert videos on YouTube

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Social Media Tips

Monitor the Social Web with RSS Feeds

Your EMS organization or fire department can monitor the social web using searches and RSS feeds. Step 1: Create at least one Google Alert for your department, organization or business. Consider other alerts for names of key personnel, community name with key words like fire and EMS, and other search terms relevant to your business […]

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Video: UW Harborview Trauma Conference

Catchy video for an upcoming trauma conference. All the elements of a brochure but in an online video that can be shared, linked to, and embedded.

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Video: AFSCME Support for EMS Week

Lots and lots of videos were posted on YouTube during EMS Week 2012. Find them all by searching YouTube. I will be posting a couple that caught my eye, but I didn’t have time to watch them all.

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Why Wait for #EMSWeek to Do These 20 Things

EMS Week is a week away, but you don’t need to wait until the official EMS Week to do any of these things: Increase your knowledge: sign-up for the free EMS Web Summit. Appreciate EMS in a different setting by reading a book by a paramedic/author. Join the conversation about EMS by leaving a comment […]