June 2016
Anaphylactic reaction from eating meat? What the what?!
A discussion of how anaphylactic reactions can be caused by meat comsumption if you've recently been bitten by a tick. Just another reason to hate ticks.
Just the basics
A veteran EMS provider discusses the tendency of those in the EMS profession to denigrate their own importance with the phrase, "I'm just a basic."
April 2016
Percutaneous Translaryngeal Ventilation
There’s a little MacGyver in every good paramedic and may[...]
January 2016
Support for EMS POCUS
POCUS technology has become more affordable and more widely available. The clinicians in these areas of practice are thus ready to have this tool at their disposal. The biggest question from active prehospital providers is, 'why?'
TOP 10 list for Students about to precept
We run through the top ten items EMS students need to know when going to work with an EMS preceptor. Hope they prove helpful!
October 2015
Top 10 lies told by paramedics
For this edition of Thursday isms Scott McConnell, RN, BSN, CEN, NRP, EMS-I, shares some quick bits of EMS humor taken from around the interet.