Here’s a great video look at the Podcast and New Media Expo that was held last year in Ontario, California. I was there and can’t wait until this years expo in Las Vegas. I have been invited to speak at this year’s expo and I’m really excited to talk about how podcasting can [...]
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A rather shocking story caught my eye this week. It has to do with a Florida EMT/Firefighter who is suing an elderly patient for injuries suffered while arriving at the patient’s residence for a call for aid. The responder is saying that 18,000 dollars worth of injury was caused by the [...]
This weekend I added 6 new short tip segments to the MedicCast Extra. In addition to the two items from this week’s free show (Acute Coronary Syndrome and Calcium Channel Blockers), I added 4 other segments taken from the “Stump the Podmedic” special episode from the MedicCast Live of a few weeks ago.
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In many parts of the world, access to the newer medical imaging machines or techniques is nonexistent. Xray, CT Scans, PET scans, MRI’s are all just science fiction to medical personnel in other parts of the world. The reason, of course, is the cost of these large pieces of equipment.
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For a lot of EMS providers out there, at least at the ALS level, Physio Control is the manufacturer of the monitors they use to read patient heart rhythms. Recently, however, they have been unable to support their customer base because of a voluntary stop order they issued over a year ago in accordance with [...]
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This week on the MedicCast News I look into a story about some really extraordinary CPR performed by students from a Wyoming EMS program. They kept up perfusing CPR compressions for 55 minutes and the docs at their destination hospital counted their efforts in the saving of the patient! Good job [...]
As we near the end of the semester and NREMT paramedic classes begin to practice for their NREMT exams, I thought it would be time to review some of the skills that are needed for both the BLS and ALS versions of the test. I’ve been covering IO drills lately since our friend, Eric [...]
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For those of you who have not seen the EZ-IO drill at work. Eric Augustus pointed me to this video of the process. Check it out:
