In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I answer a reader’s question on how to get awake and dressed in 90 seconds or less when you work a 24-hour shift. Got any strategies of your own to share? Check out the podcast, and share ’em in the comments!
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Inside EMS Podcast: What Role Do Hospitals Play in Ambulance Response Times?
Co-host Chris Cebollero and I address that question, among others, in this week’s episode of Inside EMS podcast. Give us a listen, share your opinions.
Read More »New EMS Blogger In Town!
EMS1 columnist and volunteer EMS guru Nancy Magee is going to be posting content on the MEDIC Training Solutions blog. Because despite the care and compassion my partner and I provided, I knew that little girl would never forget the words of a paramedic who in that moment failed his patient, his profession, and any litmus test that might determine ...
Read More »Inside EMS Podcast: Ketamine Edition
In this episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I welcome Scot Phelps to the Guest Table to discuss EMS use of ketamine. Give us a listen, and share your thoughts!
Read More »For You EMS Types…
Jason Kodat, Gene Gandy and I have a new article in EMS World Magazine. Taking the Fear Out of Surgical Cricothyrotomy Give it a read, let us know what you think, and share with your friends.
Read More »Inside EMS Podcast: 2016 Year In Review
Plus, a look at what’s coming up for 2017, from EMS1 Editor-In-Chief, Greg Friese. Give us a listen, and don’t forget to rate us on iTunes.
Read More »Happy Blogiversary to Me!
My first blog post was ten years ago today, after being inspired by my blogfather.
Read More »Inside EMS Podcast: Changes to NREMT Standards
In this week’s episode of Inside EMS , co-host Chris Cebollero and I welcome EMS educator extraordinaire Dan Limmer to the show, to discuss changes in NREMT psychomotor and cognitive testing standards, among them updates to spinal motion restriction guidelines. Dan also offers listeners a discount code for his excellent Limmer Creative apps. Give us a listen to find out ...
Read More »The Re-Release of “En Route” Is Now Available!
And just in time for Christmas! For you loyal readers of my blog, column and first book, I am proud to announce that the re-release of my book, En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between, is now available through Amazon and major online and brick-and-mortar booksellers, both in paperback and Kindle formats! This “Author’s Special ...
Read More »For You EMS Types…
… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There. Read, enjoy, share.
Read More »Inside EMS Podcast: Pain Management Edition
In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I discuss the current U.S. opioid epidemic, and whether aggressive EMS and ED treatment of pain is a contributing factor. Give us a listen, and share your thoughts.
Read More »Giving Thanks
I am not perfect. The life I have crafted for myself is not perfect, but there are beautiful things and people in it. I am thankful for the friends and events that have lit my path in life, and also for the trials and mistakes that shaped the man I was to become. There have been dark times aplenty, but ...
Read More »Where’s Ambulance Driver? Fall 2016 Edition
The MEDIC Training Solutions 2016 World Tour winds down next week, with two final appearances in Atlantic City at the New Jersey Statewide Conference on EMS, and Dallas at the Texas EMS Conference. The nice folks in Montana, Oklahoma, Virginia, South Dakota, and Colorado were nice enough to book us this past month, and Nancy Magee and I enjoyed seeing ...
Read More »Inside EMS Podcast: The Professionalism Edition
In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I debate professionalism in EMS. Is it more than your dress and demeanor? How do you cultivate your “brand” as an EMS professional? Give us a listen, and let us know what you think.
Read More »For You EMS Types…
… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Read. Enjoy. Share.
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