Posts Categorized: Ems Protocols
If you could have anything you wanted…
I've got a question for all of you EMS types out there... If the sky was the limit, what would you ask for in your protocols? That's my task that I need your help with.
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Should EMS Improvise? And the Recipe for the “Kaiser Cocktail”
Sometimes EMS providers need to improvise for the best possible patient care. Here's something I use to treat mild hypoglycemia in the known diabetic. I'm asking for your opinion on this one, should I be doing this?
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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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Dear State of Illinois EMS…
State of Illinois EMS... We have to have a little talk. Can we save our relationship?
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Something I found in the Iowa State EMS Protocols
This is an excerpt from the newly released State of Iowa Statewide EMS protocols that I'd like to bring to the attention of the EMS blogosphere. Bravo to the State of Iowa for giving us the tools to improve the profession!
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EMS 2.0 & EMS Ethics – How far would you go?
EMS 2.0's going to need us to find answers to questions we haven't even asked yet. This is one of them. Where is the line between "progressive" protocols and "I ain't getting paid enough"?
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Advances in Resuscitation – CCR If you’re not doing it now, you will be
New advances in the fight agains Sudden Cardiac Arrest - There's some exciting results here. We seem to be getting a fighting chance.
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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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Introduction to the EMS Protocol Project
I'm starting a new blog, and there's another one ready to come. This first one is waaaay still in the works, but it's up. The address is: http://emsprotocols.blogspot.comWhat follows below is it's tentative introduction."EMS" for those of you who might h…
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EMS people in the audience
I have an awesome set of protocols from somewhere, I don't know how I got these and I don't know who will be using them (to protect privacy). These are draft protocols being considered for adoption by a small EMS system. If you e-mail me at proems1@yahoo…
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This is an amazing video
Thomas Paine - Common Sense for 2009 While this could label this blog as overtly political, and if I do that it mostly won't be here per se, I do think that anyone who comes here should know that I believe in what this guy says. Maybe not word for word…
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Good Link to Something I like
I found this link on one of the EMS websites I frequent - http://www.emsvillage.com/http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/columns/Bledsoe/Bledsoes_EMS_Scope_of_Practice_Model.htmlThis is Dr. Bledsoe's EMS scope of practice model. In this document, he out…
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What to write about, what to write about
As some of you have noted, I haven't been posting as often as I was. I'd like to assure you that this is not because of writers' block or lack of ideas, in fact, if anything it's because I have too many ideas. Right now, my desktop has like some 15window…
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It’s a beautiful day!!
Oh my goodness it is such a beautiful day wherever I am in Southern Wisconsin and/or Northern Illinois!!60 something degrees today, and a high of 70, count-em, seventy whole degrees tomorrow! And then snow on Wednesday… just a chance of flurries, it wo…
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