Two South Carolina teen EMTs have a lot to be happy about. They won a national EMT competition. The competition, hosted by the Health Occupations Students of America National Leadership Conference, included a written test followed by a scenario involving the treatment of two patients. The two new EMTs competed against 50 other teams [...]

Two articles caught my eye this week having to do with catching up with the rising costs of running an ambulance service — either public service or private, commercial service. The first article has to do with one region turning to more strict collections policies regarding unpaid ambulance billing. I know that many areas are [...]

EMS providers are innovators. We have to be. It’s one thing to learn how to perform a procedure in a well lit classroom. It’s another thing altogether to do the same simple task upside down in a ditch in the dark while the patient is screaming in pain. So what do we do? [...]

Three helicopter crashes in Arizona in just a few days this past week give me cause for concern about the procedures and safety measures in the medical aviation transport sector of our field. The most recent and surely most devastating crash involved two helicopters which collided with patients on board killing six and severely injuring [...]

Silent Killer Stalks Programmers and Travelers (get back to this page by typing MedicCast.com/dvt into your browser) Podcasters and online radio producers are joining in the fight to stop a silent killer stalking computer programmers, international travelers, and anyone who spends long periods of time immobile. A public service announcement about the dangers of DVT (deep [...]

Welcome to Episode 124 The MedicCast is a proud member of the Blubrry 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. Fill out the New Survey! —————————- Sponsored by the MedicCast Extra – Extra Content for MedicCast Listeners for less than [...]

A reminder for all of the MedicCast Listeners. I’ll be attending and speaking at the podcast expo coming up here in August 2008. If you are in the Las Vegas area or will be there August 14 through 16, 2008, you can come and meet your favorite podcasters, check out all of the great information [...]

An Australian MP is calling for a parliamentary inquiry into what seems to be an unusually high suicide rate among ambulance (EMS) providers there. This article comes in by way of our good friend Tim. Following the apparent murder-suicide of a paramedic and his mother, some are calling for a hard look into why there [...]

The MedicCast is always looking for ways to partner with other high quality EMS sites out there.  That’s why I was very happy to hook up with Jim Hoffman over at EMS-Safety.com to help out with his NREMT Skills Video project. Called the NREMT Audio Video Showcase, the program features a step by step video on [...]

Welcome to Episode 123 The MedicCast is a proud member of the Blubrry 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. Fill out the New Survey! —————————- Sponsored by the MedicCast Extra – Extra Content for MedicCast Listeners for less than [...]