When your patient asks if he is having a heart attack, do you tell him, no matter how bad the 12 lead looks? Have you ever avoided these quesions, told white lies or just plain lied in what you thought was the best interest to the patient? What do you think? When does a patients stress level or anticipated reacition influence what or how you tell them?
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The pediatric patient. We’ve all heard the little quips before. They’re not little adults, they crash fast, don’t lie to them.
Honestly, I lie to them all the time. It’s the parents I tell the truth to. But still, dealing with pediatrics is more than just calming the crying infant or knowing that “Hey, this isn’t a little adult”. Age groups, diseases, injury types, parents, bystanders and even other providers all play a role in the call and the outcome.
Take a listen to this episode and give your pediatric call tips or tell us a story in the comments below.
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Life Under The Lights post mentioned during the show.
Dave Aber at The EMS Difference
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Each day we pretty much do our jobs with minimal interactions with other agencies like Fire or Police. Sometimes though we end up in situations where close coordination and clear communication is needed between agencies to get the job done and do it in a safe manner for both victims and providers.
Too often though these highly stressful and not so common situations can cause confusion, agency turf wars and dare I say, hurt feelings.
A recent issue in NYC got me to thinking that perhaps giving some opinion to this matter is well worth an Office Hours episode. Listen as Tim Noonan, Josh Knapp and myself talk about inter agency conflicts, paid vs. volunteer, Fire, Police and getting along in the sandbox. Share your story or thoughts on this topic below in the comments.
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This week Josh and I talk about dumb things done by EMS providers. Some in the name of practical jokes, some for intended training reasons and others just plain ole “dumb”. Listen to what we think is the right time, wrong way and what we should think about when we hear or see these stories. Be sure to post your favorite EMS dumbness below in the comments.
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Article about Paramedic using real blood. This is just one place this issue was mentioned.
This week I did not do a live podcast due to the Easter holiday. Rather than just let the week pass without a podcast posting I thought it would be a great time to give my Monday Minutes a little showing.
I posted the listing below and hope you will go check out the quick Monday Minutes I have done over the months and even comment or share your favorites.
These are nice short audio and video sessions to give you key points, great takeaways and hopefully motivators to get you reading and doing more for your patients, yourself and EMS.
Giving nitro, albuterol treatments, epi pens and now intranasal narcan. While giving or assisting patients with these medications can be beneficial, is proper training and oversight being provided along with these added responsibilities. How many EMT’s want these added responsibilities? Should EMT’s even have these responsibilities?
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Bob Sullivan – EMS Patient Perspective
Josh Knapp – WANTYNU
This week on the show we talk about an article on combing EMS, Fire and Police into one single all purpose Public Safety Office. We also hit on the Community Paramedic model and why we still see items like bite sticks and jaw screws being sold by leading EMS suppliers. Take a listen and leave your thoughts below.
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Josh from WANTYNU
Bob Sullivan from EMS Patient Perspective
Article links
Combining EMS, Fire and Police Idea
This weeks Office Hours was live as always and although we had some audio issues at times, I think we gave a little insight to why blogging is important to EMS and how it affects what we do and how we move toward change in EMS. I tried to clean the audio as much as possible, so bear with any low points if you can.
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EMS Blog of the Year – click here to vote
Christopher Watford from EMS12Lead.com
Steve Whitehead – The EMT Spot
A recent YouTube video showcases a recorded conversation between an employee and management. The root of the issue was reporting elder abuse by a healthcare worker. How do you handle these situations? Through management or state reporting systems. What do you expect or should you expect from filing the report? Listen in on this topic and a reminder on scene awareness.
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Josh Knapp – WANTYNU.com
Pink Warm & Dry – thanks for chatting.
This weeks live podcast “We Want Steak But Settle For Spam” tried to answer the question on why when it comes to EMS, it seems we pay more attention and put more energy into topics that really won’t help us as professionals? Like Spam that special meat that satisfies for the moment but not what we really want. It seems more commentary is given to whether we are called ambulance drivers or EMT’s rather than focusing on topics like intubation success, the drugs we use and treatments we give. Sure it’s out there. Just like that nice T Bone steak or fresh lobster. But we settle for the Spam, the stuff that just gets us by, not what really matters and not what we should want as a profession. I wonder what’s your opinion on why this is. What can we do to start targeting the real issues facing the EMS profession?
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Josh Knapp – WANTYNU.com
Tim Noonan - Roguemedic.com
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