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But Why EMS Podcast

But Why EMS Podcast

Release Date: 10/29/2021

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For paramedics, click This episode is brought to you by .  General Devices is the one-stop app for healthcare professionals.  The Eolas platform is a mobile-first file-sharing and communications platform designed specifically for frontline clinical staff. It's built for clinicians, by clinicians and our mission is to connect healthcare professionals with the information they need at the bedside super-fast and super-easily Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here whether you like it or not.  On the one hand, AI evokes nefarious images of Skynet from the Terminator movies.  ...

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For paramedics, click for CAPCE credit! Brought to you by which is an intuitive one-touch solution that connects in-field clinicians and medical directors in real-time,   Hello But Why EMS podcast listeners!  Disaster medicine is a unique field of prehospital medicine.  Planning for a possible disaster is one thing, but preparation goes out the window when it happens in real life.  In this episode we interview Dr. Joshua Stilley FAEMS Chief of Division of EMS at the University of Missouri Medical Director of Chariton County EMS about lessons learned at a train...

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For paramedics, click HERE for CAPCE credit! Brought to you by which is an intuitive one-touch solution that connects in-field clinicians and medical directors in real-time,   Hello But Why EMS podcast listeners!  Have you ever seen the quarterback of a professional football game review videos of the last play in real-time?   The act of reviewing your actions with the intent of figuring out what you can improve upon is the key to improvement.  What if we can do that with our intubations?  In this episode, we talk with Dr. Brian Miller as he shares his...

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For paramedics, click for CAPCE credit! This episode is brought to you by .  General Devices is a health tech company specializing in communication solutions that help EMS and hospitals deliver simply seamless patient care. Don't you love having dropped calls when signing out a patient?  Isn't it fun repeating your sign-out over and over?  How about explaining your EKG findings over the phone? Welcome to communication in EMS :).  On top of everything else, communication between the prehospital and in-hospital world is complicated by technical glitches and multiple...

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But Why EMS Podcast

This episode is brought to you by .  General Devices is a health tech company specializing in communication solutions that help EMS and hospitals deliver simply seamless patient care. Don't you love having dropped calls when signing out a patient?  Isn't it fun repeating your sign-out over and over?  How about explaining your EKG findings over the phone? Welcome to communication in EMS :).  On top of everything else, communication between the prehospital and in-hospital world is complicated by technical glitches and multiple healthcare clinicians.   In this...

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For paramedics, click HERE for CAPCE credit! Brought to you by which is an intuitive one-touch solution that connects in-field clinicians and medical directors in real time, Happy EMS Week you prehospital studs!!! We’ve all heard of the law EMTALA or otherwise known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.  But how does this law affect what we do in the world of EMS?  We know it’s usually hospitals who are liable…not EMS systems...right!?!?!?  Maybe not!  Little do you know, that EMS systems can be liable.  Why do you ask?  Well in this episode...

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For paramedics, click for CAPCE credit! Brought to you by which is an intuitive one-touch solution that connects in-field clinicians and medical directors in real-time,   While we in EMS LOVE new shiny toys or flashy treatments that were only used in the hospital, some patient treatments require us to take a step back and see our patients as more than just that traumatic accident.  Enter Trauma Informed Care, which is a way to treat our patients not only with their immediate medical needs but a way to prevent the long-lasting effects of trauma.  This requires us to take a...

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For paramedics, click for CAPCE credit! Brought to you by which is an intuitive one-touch solution that connects in-field clinicians and medical directors in real time, Hello, But Why EMS Podcast listeners!  What do Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have in common?  They're both NOT servant leaders.  What are servant leaders you ask? And what does this have to do with EMS?  Well check out this episode of the But Why EMS podcast to hear Dr. Phil and Gina talk with MIH guests: Dr. Melissa Kroll Jennifer Rieker, Paramedic, Community Paramedic Jane Reilly BA, NRP, FP-C, CP...

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For paramedics, click for CAPCE credit! Brought to you by which is an intuitive one-touch solution that connects in-field clinicians and medical directors in real-time, Happy New Year But Why EMS Podcast listeners!  And with a new year comes the promise to become a better you personally and professionally.  So let’s start with changing our mindset when it comes to education.  In this episode, we have our But Why crew, Gina, Paul Schuler, and I talking with our special guest:   Elizabeth Kendrick NREMTP about how amazing paramedics can be as healthcare clinicians,...

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For paramedics, click for CAPCE credit! Brought to you by which is an intuitive one-touch solution that connects in-field clinicians and medical directors in real-time, In the current state of affairs and the decreasing number of OB/GYN specialists in our communities, EMS will endure long transports of high-risk OB to tertiary care facilities.  As a prehospital clinician, you will be the one caring for these sick OB patient(s).  Are you ready?  To help you prepare, the But Why EMS podcast team discusses high-risk OB pathologies with our content expert Dr. Karin Fox, OB/GYN,...

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this episode covers the complex nature of traumatic arrests. ,  Do we treat it the same as a medical arrest?  Do we have different treatment and decision priorities for these traumatic patients?  What makes caring for these patients in the prehospital environment so unique and how does that affect our care of these patients? 

We discuss these questions and more with our special guest:

Dr.  Rawan Safa

@rawansafa93

Emergency Medicine Resident at Washington University

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Thank you for listening!

Hawnwan Philip Moy MD 

Gina Pellerito EMT-P

John Reagan EMT-P

Noah Bernhardson MD

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