Posts Tagged ‘MVC’
Trauma Criteria: preventative medicine? Episode 37
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:42 — 45.0MB) Over-triage to trauma centers? Poor EMT skills? Paramedics in the way? Care inhibited by the QA/QI process? Anatomicological?! These are some of the topics discussed on this episode of the First Few [Read More]
A Change of the Dogma: If it helps only one? Episode 36
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:50 — 48.5MB) **This podcast is not meant to change YOUR current practice, only your medical director can do that! …but nothing says you can’t try to convince them – KDB** “Whoa! Look at [Read More]
Will Twitter Replace the Siren? Episode 31
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:15:15 — 53.4MB) In this episode we discuss one municipality’s attempt to decrease intersection collisions by using various technologies. We also discuss, again, driving as there has been continued news feeds of [Read More]
Slide, Don’t Lift: Episode 30
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:30 — 48.6MB) Bending, lifting, twisting and essentially turning yourself into a pretzel in a car is how we often work at the scene of an MVC. However are we destined to “just deal with it” or are there [Read More]
Check Your Pee! Episode 29
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:06 — 29.6MB) Oftentimes we talk about provider rehabilitation only during times of extended operations such as with structure fires. However with the arrival of summer, working on the hot blacktop at the scene of [Read More]
Who is TIMA? Episode 28
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:25 — 45.9MB) Roadway safety isn’t a new topic for emergency responders. People dying, being injured, or damage to vehicles is not new either. So how come we are kicking and screaming when it comes to making [Read More]
RettMobil Day 1 Episode 24
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:47 — 16.2MB) Fulda, located towards the middle of Germany, is an old, small town where for the 11th year responders involved in mobile medical care converge. This year there is an expected attendance of over 30,000 [Read More]
“Ya got what ya got!” Rural Disaster Management Ep 23
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:00 — 47.3MB) Once again we are at the 17th Annual Interior Region EMS Council Symposium in Fairbanks, Alaska where we talk with Yvonne Howard from Eagle EMS about 2 major disasters in her area. Imagine being one [Read More]
What do you mean ‘Load & Go’? Go Where? Episode 22
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:51 — 29.2MB) Join us again in Alaska as Steve Murphy and Kyle David Bates talk with Rusty Lasell from Tri-Valley Fire Department in Healy, AK about wildland fires, earthquakes, and response to other such disasters [Read More]
Rural Alaska Healthcare Episode 21
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:34 — 45.4MB) If you think that driving an hour with a patient means that you are working within a rural community you have yet to visit Alaska. This week we are at the 17th Annual Interior Region EMS Council [Read More]
Why We Do What We Do: a view from the ROUGE Medic Episode 20
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:33 — 42.5MB) Ok, so this is a little late getting out but it is quite worth it! This week’s episode was recorded LIVE at EMS Today 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. Scott Keir, Dr. Jeff Myers, Tim Noonan, and [Read More]
My Wife is the IC! “The Incident Coordination System” Episode 19
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:56 — 57.5MB) This week we address the Incident Command…no Management…no Comm….oh I don’t know, that system we establish when at the scene of a disaster. Should we go away from the terms [Read More]
Some things to think about… Episode 18
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:16:23 — 55.5MB) This week as we discuss how an Oregon hospital refused to care for a patient in cardiac arrest in their very own parking lot and how the first responders dealt with it. We also discuss a recent fatal [Read More]
To Cut or Not to Cut? Episode 17
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:34 — 47.0MB) It sometimes seems that we become preoccupied with our tools when trying to get someone out of a vehicle. “Cut here…no here…get the spreader…let’s try…” are [Read More]
Candy Cane BLEVE w/ Gingerbreadization – Episode 15
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:26 — 44.7MB) How would you deal with an MVC of a high-profile bowl-full-of-jelly bariatric patient involving multiple small patients as well as nine caribou-type animals? Using some tongue-in-cheek we look at the [Read More]
Let’s Get A Head! Episode 14
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:16 — 51.4MB) Head injuries are common injuries that we encounter at the scene of an MVC. Rapid assessment and proper management may make a difference in the injured’s prognosis. Join Scott Kier, Mat Fults, [Read More]
Keep Your Toque On! Episode 13
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:52 — 44.8MB) …and give one to your patient while you’re at it! With the colder weather moving in we address the environmental factors that we, and our patients, will face at the scene of an MVC. In [Read More]
Is Assessment Dead? LIVE! at EMS Expo Episode 10
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:39 — 25.5MB) Watch the video of our podcast from Dallas. Thanks to Jamie Davis, the podmedic, over at the ProMed Network The question that we pose this week is, “Is patient assessment dead?” Have we [Read More]
Mechanism of Injury or Idiocy? Episode 9
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:02 — 27.9MB) There seems to be a trend to transport patients to the trauma center, possibly by air, based solely upon the mechanism of injury. The question that we address is do we put too much into the MOI? [Read More]
Expect the Unexpected! Episode 8
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:49 — 30.6MB) The response to an explosion can be difficult, but have it at an airport and across the street from your EOC can really make things interesting. We use this case to delve into scene management and [Read More]
Hey Kid! Episode 6
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:09:52 — 32.0MB) Hearing that your call involves an injured pediatric patient, yet alone multiple pediatric patients, is enough to get even the most experienced provide a little nervous. Why is this? Is it that they [Read More]
What if it Were One of Our Own? Episode 5
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:13:40 — 33.7MB) This week we discuss responding to an MVC that involves one of our own. There have been numerous crashes of ambulances and fire apparatus that have lead to injuries as well as fatalities.When it comes [Read More]
