Serotonin Toxicity
Serotonin Toxicity Serotonin Toxicity is a spectrum. Early recognition and treatment is key to preventing bad outcomes. Typically seen in patients who have overdosed on party drugs like MDMA, ecstasy, Molly etc. Also seen in patients
Diabetic medications- Do you know all the new diabetic medications?
Diabetic Medications There are a myriad of diabetic drugs out there, all with strange and difficult to pronounce names. So how do we keep this straight? It’s not important that you know the specific names. Rather recognize
Mac 3 vs Mac 4 – Is there one blade to rule them all?
Episode Transcript: Ross: Welcome to EMS Cast, where we provide high level education for you, the providers on the streets. I’m your host Ross Orpet Matt: and I’m Matt Mendes. Ross: And today we’re going
The Ideal Trauma Call
Are you running your traumas as efficiently as you should? Dave Edwards shares with us the ideal approach/philosophy/teaching tool to how theses calls should ideally go. This document is years in the making with input from Trauma
The Sick Asthmatic
The sick asthmatic is one of the scariest calls you may run. You need to understand this is different from other respiratory distress. Your treatments can have a profoundly negative impact on the patient if you don’t
Novel Drugs of Abuse
It seems like there are new drugs hitting the streets every month. That's because there are and there's a reason for that! Come learn why and what we need to look out for and be aware of
Your Run Report Matters More Than You Think
Ben Fisher, paramedic and NEMSIS guru, joins us to talk about what NEMSIS is and it’s importance to the career field. The National EMS Information System is the nation’s EMS data repository. NEMSIS is also the data
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Dr. Wright joins us to discuss acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). There has been a lot said about ARDS recently given some of it’s similarities to the COVID-19 disease process. That being said ARDS has been around
Making the Call
Tips on calling medical control. Assistant Medical Director Whitney Barrett discusses the dos and don'ts of calling in for medical control.
Approach to the Tracheostomy
This is still included in the A of ABCs but I got essentially no training on this in paramedic school. Airway problems are terrifyring without an approach to solve them. But when you have an approach you
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