MedicCast Audio Podcast for EMT Paramedics and EMS Students

What’s on the horizon with resuscitation research? Have you heard about “Heads-up CPR” and wondered what people were talking about? Well we’ve got the answers in another special crossover Disaster Podcast episode. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 447 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. This week we have another crossover episode from the Disaster Podcast with Dr. Joe Holley and Paramedic Jim Logan from Paragon Medical Education Group who share with my co-host Sam Bradley and I what they’ve been doing in their recent research into resuscitation efforts and research using a cadaver learning model. What is the team at Paragon doing to create a reliable cadaver model for investigating research into cardiac arrest? Find out here in this episode on the cutting edge of resuscitation research. Also, subscribe to the Disaster Podcast itself at DisasterPodcast.com or using the iOS podcast app or your favorite Android Podcast App. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —- Tip of the Week: Cutting Edge Resuscitation Research Our partners and sponsors here at the Disaster Podcast, Paragon Medical Education Group (@paragonmededuon Twitter), are involved in breaking the barriers of traditional medical education in all areas. We know from their previous episodes here on the Disaster Podcast that they specialize in Disaster education but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t involved with other areas of medical education and research. They have been doing some really incredible research into cardiac arrest resuscitation in association with Dr. Keith Lurie in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are working on research into “Heads-up CPR” and the use of impedance threshold devices that reduce intra-thoracic pressures during compressions like the ResQPod and the ResQPump from Advanced Circulatory. Check out this special segment on the groundbreaking,

Noisy stroke risks, overdose is new leading cause of death, new CPR video kiosk, and we’ll talk with EMS educator Bob Sullivan about his article series of EMS tips on “10 things you need to know in EMS.” If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 448 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items, we’ll talk about several interesting EMS articles including a look at a novel approach to teaching the public hands-only-CPR using a video kiosk at public events. Then in this week’s special tip interview segment, I have paramedic educator Bob Sullivan back on the show to chat about his excellent article series of EMS tips at EMS1.com. Bob writes about EMS topics and the 10 things EMS providers need to know for each topic. It includes education and some simple EMS tips you can take with you. We’ll have that and more later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News Community Noise Related to Stroke Risk Drug Overdose Takes Lead In Death Causes CPR Kiosk Could Be A Community Health Hit! LOOP HSI CPR Program —- Tip of the Week: Bob Sullivan on EMS Tips Article Series at EMS1.com This week on the show I chat with Bob Sullivan on his series of articles at EMS1.com on 10 things you need to know in EMS. He covers a variety of important topics that hold refresher education and simple EMS tips to improve your EMS care as an EMT or paramedic. Bob is an educator for paramedics in Delaware and is also an EMS blogger at EMSPatientPerspective.com. Check out what he has to say about EMS refresher knowledge and professionalism. Links:  

We’ve got a part two of a special two part overview of the 2014 Oso, Washington Mudslide Response borrowed from the files of the Disaster Podcast. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 447 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. This week we conclude our special two-part crossover episode from the Disaster Podcast with paramedic Shaughn Maxwell talking about his experiences helping to manage the response in Snohomish County, Washington during the 2014 Oso Mudslide. If you haven’t checked out the episode from last week with part one of this segment on the Oso, Washington Mudslide, you should do so. Also, subscribe to the Disaster Podcast itself at DisasterPodcast.com or using the iOS podcast app. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —- Tip of the Week: Oso, Washington Mudslide in 2014 Shaughn Maxwell is a nationally recognized firefighter/ paramedic/ educator with Snohomish County Fire District One in Washington State. On Saturday morning March 22, 2014, he started his day like many others. That all changed as the calls started coming in for a major mudslide that engulfed an entire neighborhood. Disaster Podcast hosts Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, and Sam Bradley were joined by frequent guest Dr. Joe Holley from Tennessee Task Force One USAR team as they interviewed Shaughn about his area’s response to the disaster that struck their community. Shaughn talks about the ways local, county, state and federal resources worked together to solve seemingly insurmountable challenges facing rescuers. —– Contact the MedicCast Get back to me. Let me know what you think about these news items by email at Podmedic@Mac.com or sending a message via Facebook(

We’ve got part one of a special two part episode with an overview of the 2014 Oso, Washington Mudslide Response borrowed from the files of the Disaster Podcast. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 446 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. This week I bring you a crossover episode from the Disaster Podcast which, incidentally, you should all check out at DisasterPodcast.com. This episode interviews paramedic Shaughn Maxwell about the Oso, Washington Mudslide of 2014. A section of a hillside detached following some prolonged rain and wiped out an entire residential community. This is part one of that two-part Disaster Podcast episode. Check it out coming right up. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —- Tip of the Week: Oso, Washington Mudslide in 2014 Shaughn Maxwell is a nationally recognized firefighter/paramedic/educator with Snohomish County Fire District One in Washington State. On Saturday morning March 22, 2014, he started his day like many others. That all changed as the calls started coming in for a major mudslide that engulfed an entire neighborhood. Disaster Podcast hosts Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, and Sam Bradley were joined by frequent guest Dr. Joe Holley from Tennessee Task Force One USAR team as they interviewed Shaughn about his area’s response to the disaster that struck their community. Shaughn talks about the ways local, county, state and federal resources worked together to solve seemingly insurmountable challenges facing rescuers. —– Contact the MedicCast Get back to me. Let me know what you think about these news items by email at Podmedic@Mac.com or sending a message via Facebook(Facebook.com/podmedic) or Twitter (

We need more CPR, treating that patient you know, meds and side effects for heat emergency, and we’ll take a look at another way you can conveniently get your recertification hours in the next time you recert with Live Online Medical Education. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 445 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we start out looking at what needs to be done to improve community bystander CPR rates where you live and work. Then in this week’s special tip segment I interview Scott McConnell from DistanceCME.com. Scott tells me about their live distance continuing medical education and online EMS recertification classes that meet all the didactic in-person class requirements and are fully accredited by CECBEMS and most state EMS systems. Plus I got them to give me a code to get all MedicCast audience members 10% off their registration fees. We’ll find out what that code is later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News Improving Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates Nationwide IOM Report on Cardiac Arrest Survival Improvement Dealing With EMS Patients You Know Some Meds Worsen Onset of Heat Emergencies —- Tip of the Week: Distance Live Online Medical Education We all know that the National Registry of EMTs and most state credentialing offices limit the amount of online and distance continuing education that counts towards our recertification. But there is still a distance learning solution out there that you might not know about that offers “LIVE” education sessions directly through your internet connected computer.

More heroin cases, EMS dental calls rising, Tattoo cover up rules examined, and we’ll look at what’s going on with community paramedic or mobile integrated healthcare programs in Travis County, Texas. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 444 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at what one group of public safety employees are doing about their system’s tattoo cover-up rules. Then in this week’s special tip segment from EMS Today 2015 in Baltimore, we chat with Dr. Paul Hinchey about what the team in Travis County, Texas is doing to push forward with their initiatives in mobile integrated healthcare, also called community paramedic programs. Are they doing something you could replicate in your system? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News Heroin Abuse Cases On the Rise ER and Emergency Dental Calls Increasing Are Tattoo Cover-up Rules Legal or Fair? —- Tip of the Week: Mobile Integrated Healthcare in Travis County, Texas EMS Garage host Chris Montera, the Geekymedic, chatted with Dr. Paul Hinchey, Andy Hoffmeister and Laura Slocum about Mobile Integrated Healthcare systems. They discuss how Austin/Travis County, Texas EMS worked to create a public health community paramedic program to identify and treat those patients whose needs were not being met by standard EMS. Thanks again to Physio-Control, EMS Today and JEMS for having our podcast studio in their exhibit hall at the EMS Today conference earlier this year. A special thanks again to EMS Today and especially to Physio-Control for sponsoring our podcast studio at the EMS Today conference this year.

Moving all fire departments to volunteers, improving your intubation success rates, risks for older asthma patients, and we’ll look at another EMS 10 Innovator Awardee with Chief Wayne Zygowicz and his initiative to improve awareness for our EMS brethren at risk for suicide. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 443 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items including a look at one city’s initiative to get more funding for EMS by switching it’s paid fire department to volunteer status. That’s riling up some fire departments out there but it makes some sense to me. Then in this week’s tip segment from EMS Today 2015, I have a segment from our EMS 10 Innovator awards with Chief Wayne Zygowicz from Littleton, Colorado. Wayne has researched and written extensively on the topic of EMS and Fire personnel suicides and how they can be prevented. Can you do more to recognize the warning signs in your colleagues? We’ll find out how you can do that later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News Switching Fire Departments to Volunteer, Paying EMS More Tips for Improving Your EMS Intubation Success Older Patients More At Risk From Asthma Meds —- Tip of the Week: EMS Suicide Awareness with Wayne Zygowicz This year Chief Wayne Zygowicz, from Littleton, Colorado was recognized with an EMS 10 Innovator Award. He got the award for his significant research, training and writing on EMS provider suicide in EMS and the fire service. We all need to expose and educate our fellow providers to the signs and symptoms of depression in patients and as well as our colleagues.

