Posts Categorized: Ems Safety
Keeping an Eye on the Sky
[caption id="attachment_206" align="alignright" width="300" caption="You never know what might come "][/caption]If some of you out there don’t know it yet, I’m away from my home area working one of my j…
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Wake Up! You may have a call…
How do you wake up for a call? Could that method be killing you? Here's an innovative way thought up by an intrepid inventor, complete with video.
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You Can Nap if You Want To! Or You can Leave Your Calls Behind!
You can Nap if you want to! You can leave Leth-ar-Gee Behind! Because EMS can nap and if they don't nap - they leave, Patient Care behind. - Introducing the "Safety Nap" Who's with me?
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Red Lights to the Left of them, Blue to the right! – Coloring Emergency Lighting
Ever pull over for a tow-truck or a snow plow? What's up with the lack of a standard for emergency lighting colors? It's confusing as heck..
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Sunday Randomness – Some EMS Pet Peeves
My Sunday Randomness seems to have devolved into a rant about some of my pet peeves in EMS. There's some old crusty complaints in there, I know... but every dang one of them will improve your care.
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The Drunk Responder
Greg Friese, over at Everday EMS Tips, has written a post in observance of Drug Free Work Week - Oct 19-25th, 2009 entitled "When a Coworker is Intoxicated" In it, he asks what we would do as EMS professionals and Firefighters in cases where we suspect …
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EMS 2.0 – Momentum Building
Over the last few days since I’ve been putting some posts up on EMS 2.0 there’s been quite a buzz circulating around the blogosphere. From this vantage point, it seems like we’re building some momentum to the movement and that is really exciting fo…
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Welcome to hell, feet
A while back ago, like Medic999, I was approached by Magnum Boot company about becoming a field tester for a new pair of boots. They asked me to wear their new boots for a while and write about them in my “Popular EMS Blog”. They’d send me new boot…
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Happy Wednesday!
One thing I've noticed since moving to this new blog network (Http://www.FireEMSblogs.com if you haven't been to the main page yet) is that my blogging worklad has increased exponentially. The other thing that I've noticed is that I've been getting men…
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A Shoutout to TOTWTYTR – The NAEMT? What?
I'm linking to TOTWTYTR, one of my favorite bloggers. I'm also calling out the NAEMT. Is there anyone who supports this group? Would someone come here and explain to me what the NAEMT does?
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Ol’ Butch and the Pullet Surprise – Not EMS but good stuff
John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of …
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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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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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Holy Crap! UK medics…
Y'all need a taser.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5364780/Knifeman-copied-scene-from-The-Shining-as-he-attacked-paramedics.htmlGlad that this kind of stuff doesn't happen where I am much. Medics get attacked all the time, and I am no different...…
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Some Behind the Scenes Info
The post after this, "Clean EMS - A Lifesaving Guide to Ambulance Cleaning" is a loooong one. Wow, I really wrote a bunch there over the 3 or so days that it took me to research and write that one.Probably not many people gonna be gettin down to the bott…
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Clean EMS – Lifesaving practices in Ambulance Cleaning
Here is a shocking statistic: According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nosocomial Infections (or Healthcare Associated Infections – "HAIs") defined as "… infections which are a result of treatment in a hospital …
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More about The EMT Spot
In addition to finding myself jealous over his CSS and .xml design skills, I found this post over at The EMT Spot.http://theemtspot.com/2009/04/14/are-you-the-opening-act-or-the-rock-star/#comment-674It's a great read.
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I forgot a reciprocal link!
Oopsie! The guys over at The EMT Spot (http://theemtspot.com) included a link to my site in their April EMS Blogosphere round up. I didn't find it until just now.http://theemtspot.com/2009/04/29/the-april-ems-roundup/Here's a reciprocal link. They're goo…
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