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Hiding From Fight in Your Locked Ambulance

By podmedic On May 23, 2013 · Add Comment
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Next up is a look at an obvious scene safety situation and how the EMS crew handled the problem. This comes from just down the road from me in Aberdeen, Maryland. EMS crews there responded to a sick person call [...]
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Shaking Up LA EMS and Fire Crews

By podmedic On May 22, 2013 · Add Comment
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First up in the news this week is a staffing shakeup in the Los Angeles Fire Department. Yep, LA Fire and EMS is back in the news this week. It seems that they are experiencing a surge in EMS [...]
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Rural EMS Excellence and MedicCast Episode 334

On May 20, 2013 By podmedic
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Shaking up LA fire EMS crews, locking yourself in the ambulance, changing rural CPR guidelines, and we'll have another in our series of interviews with EMS 10 Innovators from this year's EMS Today conference. If that's what you're looking for, you found it right here on this week's episode of the MedicCast for EMTs and paramedics.
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Teach CPR in Just 2 Minutes With AHA Video

On May 19, 2013 By podmedic
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Sometimes we make things needlessly complex. CPR is one example. Sure, if you need a course completion card, you have to take the whole class and get the facts, background and science behind CPR. But if all you need [...]
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Full Code Pro App for iOS Manages Cardiac Arrests (video)

On May 18, 2013 By podmedic
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This week I bring you another excellent mobile app for you for code management during cardiac arrest. In this case it's from the experts at the American Heart Association. They've taken all of the things they've been recommending about code management and ACLS guidelines, gathered them together and put them in a very useful app that may change the way you manage your cardiac arrest patients.
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Maryland Resuscitation Academy Day 2 Impressions

On May 17, 2013 By podmedic
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The second day at the Maryland Resuscitation Academy was focused on community and public interactions with a system’s cardiac arrest resuscitation efforts. It was about empowering officials to support your programs, public access to AEDs, funding [...]
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Day 1 at the Maryland Resuscitation Academy

On May 16, 2013 By podmedic
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I’m back in the office after a day at the Maryland Resuscitation Academy in Howard County, Maryland. It was an amazing experience and I enjoyed seeing other leaders from various Maryland EMS systems in attendance. I [...]
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Parents Text and Phone in Car With Kids

On May 16, 2013 By podmedic
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In the news this week, I revisit an issue that I looked at last month. If you remember, April was national distracted driving awareness month. I had a couple of articles and news items last month about texting and cellphone [...]
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Cinnamon Challenge Dangers to Teens

On May 15, 2013 By podmedic
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So you may have heard about the recently popular Cinnamon Challenge on the news recently. It’s become a way for some teens to dare their friends to do something stupid with what seems to be a harmless spice in the [...]
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Georgetown Mass FD Announces Switch To FIRE Manager For Scheduling

On May 14, 2013 By podmedic
May 8, 2013 – Georgetown, MA – As Georgetown Fire Department grew, handling staff scheduling efficiently, and fairly, became a major issue.  “We didn’t have a formal system in place and as our transporting ambulance service grew, we needed to [...]
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Solar Ambulance Leads Green EMS

On May 14, 2013 By podmedic
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Starting off the news this week is a story from Richmond, Virginia area. You know how you can pick out the systems leading the way in EMS innovation? They are the ones that consistently show up in the news with [...]
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Blast Injury Review, Part 2 and Episode 333

On May 13, 2013 By podmedic
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Solar Ambulance, cinnamon dangers, parents texting and we'll continue with part 2 of our series on blast injuries. If that's what you're looking for, you found it right here on this week's episode of the MedicCast.
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Mississippi EMS System’s Potential Scheduling Windfall (video)

On May 11, 2013 By podmedic
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Our sponsor Aladtec and EMSManager.net got ahold of me and told me something surprising. They have numerous customers using their unique, web-based EMS scheduling and management service - Except in the State of Mississippi! What's up with that?
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All Hazards Planning – Are You Ready?

On May 10, 2013 By podmedic
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I want to bring to your attention the concept of All Hazards Planning and preparedness for major events like the one in Boston on April 15th. Many individuals, paid and volunteer responders were in attendance expecting a large community event [...]
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Aging Pedestrians at Greater Risk

On May 9, 2013 By podmedic
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Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control recently released a report on elderly pedestrians saying that they are far more likely to die in a traffic accident than others. As the population continues to age, we can expect far more [...]
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EMT Librarian Searches for Evidence Based Practice

On May 8, 2013 By podmedic
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Kicking off the news this week is a feature article on another EMS blogger I found over at EMSWorld.com. It’s on Kacy Allgood, an EMT and librarian who is working alongside EMS providers in Indianapolis to help provide them research [...]
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