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Katrina: 10 years feels like the blink of an eye
Editor’s note I wrote today for EMS1. Hurricane Katrina made landfall ten years ago. This anniversary is an occasion to read remembrances, watch videos and look at photos from the days during and after...
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EMS World Expo 2015 by the Numbers
This was my 2nd (maybe 3rd) time attending EMS World Expo in Las Vegas. I was glad to be back after missing EMS World Expo 2014 in Nashville because of a blizzard kept me from leaving Wisconsin. Here...
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2 More Questions for the EMS Eagles
Friday and Saturday I attended the Gathering of the Eagles, state of the science education program in Dallas. Dozens of medical directors (EMS physicians) from throughout the United States gave five to...
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Sunday morning reader – coffee, ketamine, and EMS news
Working on a cup of Trauma Mama from the Java Medic and catching up with my favorite EMS blogs and news sites. Here are the articles I have worked through: Ebook Announcement: You Make the Call The...
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Cops Slap Here and Other Top News from April 1
RENO, Nev. — When Great Gulch Ambulance fleet manager unveiled a new sticker on the department’s 17 ambulances, he had no idea the level of impact they’d have on everything from interagency...
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Alleged Patient Kills Helper and Injures Two Others
Are you able to make sense of the tragic death of a Md. firefighter-paramedic who was killed after forcing entry to access a man believed to be unresponsive by his brother? I made an effort to make...
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De Pere Wisconsin Fire Station #1
Chief Dennis Rubin and his firefighter/paramedics at De Pere Wisconsin Fire Station #1 were kind enough to give my son and me a tour Friday afternoon. We had a nice visit and chance to discuss hockey,...
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Punish the Driver or Change the Culture
Last week EMS1 reported news of an ambulance being driven at 17 miles per hour above the speed limit. The borderline ridiculous incident had all the makings of a ‘gotcha’ story by the local television...
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Change EMS by getting involved
Changing EMS by ranting on Facebook, posting musings to a blog or thumbing up or down instagram photos is unlikely to sway the opinions of lawmakers, regulators or other decision makers. Instead join...
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Tim Tebow one throw closer to becoming a paramedic
Ex-NFL quarterback Tim Tebow led on-board prayer as flight attendants performed CPR on a patient in cardiac arrest. This puts Tebow one throw closer to realizing his destiny of becoming a paramedic....
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My Amazon Prime Day Shopping List
With guarded optimism and a predisposition for disappointment here are the items I will be looking for impossibly, amazing pricing on Amazon Prime Day 2016. Standing desk, preferably electrically...
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Orlando Active Shooter Will Cause EMS to Level Up for Active Shooter Response
Today’s mass shooting and terrorism incident in Orlando is an immediate and likely an ongoing incident for all EMTs and paramedics to learn from and contemplate. My rapid reaction … What happened: A...
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There is nothing more important than personal safety and partner safety
Safety. You come first. Your partner comes a very close second. Our concern for personal and partner safety, though, needs to extend from scene safety to off-duty safety from intimate partner violence...
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When protests and mass gatherings turn violent
After the Thursday shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers I had the chance to talk to Chris Cebollero about his experience as the Christian Hospital EMS Chief during the Ferguson protests and...
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Dear Future President: A Few Questions from EMS
Dear Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Nominations are finished and you are painting your differences, mostly in broad brushstrokes, on policy and regulatory issues to voters. Health care, one of the...
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EpiPens are expensive, now what?
EpiPens are expensive and the price has been steadily increasing for years. Since price escalation, without a clear reason, has been a fact of EMS purchasing for several years, it seems EMS leaders...
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5 Tips to Make EMS World Expo Great
EMS World Expo 2016 kicks off this morning in New Orleans with the World Trauma Symposium and half- and full-day pre-conferences. I am planning to split my day at the World Trauma Symposium and the PR...
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Waiting for Polls to Close: Doing Stuff to Pass the Time
While waiting for the polls to close, winners to be declared and to learn the winner of the elections. This post was my running list of things I did to pass the time. I had high hopes of staying up...
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Paramedics and President Trump
In paramedic school we learn a myriad of medical problems – from the unique to common. And new medics are prone to consider everything as equally possible instead of the most likely problem. So many...
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What a President Trump Means for Public Safety
The only headline more popular this week than “How the media/pollsters/pundits got the election so wrong” was “What a President Trump means for Industry/Group/Business.” I have collected up the What...
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