Medic Materials Podcast

Multiple providers are dealt a black cloud of a hand. Significant trauma, multiple patients, rare medical complications and a race against time must all be faced head on by this EMT and their Paramedic.

Is there a patient or not? After the crew finds out they must make a series of important choices that may lead to success or could lead to complete and utter breakdown of the call.

Within the walls of a maximum-security prison, an EMS crew is faced with a serious set of circumstances. Decision-making is clouded by fear and stress. Can this ems crew face their fear before the walls close in on their patient?

ketamine is a drug many often times misunderstood and misused. The discussion had in this episode is your deep dive into the history of Ketamine, why we use it in EMS and how we could make administration even easier for Paramedics.

Every cardiac arrest call has challenges. In this call review, we focus on two medic providers that have a patient who continues to fight. Hasty choices are made throughout as stress builds. Can this cardiac arrest be turned around or will the situation get the better of the providers?

A cardiac arrest is literally one of the most stressful calls EMS providers go through. We discuss the history, future, drugs, tactics and all things cardiac arrest to better help you the next time an echo priority or a code 99 is dispatched.

A staff on high alert from an abusive asshole and an ems crew tossed into the middle. Will this crew escalate an already volatile explosive scene or will they lead everyone into the calm?

What will happen when you cross a douche canoe paramedic and a super sick pediatric patient?? Let's just say the electricity in this episode was high.

An extremely serious call with dire airway concerns is what we review today! This crew stumbles through a rushed airway procedure without evaluating the consequences of their decisions. We will see if they can produce a positive outcome in the end.

Listener inspired! We dedicate an entire show to a great discussion spurred on by one of our listeners emails. What exactly is an ALS flycar system? We answer that question and MUCH MORE about an EMS system we all in some capacity have our hands in.

Heads are scratched with the 12 Lead obtained on a patient that is surely having a STEMI, until they aren't...or are they? That is the dilemma this crew faces as they attempt to sort out signs and symptoms consistent with what they should be seeing on the cardiac monitor.

Today is the 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Medic Materials Podcast and we are going to celebrate but emptying our skeletons from the closet! We take a more relaxed look into our lives and answer a mix of questions from ems to our personal favorites.

Congrats! You have passed paramedic school. Your card is new and shiny but now you must face being a brand new practicing paramedic. This episode answers many questions a new provider might be thinking of right now. How do you enter your first job, how might you handle the pressure, what should your attitude be like and so much more!

Thinking about, or starting Paramedic School soon? Feeling nervous & apprehensive? Got questions? Kelsey is feeling all of that & poses many of her questions as well as listeners question on what to expect in paramedic school, tips for success & how to exit school & land your first Medic job. All this and more in this INFORMATION PACKED episode.

Psych calls are typically routine. However every once in a blue moon you come across a pysch patient that will change your life forever. The encounter this EMS crew has changes their lives from rosy to red in an instant.