Big day! First unit of whole blood delivered for Parker County Hospital District EMS! Switching from component to whole blood. Thank you American Red Cross for your partnership! They will be carrying units on each of their supervisor response units! BEST EMS

Faceless

Remember the olds days of #FOAMed ? I miss those days. Yes foam was not without its shortcomings and critics but it was an exciting time! EMcrit was new, SMACC was getting started, Minh le cong was talking about retrieval medicine and John Hinds was still around.

Do fewer things.
Do them better.
You will be happier.

Using dial-a-flow style IV tubing in the prehospital environment?
The rates are based on a predetermined height.

The ambulance ceiling IV hooks may over deliver by 60%

The IV pole on the gurney may under deliver by up to 60%

Michael Spigner
#NAEMSP2024

Never trust blood pressure cuff measurements in critically ill patients. Arterial line pressure on upper right, cuff pressure on lower left. jacc.org/doi/full/10.10…

Axon Awards please watch the video and vote for these amazing medics and fellow co-workers of mine! Great job on a cardiac arrest save!! awards-axon.us.launchpad6.com/rise-award-202…

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My thoughts from an EM/EMS/Crit Care standpoint…this video primarily aims at advocating and empowering Crit care transport crews to do the procedures to help if my EM colleagues can’t get it done to workload/other constraints.

Anyone know of any hospitals that allow medic to perform their full scope? Ie: giving IV meds, performing ECG’s etc… Jace Mullen Tom Bouthillet 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪

Can any fellow educators shed light on why a paramedic program would not tell a student what they failed on a “national registry” style skills testing? Seems like a student should know to be able to improve.

My latest article in EMS 1 magazine!

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What happened to the days of conferences posting great hashtags of knowledge from lectures? AMTC23 hashtags are almost non existent.

Any docs know what this may be? 3 day rash only 1 leg. Spreading white spots that ooze in 15 year old. And knee pain. Sean M. Fox Peter Antevy Emily Rose, MD

New article on Medium! Please feel free to like and follow!

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Cardiology often confuses new medic students. Some may think it’s scary, mysterious or even a little strange! 🤔 coming soon! 👇🏼

ELON

Article I published on Medium. Please feel free to check it out. medium.com/@medicrbrown/t…

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I was very honored to be invited to speak on the Parker county EMS podcast about one of my favorite topics in emergency medicine. Syncope!! Check it out! #syncope #EmergencyMedicine #EMS

Anyone know of any evidence that points towards the application of c collar after intubation actually improves securing of device? I’m thinking dogma. Hans Huitink AirwayMan Chris Root James DuCanto, M.D. Peter Antevy Vahé Ender🇨🇭