August 27, 2006 @ 11:03 pm
Welcome to Episode 30
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Link of the Week — EMS Live Podcast
EMS Live!
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News:
Paramedic Delivers His Own Baby
Patients Profiting From Ambulance Trips
Asthma Drug/Steroid Combo Alert
Signs and Symptoms (page 2)
Marfan’s Syndrome Story
Football Injuries
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Tip and Trick of the Week: Football Injuries
Web MD Football Injuries Story
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Med of the Week — Sodium Bicarbonate
Rx List on Bicarb
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Peter Canning Interview Next Week!
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Music from The Podsafe Music Network
This week
“My Pick-up Truck Never Let’s Me Down” by Doc Bates
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Until next time, Scene safety, BSI!
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August 22, 2006 @ 6:41 am
There’s a recent article about the expected increase in children’s asthma attacks.
According to data from hospital emergency rooms collected by the American Lung Association, there is a peak in treatments of children with asthma about 18 days after Labor Day, corresponding with the return to school for most kids across the country. A study from Canada backs this up.
Stay on your toes in the coming weeks and make sure you review your treatments for asthma in children. A little review now could prevent a tragedy from happening later.
I’ll be posting a new MedicCast News at the Podcaster News Network tomorrow with some other interesting stories.
Jamie Davis
The Podmedic
August 20, 2006 @ 10:59 pm
Welcome to Episode 29
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A podcast for EMT’s, Paramedics, and other medical providers of all kinds.
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Link of the Week — FDA’s Medline Plus
Medline
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News:
Paramedic Training Scholarships
British Columbia Considers Scholarships
Minor Calls Tie Up EMS article
High Fuel Prices
Drug Resistant Staph Infections on Rise
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TG3 Podcast and Host Joel — Thanks for the help!
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Tip and Trick of the Week: When is there a Duty to Act?
EMTLife Forum Ethics Thread
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Med of the Week — Oral Glucose
Maryland EMS Protocols — go to the BLS Pharm Section
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Music from The Podsafe Music Network
This week
“The Last of The Superheros ( of the 1970s)” by American Heartbreak
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Until next time, Scene safety, BSI!
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August 17, 2006 @ 9:47 pm
FDA advisories (recall notices) on AED’s is not getting to the end users according to an article originally posted in JAMA. Some estimates indicate that as many as 20% of AED’s have some kind of fault that affects their safe operation.
The study of AED malfunctions determines two key points:
- The existing notification system used by manufacturers to announce recalls is ineffective.
- The number of malfunctions annually is under-reported.
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Take some time and check out the Manufacturer’s Site for your AED’s or check out this page at the FDA website. You can sign up for email alerts on recalls, safety alerts, or 20 other topic areas.
Check in this weekend for the next episode of the MedicCast.
Jamie Davis
the Podmedic
August 16, 2006 @ 9:34 am
As the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, we all bring to mind our collegues who died trying to save others that day and the heroic actions of those who continued after the collapse to keep the rescue efforts going. It is the latter group that is focused on by a University of San Francisco researcher. Professor of Medicine, John Balmes says that there was a significant effect on the long term health of the workers at ground zero after the fact. He claims that they lost 12 years of lung function in just the one year of work and cleanup.
The doctors can make this claim because they had been studying the loss of lung function amongst New York firefighters starting in 1997 and had tracked a steady loss of 31 milliliters of lung capacity every year until 2001. After 2001, workers showed an average loss of 371 milliliters or the equivalent of 12 years of losses tracked by the earlier part of the study. While it is unsure whether there will be a recovery of function from that rapid loss but it does point to an increased rate of COPD in the future and is more evidence that the recent deaths from pulmonary diseases by ground zero workers was at least partially caused by their involvement in that disaster.
Article Link at JEMS.com
I report on this and other EMS news in the most recent episode of the MedicCast News at the Podcaster News Network.
Jamie Davis
the Podmedic
August 14, 2006 @ 1:49 am
Welcome to Episode 28
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A podcast for EMT’s, Paramedics, and other medical providers of all kinds.
Thanks for all of the votes at the Podcast Awards!
The MedicCast was featured in another Newspaper article
Some New MedicCast Site Features
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Link of the Week — FDA Alerts by Email
FDA Medwatch
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News:
EMT Recants Story
Gay Patient Not Mistreated
Viagra Notification
TSA Using First Responders
A.C.E. Inhibitors Study
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Scribe Music Show Podcast and their End of the Summer Contest
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Tip and Trick of the Week: Politics and EMS
NAEMT Site
U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Reps
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Med of the Week — A.C.E. Inhibitors
A.C.E. Inhibitors — Wiki
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Don’t forget to support the mediccast!
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Thank you for listening in. If you want to get a show update email, send me an EMAIL with “Update” in the subject line
Check out the MedicCast News at the Podcaster News Network for EMS news updates during the week and check back here next week for the next Episode of the MedicCast.
The MedicCast is a proud member of the Blubrry Podcast Network. Check out Blubrry for all podcasting needs (listeners, podcasters, advertisers).
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Music from The Podsafe Music Network
This week
“Hey, Hey Sister” by Laura Clapp
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Let her know that you heard it here on the MedicCast!
Until next time, Scene safety, BSI!
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August 13, 2006 @ 8:34 am
The second of two interviews I did about the MedicCast Podcast have been posted. This one is very well written with only a few minor factual errors but overall a great piece about both me and the show.
