Posts Categorized: Ems Training
Changing Cardiac Care – Being Suspicious
A study published in the JAMA may have big implications for how we treat "Chest Pain" patients. It changed my care, will it change yours?
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GPS in the Ambulance – An overreliance on Ms. Kitty
Do you have a magical voice box on your dashboard that tells you where do go? Do lives depend on it?? Maybe you might want a backup plan.
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EMS 12-lead Case – Ischemia and Failure
The 12-lead was no better. It showed bad, bad mojo. This poor guy was sick.
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Does How Your Brain Works Affect Your Patient Care?
If you're a regular reader, you know by now that my brain works differently than well... a lot of people's do. How does your brain work? How does that affect your care? How does this affect EMS?
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Assessing Greatness – Catching the stuff you’re supposed to
Have you ever felt that sinking feeling you get when you've missed the obvious? Here are some things to think about to help you catch your zebras and be great at patient assessments.
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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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Back in the Saddle Again!
After a short, unscheduled break... I'm Back Baby! Here's something that made me laugh till I cried this morning. I love EMS.
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Colorado CRNAs Vs. Virginia Physicians? An interesting feud for EMS
This article caught my interest, it's a feud between CRNAs and Anesthesiologists from Colorado to Virgina. There's a lot to learn here for EMS 2.0.
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EMS case law? AMA Refusals, Death, and Documentation
This post highlights a recent piece of EMS case law where an ambulance service was successfully sued over an AMA refusal and a patient's subsequent death... It's a must read
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What Difference Does EMS Make? Choose Your Own Ending
I got a little philisophical with this post and I'd like you to pick the ending I should use. What do the three cases I present mean to you?
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Too Much Information For a Paramedic?
Our friend Greg Friese was told that a class he taught was "too much information for a paramedic". Now there's three bloggers ranting, good job there, Anonymous Student Evaluation.
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EMS: Is what you do the Best You Can Do?
"Is that the best you can do?" Those seven words are so simple, yet when asked of ourselves and others, can become so powerful. Is what you're doing in your EMS career the "best" you can do? Think of what we could accomplish if all simply "tried our best".
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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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Police Car Drivers, Ambulance Drivers, and their responsibilities
A news story I read on EMS1.com via Twitter today caught my interest. Can you identify the three professions in the picture before someone dies?
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A Slap in the Face to Paramedics Everywhere?
Maybe I'm way off base here, but I'm just plain ol' irate. I saw this ambulance on display at FDIC last weekend and I think it's a full-on slap in the face to paramedic types like myself. It's real, I took the picture myself.
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Saved by the Bell? High School Student EMS
Remember High School? I do. I was the geeky kid who did show choir. I played football too, though. I was young, naive, and inexperienced. I also desperately wanted to be on an ambulance before I was 18. Was that a good idea? Some communities are doing just that. I was for it... but should I have been?
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Trust… It’s everything
This post is about when "Stuff gets real". It's about trusting your colleagues and yourself to perform when everything's on the line. It's about trusting your fellow EMTs and paramedics to perform when it's your loved-one on the line. Do you trust them? Do you trust yourself?
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3am with Ckemtp – (See Gus? I can do that too)
It's midnight, I have to be up and out the door at 3am to fly out to EMS today at 6am. I'm excited, but it's cold and Mama Juggs keeps setting off the tones.. then Gina keeps elbowing me and telling me to go to the station to do paramedic stuff...
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Guest Post – From JDmedic on Two Cases, One Letter
A response to a recent post "Two Comments, One Letter - From One Paramedic's Struggles, Change Can Come" sparked a good guest post from one of my readers. This is a guest post by JDmedic. Nice job.
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Why I am Passionate about the Chronicles of EMS
I am energized, passionate, and genuinely excited about the Chronicles of EMS. I'm in 100% - Here's why you should be too.
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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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EMS practice
What does Highschool Football Practice have to do with EMS? Does passing a football have anything to do with passing a tube? Maybe it does
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Uh oh, is it that time again? EMS Recert Time Cometh…
I'll betcha that a lot of you reading this are in the same boat that I am... Here's the reminder!
Yesterday I had the occasion to pull out all of my various certification cards and licenses, photocopy them, and turn them in to one of my departments fo…
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Education vs Training: The “Professional Ambulance Cleaner”
Imagine if you will this hypothetical scenario:
You and your roommate have just graduated EMT school together and go to work at competing ambulance companies in the same city. He works for HIS ambulance service, and you work for YOUR ambulance service. Both services have similar fleets, similar deployment patterns, and similar call-volumes. In fact, there’s really no way to tell them apart other than the fact that the HIS ambulance service uniforms are sickly green jumpsuits, and YOUR ambulance uniforms are Macho Blue Shirts with navy blue pants.
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Cardiocerebral Resuscitation – Change brings Fantastic results
Some more information on the amazing, revolutionary procedure that is Cardiocerebral resuscitation. Be prepared here, folks. This stuff will blow your mind.
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