@emsavenger.bsky.social
Creator on TikTok of content related to EMS, Emergency Medicine, evidence-based medical be and best practices, and mental health. Conference speaker.
EMS, meet community health services. Your future self.
25.04.2025 14:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it an admirable goal to get everyone in your state nationally registered? Absolutely! We need to get unified as a profession. Has North Carolina introduced a good bill to make it happen? Only if you like paying twice to be able to work as an EMS provider there.
17.04.2025 17:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Deep-Ish dive into the Delta wave associated with WPW, and why that's not relevant to your re-entry rhythms associated with WPW.
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Not me sitting here as a Paramedic under the DOT while our entire health care and research system is being converted to a peddler wagon selling tarot card readings under HHS.
16.04.2025 14:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you're an EMS service without a sepsis protocol...you're not an EMS service. How could you not have a protocol for something that affects 1.7 million people in the US every year and strikes down 350,000 of them. What the French, toast?!
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In almost all cases where students say they couldn't find or didn't have the time to study, the time is there. It just wasn't taken advantage of.
06.04.2025 21:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In remembrance of those who didn't receive lifesaving interventions from being too close to the hospital...
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Blow-by is NOT an appropriate intervention for pediatrics and you should NOT be cutting the prongs off of a NC.
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As our care in traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest gets more sophisticated, we're requiring more guidance on our approach to working it. Joint paper by NAEMSP/ACS-COT/ACEP.
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If you're a bystander & someone collapses, is not conscious & not breathing normally- go straight to compressions. No pulse checks. If you're a responder, still have a high suspicion for cardiac arrest & don't delay CPR for PROLONGED pulse checks.
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This is one of my most favorite videos that I've put together just because of how fun it was. Let's look back at a case study where triple-sequential defibrillation was performed.
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A patient suffering from anaphylaxis/asthma exacerbation can't afford anything less than aggressive treatment possible once their airway is compromised. #AMAX4 was designed to lay a track for that treatment.
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There is a difference between the hypoxic drive and the hypoxic drive theory. Your hypoxic drive is simply another smaller stimuli to breathe that does not become a primary stimuli.
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Review of how Lidocaine works when administered for VT/VF.
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05.03.2025 23:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There isn't just one way to recognize an OMI in the presence of a LBBB on a 12-lead, and Sgarbossa doesn't catch all OMIs. Let's take a look at Barcelona criteria.
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Don't be the person who attempted pacing, reported capture, reported improved pulses, but had no evidence of capture on the ECG or change in BP.
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It's important to note that this was a secondary analysis of data and not a study powered to guide practice, but the paper found a significant association between an ALS response and lower mortality.
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Etiologies of in-hospital cardiac arrest are much more wife and varied than out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Links in my bio.
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We talk a lot about skill creep in EMS. I don't see a problem with skill creep... BUT...I do want to acknowledge everyone who wants to be compensated more for this. Absolutely valid!
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Some institutions don't see the upside in ditching the long spine boards and rigid cervical collars. They only see the sea lions in the water.
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I'm astounded to see a mindset like this with all we know about PTSD and mental injury today.
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If you don't willingly embrace the possibility of failure, you may never experience success. I'm going to push you to fail safely.
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This waveform...is a lie! MelodyRT from IG teams up with me to break down why you shouldn't see this waveform outside of an operating room.
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Are you working to resuscitate or working to terminate?
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