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Advances in Resuscitation – CCR If you’re not doing it now, you will be

By in Life Under the Lights at October 17, 2009 at 3:54 pm
New advances in the fight agains Sudden Cardiac Arrest - There's some exciting results here. We seem to be getting a fighting chance. Read More »

MCMAID Resuscitation Protocol

By in Life Under the Lights at October 17, 2009 at 3:16 pm
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" Read More »

Daily Training Topics 10/16/09

By in Life Under the Lights at October 17, 2009 at 12:36 am
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? Read More »

Could it be? A Good EMT-B Student?

By in Life Under the Lights at October 16, 2009 at 7:53 am
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. Read More »

The Medics are Revolting

By in Life Under the Lights at October 15, 2009 at 9:59 pm
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 Read More »

Ckemtp is now on Twitter and Facebook!

By in Life Under the Lights at October 14, 2009 at 8:57 pm
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,… Read More »

Paying My Pennance

By in Life Under the Lights at October 13, 2009 at 2:59 am
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 … Read More »

Two blogs that I found in this long week that are just awesome

By in Life Under the Lights at October 12, 2009 at 2:58 am
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… Read More »

Soapy Demons – Ckemtp is a geek

By in Life Under the Lights at October 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm
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… Read More »

If I wasn't so busy running calls today…

By in Life Under the Lights at October 9, 2009 at 10:26 pm
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… Read More »

Alternative Circulatory Access Strategies – Hi Ho IO

By in Life Under the Lights at September 20, 2009 at 9:41 pm
A while back ago, Steve over at http://theemtspot.com wrote a great post on Gaining IV Access. In the post, he’s got some great strategies for getting your IV starts every time. But, as we all know, sometimes you just can’t get the darn catheter t… Read More »

Deadline Monday 9-21! The Handover Cometh!

By in Life Under the Lights at September 20, 2009 at 12:40 am
On Friday the 25th of this month The Handover Blog Carnival, the biggest, best, first, most awesome, and a whole lot of other superlatives blog carnival featuring awesome bloggers from the EMS, ER, and A&E blogosphere is coming right here to Life Und… Read More »

Another Night on the Box

By in Life Under the Lights at September 17, 2009 at 5:27 am
I love my Job. I love the Pay. I want to be here every day. Oh wait, I AM. Don’t get me wrong here folks, my Abusive Co-Dependent relationship with EMS is a loving one. I couldn’t imagine not being a paramedic. I couldn’t imagine not being a … Read More »

The Handover is coming! – Deadline 9/21/2009!

By in Life Under the Lights at September 16, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Howdy everyone! I cannot wait for my chance to host the upcoming edition of The Handover Blog Carnival, the premier EMS blog carnival on the Interwebz. Look for some cool things that I'll be throwing in there with what is already shaping up to be some gr… Read More »

Easy Microbiology for EMS – Really cool

By in Life Under the Lights at September 14, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Here are two quick videos that I thought were very, very cool. You'll feel smart after the first one... then not so smart after the second. Enjoy.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZEqQ1cpmk&hl=en&fs=1&]Ok, after that one. You should b… Read More »

Did y'all read this? – Rerun

By in Life Under the Lights at September 11, 2009 at 3:27 am
Howdy everyone,  I've been just plain busy over the last few days and I'm sorry that I've not been posting as much as I usually do. Bear with me though, I've got some good stuff on the burner. Big things are coming. Cool things too (I hope!)  S… Read More »

TOTWTYTR has a great post on Fire Based EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at September 10, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Sorry about the lack of posting for a day or so, y'all. I've been really busy (and there are some huge things on the horizon!) but in the spare time I've had, I've been reading some of the other really great bloggers out there. TOTWTYTR has posted a grea… Read More »

The Grand Rounds meets EMS – At Medic999

By in Life Under the Lights at September 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm
My buddy Medic999 is hosting the Grand Daddy Medical Blog Carnival of them all over on his site http://medicblog999.wordpress.com/ - Head on over and check it out. There's a ton of good stuff over there. Wow, a lot of stuff I hadn't read too. It's g… Read More »

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