Join us for another live recording of the MedicCast!
Tonight’s topic: Pediatric Treatment Issues
Episode on EMS providers’ concerns and tips for pediatric care.
The most important part of the show is you! Ask your questions in the chatroom or call in to the show Live using our call in number.
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The links and directions to join us are listed below.
Where: Talkshoe.com (MedicCastLive.com)
What: Pediatric Treatment Issues
When:Tonight, Tuesday, February 9th at 10 PM ET (7PM PT)
- Visit Talkshoe.com and click on the Live Now button at the top of the screen
- Select the MedicCast Live!
- Listen live, chat live or -
- Call in LIVE!
- Phone Number: (724) 444-7444
- Talkcast ID: 18174
- Enter your Talkshoe Pin number (it’s free to register or participate as a guest)
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Welcome to Episode 205
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EMS News—–
New EMS Rules Give Paramedics Less Latitude
MedicCast Cobra Bite Interview and Links
Man Critically Injured In Fall Through Skylight
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Tip This Week — Assessing Fall Injuries
Individuals in all age groups have a potential risk for fall injuries. Falls in children and adolescents tend to occur in homes, followed by schoolyards and playgrounds. Adults in the other hand tend to get injured from occupational falls. A large percentage of falls in adults have been associated with alcohol use. Older adults aged 65 and above are highly at risk for falls because of factors like poor muscle tone, poor balance, medication use, and frequency of falls increase from environmental factors including poor lighting and lack of safety devices.
In assessing fall injuries, EMS providers could determine the extent of injury resulting from falls depending on certain factors like the distance of the fall, the landing surface, orientation on falling, and whether the fall was broken. Though the height at which the patient fell is usually the first thing considered, low-level falls still can cause serious injuries especially if they hit their head.
For more on fall injury assessment, follow links below
Injury Prevention and Control from American College of Surgeons
Prehospital Trauma Life Support Page
CDC Injury Prevention Site : Falls
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Song this week:
Music from The Podsafe Music Network
Mike McGill with “Southern California”
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Until next time, Scene safety, BSI!
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Check out this great segment I recorded today with paramedic James Bender from Illinois.
James responded to the southern coast of Haiti to an existing medical clinic his volunteer group supports to provide disaster medical care just 5 days after the event. Listen to James as he talks about:
- Impressions about the damages
- Types of injuries seen initially
- Treatment of secondary trauma
- Problems with self-deploying responders
- Integration with local and internationals response
- Lessons learned to bring home to Illinois
If you are interested in becoming part of a local response group, consider becoming part of the Medical Reserve Corps in your area. You can find out more at MedicalReserveCorps.gov or contact your local emergency management office.
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Listen to the interview here. (Click to play or right click to download – Macs option-click)
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Welcome to Episode 204
The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network.
Right Click here to download (Macs Ctrl Click)
Subscribe with iTunes here!
A podcast for EMT’s, Paramedics, and other medical providers of all kinds.
Get the Brand New Commercial Free Version of the MedicCast!
Just $2 a month gets you enhanced podcasts, no commercials, and delivery via iTunes!
Sign up now and get the first week free!
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Sponsored by the MedicCast Extra,and MedicCast Store
Extra Content for MedicCast Listeners for less than $1 per day (via monthly subscription)
- NREMT Study and Prep Tips
- All Tips and Meds segments from the MedicCast and Nursing Show as separate downloadable files
- Special iTunes Podcast Feed for Members – Get the segments as a podcast
- Extra Members-Only content added monthly
MedicCast Listener Deals at GoDaddy.com
Code BLU27 gets you 10% off your order at checkout
Code POD27 gets you 10% off any web hosting order at checkout
Try them out and get your piece of the internet at GoDaddy.com!
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EMS News—–
Trapped Man Survives With Help of Phone App
Cobra Bite Challenges Maryland Poison Center and EMS
Aerial Ladder Used to Move Obese Man
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Tip This Week — Bariatric Patient Care
EMS providers like EMTs and paramedics often have to be resourceful and creative when it come to caring for obese patients. Because they are different from the standard patient, management of obese patients have become one of the complex challenges EMS providers might encounter.
Like any other patient, obese patients have right to expect professional and prompt emergency care, and providers have the obligation to deliver such care without risking their own health. Factors that should be taken into consideration include the availability of proper equipment and appropriate manpower, and the presence of protocols which provides the balance between providing patient needs and personnel safety.
Find out more on how to properly and carefully provide care for bariatric patients by following these links below.
Resource Assessment Tool for Care of Obese Trauma Patients (pdf)
Article: Rescuers Get Creative to Help Obese Patients
Heavy Subjects: Delivery of Emergency Care to Obese Patients
Essentials of a Bariatric Patient Handling Program
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Contact Me!
Call the Voice Mail Line — (941) 306-3342
email me at podmedic@mac.com
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Song this week:
Music from The Podsafe Music Network
Carrie Cunningham with “Single Life”
Songs from the MedicCast at the iTunes Store.
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Until next time, Scene safety, BSI!
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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Two things about this story catch your eye right away.
- Cobra Bite and
- Maryland?
While not native to Maryland, people do have cobras in local zoos, research facilities and apparently a few as pets on the “down-low.” When a woman was bitten recently, EMS responders contacted the poison center immediately about the incident the wheels began turning to find the appropriate medication for this patient’s injury.
Listen to our exclusive interview with Maryland Poison Center Toxicology Fellow, Patrick Dougherty, as he lays out the sequence of events and provides a few lessons for all providers out there.
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