Controlling Medicare costs, getting EMS body cameras, hydrating our children, and we’ll visit with another EMS 10 innovation award winner who developed new and novel ways to get continuing education and training to her EMS crews. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by the Physio-Control Corporation and by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 442 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at EMS to weigh in on the debate about wearable body cameras. How soon will body cameras come to your EMS service? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Then in this week’s special interview segment I bring you an interview I did with EMS 10 Awardee Rachel Phillips from the London Ambulance Service. She is an educator and paramedic there who is responsible for getting continuing and ongoing education out to her paramedics. She came up with some novel ways to do that in her system and was recognized for it at EMS Today this year. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News Small Group of Patients Costs Healthcare the Most EMS and Body Cameras Getting Our Young Athletes Hydrated This Summer —- Tip of the Week: Improving and Innovating EMS Continuing Education At the EMS Today conference in Baltimore this past month, the best of the best in emergency medical services were recognized at the annual EMS 10 Awards ceremony. This year emergency medical services educator and paramedic Rachel Phillips from the London Ambulance Service won an award recognizing her for her empowering and motivating approach to clinical training, paramedic continuing education and provider updates that ensure high standards of excellence in patient care thro...

Bee sting death reminder for EMS, looking for sepsis patients, we’re all getting sicker, and we’ll look at how EMS can be on the look out for veterans in our communities with signs of PTSD and lingering effects of traumatic brain injury. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 440 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we take a look at several reminders for EMS providers to watch for specific types of patients in our communities. Then in our tip segment interview I bring you another segment from EMS Today with a look at how Phoenix Fire Department is being extra vigilant for EMS patients who are veterans. How can we be more aware of the unique issues with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and PTSD in these patients? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News   Bee Sting Death Reminds EMS to Be Prepared Managing EMS Sepsis Patients MedicCast Sepsis Episode part 1 MedicCast Sepsis Episode part 2 People Getting Sicker Worldwide —- Tip of the Week: EMS, Veterans, PTSD and TBI I got the chance to interview Dean Pedrotti, Fire Captain with the Phoenix Fire Department. Dean co-presented at EMS Today 2015 along with Thomas Winkel of the Arizona Coalition for Military Families, on the topic of returning veterans and PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

Stroke FAST response, hands-only CPR works wonders, angled, head-elevated CPR changes, and we’ll look at the recent updates nationwide with the mobile integrated healthcare or community paramedic movement with a special interview from EMS Today this year. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 440 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we will take a look at several items surrounding CPR both before EMS arrives on the scene and what we might be doing once we get to the side of a cardiac arrest victim. Then in this week’s tip segment we will have some great information about Labiaplasty and Vaginoplasty. I also have an interview conducted by EMS Garage host Chris Montera with Medstar Mobile Healthcare’s Matt Zavadsky and Dr. Dan Swayze from Pittsburgh who both update Chris about what their systems are doing to continue to move forward with mobile integrated healthcare programs. How are community paramedics impacting patient care around the country more and more? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News Researching EMS Fast Response to Stroke in UK Hands-Only CPR Is Effective at Saving Lives Conducting CPR at 30 Degree Angle May Improve Outcomes —- Tip of the Week: Mobile Integrated Healthcare Update At the EMS Today conference in Baltimore this past month, some truly amazing speakers addressed the crowds of EMS providers there. Chris Montera,