I’d like to apologize to my wife, Amy. In the article, I’m quoted as saying that she’s not very outgoing. I meant to put that in context of being compared to me but the article didn’t quote it that way.
Here’s a link to my post about the first article.
Here’s the text of the article as it appeared in the paper:
Paramedic’s talent benefits EMTs
Courtesy of Mindy Davis
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Jamie Davis, of Rising Sun, Md., produces “The MedicCast” podcast for EMTs.
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By PETER BOTHUM
The News Journal, 8/13/2006
It might not have seemed like the brightest idea at the time, but Jamie Davis’ decision to end a career as a film and sound engineer has put him exactly where he wants to be.
After all, the Rising Sun, Md., resident’s quote-unquote work consisted of handling sound for TV at Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Orioles games and manning the boards for comedians Dennis Miller and Bill Maher during their lampoons of the State of the Union Address.
The switch started a domino effect. Davis ditched the biz to be a stay-at-home dad and take care of his three kids: Christopher, 12, Mindy, 11, and Saralynne, 7.
Staying home with the kids was great, but he yearned to talk to some adults every now and again. So Davis became a volunteer paramedic and firefighter with the Rising Sun Community Fire Company.
Being a volunteer paramedic made the curious and industrious Davis yearn to learn more and hone his craft, so he went searching for a podcast for EMTs.
He couldn’t find any.
So Davis started his own, “The MedicCast,” in February. On the show, Davis answers listener e-mails, covers specific medical topics such as blood clots and digitalis and offers tips for paramedics. The show also makes good use of the communications degree he earned from McDaniel College, a small college in central Maryland.
“This podcast allows me the ability to do the things I was originally trained to do and what I’m passionate about, which is being a paramedic,” said Davis, 41.
Davis would have been more than happy to lounge in cyber anonymity, picking up new subscribers here and there and slowly upgrading his podcast.
But a few of his listeners nominated him for the 2006 Podcast Awards, and Davis’ show was picked as a finalist in the health and fitness category, beating out 100 other shows.
The hardware will be handed out Sept. 29 at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, Calif.
Earning the big nod has helped garner some recognition and attention for “The MedicCast.” Davis said he has about 250 listeners right now, and that his base of listeners has been growing at about 20 percent per month.
The best part about it is that Davis can grow and build the podcast without sacrificing his priceless family time. Although it takes about six hours for Davis to put together the 45-minute podcast — four hours for prep time, two hours of recording — he does so from the comfort of his kitchen table on a Sunday night.
“Family comes first with me, and that’s not going to change,” said Davis, who grew up in Westminster, Md.
Davis has even managed to get his family in on the act. His wife, Amy, delivers the show’s intro, though she needed a little nudging.
“She’s not a very outgoing person at all,” Davis said. “She did a great job.”
Contact Peter Bothum at 324-2885 or pbothum@delawareonline.com.
August 11, 2006 @ 8:03 pm
With the voting for the 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards coming to a close tonight, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support. The winners will be announced on August 15th. What ever the outcome, I have come out a really big winner in terms of exposure, publicity, and most importantly, realization of the huge support from Listeners, Family, and Friends.
I have renewed my focus on improving both the site and the podcast. Some of those improvements are visible already:
I’ve cleaned up the Pages and Categories you see in the lefthand column of the main webpage. I’ve gotten rid of categories and pages that I wasn’t utilizing and I’ve added content to the contact and about pages.
I’ve also compiled two list pages there:
- List of Tips and Tricks — with an alphabetical list of podcast features with links to the podcast episode pages.
- List of Weekly Meds — with an alphabetical list of medications featured with links to podcast episode pages
I hope these additions and changes make the MedicCast website more user friendly and a better companion resource for the MedicCast Podcast.
Check back this weekend for Episode 28.
Jamie Davis
The Podmedic
August 9, 2006 @ 8:11 pm
With most of the U.S. still recovering from a week long heat wave at the end of July and beginning of August, a study of a 1995 Chicago heat wave has detemined some increased risk factors for mortality among the elderly. The study from the University of Chicago found that in areas without activities and businesses to draw the elderly out of their homes, the rate of heat related death was much higher. The deaths predictably occurred most often in lower income areas but income was not the only factor.
In some low income areas, there was not a significant economic decline and there were businesses and activities that fostered the sense of community that encouraged the elderly to venture forth during the day. Even in these areas, however, there was still a high mortality rate. Also, there is an indication that a similar result would happen in any disaster situation, hurricane, blizzard, extreme cold, any thing that could isolate communities and people.
As an EMS provider, keep track of your frequent flyers and maybe during these events, take a moment to call or check in so you don’t have to pronounce someone three days later!
I report on this and other EMS news in the most recent episode of the MedicCast News at the Podcaster News Network.
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The MedicCast is a finalist for the 2006 Podcast Awards. You can now vote once per day for the MedicCast at the Podcast Awards site.
Thanks!
Jamie Davis
the Podmedic
August 8, 2006 @ 9:39 pm
Heads up, gang!
According to this article referring to a study from the University of Buffalo, users of Methamphetamines (crystal, speed, or meth) have an increased ability to transmit the HIV virus because of the action of the drug on a particular protein binding site.
I know that we all take extra care with known drug users to avoid contact with body fluids but this points out a need to double check our precautions.
Remember, Scene Safety and . . . BSI !!!!
Jamie Davis
The Podmedic
