Posts Categorized: Ems Paramedics
Two Cases, One letter – From one Paramedic’s struggles, change can come
A letter I got from a fellow Paramedic has caused me to write a long tyrade on the state of EMS. This post will make you mad. It will challenge you and challenge our profession. You will probably see yourself in the words this Paramedic wrote to me. We Need Change.
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Thank you EMS – Some reasons I love what I do
Have you thought for a minute why you do what you do? I have.. and today I'm writing down what it is I love about my chosen profession. EMS is awesome most days.
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Mental Quickness – Do Smart Alecks Make Better EMTs?
Input, processing speed, and decision making skills are all part of being a good EMT or Paramedic. How can we improve our own? By thinking about it in a new way... and by busting some chops too
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Fiddling While Rome Burns – The “Ambulance Industry”
If you read this piece and it ticks you off, I've accomplished something. We have to take ownership of our profession and our cause. It's always about the patient, but it's about us too... are we taking a cue from Emperor Nero?
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The Paramedic Intercept – Rural EMS
A series on the issues facing rural EMS and rural paramedicine - The ALS Intercept, or Paramedic Intercept, is a useful tool in extending the highest level of care to rural communities. I've done this from both sides and believe that it's a useful tool
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Paramedics Providing Physicals? Decreasing Healthcare Costs and Improving Care – EMS 2.0
Brainstorming ways that Paramedics and EMS could improve the Healthcare system and save money is part of EMS 2.0. Could a paramedic provide your next annual physical exam? Maybe we should.
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MCMAID Resuscitation Protocol
This is a new cardiac arrest protocol currently in use which is showing great success - This is a supplemental post to "Advances in Resuscitation - CCR, if you're not doing it you will be"
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Daily Training Topics 10/16/09
Daily EMS Training Topics from 10/16/09 - A link to a great article on IV placement and some quick BLS Airway skills refreshment. Can you find the hidden video?
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Could it be? A Good EMT-B Student?
EMS Students these days... What's with you? Was I like that? Probably. Here's a kid I had lately that I think's gonna be alright.
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The Medics are Revolting
Welcome to my new blog. Allow me to head off on a rant here, no use pulling any punches. EMS Needs some changin'. Here's how we're going to do it. Hint: It's together
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Ckemtp is now on Twitter and Facebook!
So I've finally joined the final frontier or something like that. After much prodding, teasing, cajoling, and downright coersion, Ckemtp has joined Facebook and Twitter.I'm Ckemtp on facebook and, coincidentally, @Ckemtp on Twitter (I think).At any rate,…
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Paying My Pennance
Ouch.
Today I begin what I am sure to be a long, arduous process of atoning for my every IV sin. Out of the tens of thousands of patients I’ve treated, I’ve gained intraveinous access thousands of times. Probably I’ve missed a thousand or two …
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Two blogs that I found in this long week that are just awesome
This is a light week for me, or at least a 7 day period. Yesterday I worked a 12, today a 24, tomorrow a 12, the next day a 24. Then I have a day off, then a 24 then a 12. So by my count, since Saturday and until Friday I'll have worked 108 hou…
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Soapy Demons – Ckemtp is a geek
Ok, so this post really proves just how much of a geek I really am. Just bear with me for a bit.
This subject causes me a lot of personal grief. I know that it probably shouldn’t and that I am indeed a geek for worrying about this issue because seem…
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If I wasn't so busy running calls today…
I would get a post up about EMS Ethics and patient advocacy involving a scenario for y'all...I would get more done on my new upcoming site that's going live (probably) early next week: http://www.lifeunderthelights.com/I would write a response to an…
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The Handover Blog Carnival – Funniest. Call. Ever – 9/25/2009
EMS people are some funny, funny, people. Oh sure, some of our humor is strange to the uninitiated. It's dark and disturbing sometimes... built from years of bearing witness to the macabre scenes of humanity that play out before us. Sometimes it's more s…
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I am not a medic…but I am Ck’s cousin…and he said "funny"…
This post was written by my cousin Jill. She’s a darn good blogger who writes a blog on her Myspace page. I’m trying to get her to move over to blogger… but have yet to be successful in my endeavors. She wrote this post for this month’s Handover.…
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Working on the Handover – Comedic Heavy Lifting
Remember those commercials for the cable TV station TBS that ran here in the US where they had the "Comedy Lab" testing stuff to see if it is funny?Well, this month's Handover Blog Carnival is WAY better than that.Remember back when Family Guy, The Simps…
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Scenarios. A lot of EMS, a little Einstein
A while back ago I had a kick where I did a scenario-based EMS ethics piece that took a look at a possible situation that could be faced by some Paramedics and asked readers what they would do in that case.
The response was pretty good. You should add…
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Passed HazMat and picked up a Blogroll addition!
I guess it's now somewhat more official... after much kicking, screaming, and crying... Ck is kinda now a glow worm. At least in certification, that is. I passed my HazMat Operations level class and now glow just a bit more than I did before. Honestly, I…
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Why I love this Job
Because the owner of this brand new Escalade will ultimately be happy that I'm tearing it apart with the spreaders. (Yep, that's Good Ol' Ck on the tool)
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Sunday, Random Sunday
Howdy everyone, welcome to my Random Weekend Post that’s just chock full of Grade A Weekend Randomness. Let’s get things started off here on the right foot with this:
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From the Obsessive Ambulance Cleaner – Tips and timesavers for keepin it squeeky
I am obsessed with clean ambulances. Shocking, I know. Really though, I scrub, clean, shine, and disinfect my ambulances so much I really ought to be locked up. At one job that I worked at for years my partners knew they never had to wash the truck. It w…
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Remembering Earl
This post is my submission to The Grand Rounds blog carnival that's being hosted by Medic999 over on his site. My regular readers are getting a sneak peak. Welcome Newcomers! Be sure to check out the normal day-to-day medic blogging at Http://proems.blog…
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EMS Trendsetters Conference 2009
http://www.emstrendsetters.org/Are you an EMS Person? Are you involved in Emergency Medicine? Are you an EMT, a Paramedic, a Nurse, a Doctor, a “something medical”? Are you interested in high quality continuing education provided in a fun and cool en…
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