FDNY DNR Conundrum, stopping youth gun violence, Milwaukee ambulance reports shots fired and we’ll have a special segment on new synthetic drugs of abuse with Lisa Booze from the Maryland Poison Center. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 439 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we look at a recent moral/ethical dilemma that faced two New York Fire Department paramedics at a recent cardiac arrest call. Then in this week’s special tip segment, I have an interview with Lisa Booze from the Maryland Poison Center on new synthetic drugs of abuse being seen in communities around the country. See if you know enough about Flacca, Gravel or N-Bomb. We’ll test that knowledge later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News FDNY Paramedics Face DNR Conundrum and Backlash ERs Stopping Cycle of Youth Gun Violence Milwaukee Ambulance Struck by Gunfire —- Tip of the Week: Flakka, Gravel and N-Bomb By now, I’m sure that most, if not all, of your listeners have heard of synthetic drugs like synthetic marijuana and bath salts. But have you heard of N-Bomb? Gravel? Flakka? These are just a few of the many new drugs of abuse that are causing serious effects right now. Synthetic drugs are made to mimic other drugs of abuse such as cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy, LSD and even heroin. By tweaking the chemical structures and disguising the packaging, makers of these drugs try to avoid existing laws and in many cases, they are successful in doing that. The packages do not say what drugs are in there and there could be...

EMS Compass program kicks off, helicopter transport lawsuits, new Washington State community paramedic programs, and we’ll look at the advantages of longer EMS cardiac arrest resuscitation efforts. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 438 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll start off looking at a new federal initiative from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) through a cooperative agreement with the National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO)to come up with national EMS standards for systems. Then in this week’s special tip segment from the Physio-Control podcast studio at EMS Today earlier this year we have Dr. Brent Myers talking about Wake County, North Carolina’s extended resuscitation efforts and the results they have with patient survival. Can your system replicate their results? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. —————————- EMS News EMS Compass Initiative Develops National Standards More EMS Helicopter Transport Lawsuits Washington State Community Paramedic Initiatives —- Tip of the Week: Using Prolonged Resuscitation Attempts in EMS Dr. Myers talked at the EMS Today conference about his system’s policy of extending cardiac arrest resuscitation efforts beyond the industry standard of twenty minutes. With high quality CPR, therapeutic hypothermia and other interventions, patients recovering from extended resuscitation attempts are having amazing outcomes and deserve our full attention to their care during resuscitation. Check out this segment from EMS Today and thanks again to Physio-Control, EMS Today and JEMS for having our podcast studio in their exhibit hall. Thanks again to Physio-Control,

Twitter predicts ER crowds, checking out the EMS service of the year, choosing your ambulance service level, and we’ll visit with Dr. Ryan Gerecht about the prehospital use of TXA in trauma patients. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 437 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll take a look at several news items as usual including a novel piece of research that looks at how Twitter and other social media data could be used to predict emergency room peak patient flow. Then in the special interview segment this week from EMS Today back in February, Chris Montera from the EMS Garage sat down with Dr. Ryan Gerecht to talk about the use of TXA in prehospital trauma patients. Will this be coming to a drug bag in your service? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Using Social Media to Predict ER Overcrowding EMS Service of the Year Glacier County EMS Deciding on Higher Taxes or Less Ambulance Services —- Tip of the Week: Using TXA in the Prehospital Setting At the EMS Today conference in Baltimore back in February, some truly amazing speakers addressed the crowds of EMS providers there. Chris Montera,

Hospital stroke fails, women’s concussion recovery, UK paramedics stressed out, and we’ll look at another segment from EMS Today 2015 with a look at traumatic brain injury management in EMS. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 436 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll take a look at a few EMS news items including one on research on the longer term effects of concussion on women. Then in this week’s special tip segment we have another interview from EMS Today back in February where the team interviewed Dr. Jason McMullen on EMS management of traumatic brain injury. Are you doing the right things to take care of these patients? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News In-hospital Stroke Management Failures Concussions Affect Women Longer Stress Taking Toll on NHS Paramedics in UK —- Tip of the Week: Traumatic Brain Injury Management in EMS At the EMS Today conference in Baltimore back in February,

Social media for EMS, hidden paramedic cost, getting your EMS cache and we’ll take a look at what we can do for the treatment of penetrating and crush injuries in the field. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 435 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’re going to look at several news items that discuss the hidden challenges and costs of being an EMS provider. Then in this week’s special tip segment we have another interview from the Physio-Control podcast studio at EMS Today back in February. Dr. Ed Dickson, JEMS medical director, sat down with me to talk about penetrating and crush injury management in EMS. Do you know what to do and best practices to handle these types of injuries? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Social Media for Emergency Medicine The Price of Being a Paramedic Earning Your Paramedic Cachet —- Tip of the Week: Penetrating Trauma and Crush Injuries At EMS Today back in February I got the chance to interview Dr. Ed Dickson, JEMS Medical Director. Dr. Dickson talked with me about penetrating and crush injuries and how EMS providers should prepare to manage theses specific types of trauma patients.