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EMS Situational Awareness and Situation Reality

April 24, 2013 by Jim Hoffman Leave a Comment
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EMS With recent events in Boston and Texas, the idea of situational awareness for EMS providers is one where we should evaluate and re-evaluate our roles. But while you often hear about situational awareness and may even be keenly aware of it during these calls, the actual situation itself can often have us abandoning training, in favor of saving lives.

Join Josh from WANTYNU and Jim as they discuss this topic and are joined by John Broyles and Tena C. in the chat room

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Arming EMS | Defensive or Simply Offensive?

February 15, 2012 by Jim Hoffman 4 Comments
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This week I had a selection of topics lined up for the show but the first one on whether or not to allow EMS providers to carry weapons like firearms, knives, batons etc. took  over and the listeners seemed pretty passionate about it. Take a listen and be sure to leave your story or comment below.

I also posted links to the other topics we didn’t get to below. Hopefully we will cover them in upcoming episodes.

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Josh Knapp Facebook page
Tim Noonan – Rogue Medic – Why Are We So Afraid Of Our Patients?

DT4EMS.com

EMS Museum post at Rescuing Providence

Copy & Paste post on Federal EMS agency at EMS Patient Perspective

Other links

“Small Talk” in EMS article from Thom Dick

Case Study on Frequent Flyers over at EMS1.com

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