The Louisville Prehospital Care Podcast

Join Dr. Evan Kuhl, Medical Director for Okolona Fire and Rescue and Ameripro, and Dr. Kuzel to discuss the implications of artificial intelligence and its uses in EMS.  Citations: "Artificial intelligence in Emergency Medical Services dispatching: assessing the potential impact of an automatic speech recognition software on stroke detection taking the Capital Region of Denmark as case in poi...

We're back from a bit of a hiatus! Today Dr. Kuzel will discuss Left Ventricular Assist Devices and the prehospital management of these devices. Disclaimer: Dr. Kuzel is not a Cardiologist or CT Surgeon, this is an Emergency Physician's Approach. 

In this episode, PGY-2 Emergency Pharmacist Carly Loudermilk and I discuss psychiatric medications and what to look for. 

Happy to host Nick Cottrell for a discussion on toxicologic emergencies

On behalf of the Louisville Prehospital Care Podcast Team, we extend our deepest condolences to Paramedic Don Scheer's family, friends, and the entire prehospital team here in Jefferson County and surrounding counties. 

5 million patients each year are placed into C-Collars in the United States, but only 12,000 patients annually develop spinal injury. Let's review the literature on C-Collars and see if they truly are "relatively harmless" and make a strong case on de-emphasis of c-collars in awake and asymptomatic patients. Disclaimer: Follow your protocols! If you suspect a neurological injury in...

Review Tension Pneumothorax vs Pneumothorax and indication for Needle Decompression. DON'T PUT IT IN THE BELLY!!

Join me and Kaitlyn Krish from Jeffersontown Fire and EMS as we discuss EMS call-ins and how to structure a call-in to the emergency department As a reminder, the discussion here does not in anyway reflect the views or positions of University of Louisville Hospital or Jeffersontown Fire and EMS. 

Katelyn Krish joins me again as we discuss call-ins for online medical control and ceasing resuscitative efforts. 

In this episode, I am joined once again by Nick Cottrell to discuss Norepinephrine. Norepinephrine is a common vasopressor used in distributive and hypovolemic shock. We'll discuss indications, contraindications, and adverse effects as well as current uses in prehospital medicine. 

Join Nick Cottrell and I for Part II of Ketamine

In this episode, we will review START and JumpSTART Triage as well as tackling mass casualty incidents from an EMS perspective. 

Join Nick Cottrell and I in discussing the troubling case in Aurora Colorado and talk about some of the dangers of ketamine.  Details of this case are obtained from open source media and news articles. 

One of the most frustrating calls in EMS is to be dispatched on a run for "abnormal labs" at a nursing home, transferring facility, or urgent care. The question everyone asks is "what does this lab mean?" and "what do I need to worry about?" In this episode we'll discuss some common abnormal laboratories we see in the pre-hospital setting and what to look out for...