Rocky Mountain Trauma and Emergency Medicine Conference
Earlier this month Ross and Will visited the Rocky Mountain Trauma and Emergency Medicine Conference. In addition to trauma games and sim wars, there were so many great lectures and EMS Cast was lucky enough to get to interview some of the speakers about their talks. We are excited to get to bring some of […]
Trauma Triage Guidelines Update
What is the ACS? It is important to listen to experts in the field, and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a great example of a group of experts that can provide valuable insight. The ACS is a national group of physicians that come together to determine best practices and guidelines for surgery, especially […]
The Truth About Nitro: Separating Fact from Fiction
EKGs from the case Nitroglycerin for acute coronary syndrome. Nitroglycerin is a medication commonly used to treat acute coronary syndrome, a condition in which the coronary arteries become narrow or blocked, leading to chest pain and other symptoms. Nitroglycerin works by dilating the blood vessels and increasing blood flow to the heart (or so we […]
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 the class. You can look the names up and quickly learn which class it belongs to. Once you […]
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 to be talking about one of my favorite topics. It’s called, Ross was right and Matt was wrong. […]
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 Surgeons, Emergency Physicians, and Paramedics to help clearly delineate our priorities in 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 understand the physiology. But if you do understand what is going on, you can make a real difference and save a life.
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 on the streets. Welcome back Dr. Nik Matsler who’s going to take us through how novel drugs escape our legal system and what the dangers are. And a new update on good ol’ meth too!
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 standard for EMS ePCR’s. National EMS data and information about the NEMSIS program is available at https://nemsis.org, including […]
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 for a long time and is very much its own disease process. We discuss how to define it, […]
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 can fall back on that with a calm confidence. It’s like we’ve always heard: we don’t rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of training. With trach’s, we unfortunately have to train ourselves.