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Inside EMS

For 14 years, the  Inside EMS  podcast helped drive conversations shaping the profession. Across nearly 900 episodes, hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson examined hot topics affecting providers and leaders, from field operations and clinical decision-making to technology adoption, workforce challenges and agency leadership. With more than 2.3 million downloads and listeners in 51 countries, the podcast built a lasting archive of practical insight, debate and perspective for every stage of an EMS career. While new episodes have concluded, the  Inside EMS archive  (and the  Inside EMS YouTub...

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insideems.podbean.com

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May 8, 2026

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Episodes

Inside EMS Podcast: The 70-minute time on task limit 10.09.2015

Inside EMS Podcast: The 70-minute time on task limit by EMS1 Podcasts

Quick Clip: How to handle clinical scenarios in 60 minutes or less 10.09.2015

Quick Clip: How to handle clinical scenarios in 60 minutes or less by EMS1 Podcasts

Inside EMS Podcast: The 5 food evils 03.09.2015

Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss nutrition with Fit Responder President Bryan Fass

Quick Clip: What are the best snacks to eat during your shift? 03.09.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson are joined by Fit Responder President Bryan Fass to discuss nutrition.

Inside EMS Podcast: Va. shooting prompts call for EMS body armor again 31.08.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson also discuss the story out of Beaufort, S.C., where count employees lost their health benefits

Quick Clip: Should we ever step over patients? 28.08.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the pros and cons of stepping over patients

Quick Clip: How should medics have handled DNR request with no order? 21.08.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the ethics of six responders who followed a man’s request to stop CPR on his wife without having DNR paperwork.

Inside EMS Podcast: Should time on EMS calls be tracked? 21.08.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss a story about N.C. medics being incentivized to run calls in under 70 minutes

Inside EMS Podcast: Should paramedic schools offer specializations? 14.08.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the benefits if paramedic schools were to start offering programs where students can focus on a specific niche in the EMS field.

Quick Clip: What are the career paths for paramedics? 14.08.2015

From community paramedicine to industrial safety, hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson disucss ways paramedics can specialilze in the EMS field

Inside EMS Podcast: How to decrease EMS providers‘ stress 06.08.2015

Guest Donny Richard from a mental health facility discusses ways EMS providers can better manage their mental health and when they should seek help

Quick Clip: How to recognize you need mental health help 06.08.2015

Guest Donny Richard from an intensive outpatient program discusses the triggers that indicate you may be suffering from a mental health issue and should seek help.

Inside EMS: How to safely drive an ambulance with lights and sirens 30.07.2015

Inside EMS: How to drive an ambulance with lights and sirens

Quick Clip: How to handle shaking hands on a call 30.07.2015

Hosts Chris and Kelly respond to a listener from South Dakota who is being teased because her hands were shaking on a critical call

Inside EMS Podcast: More tactical medicine training for EMS? 25.07.2015

After a gunman opened fire on a movie theater in Louisiana, hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson ponder whether tactical medicine should be a part of initial EMS training.

Quick Clip: Grayson‘s inside perspective on ”hogtied” patient who died 24.07.2015

Inside EMS co-host Kelly Grayson provides information from EMS colleagues who were witnesses at the scene, who say the incident appeared to be a case of excited delirium.

Quick Clip: ‘Ignore the camera‘ when bystanders start filming 16.07.2015

Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson advise to “shut your mouth and do your job” rather than engage with a member of the public recording a patient in a public place during a call.

Inside EMS Podcast: Behind the scenes of a heroin addict 10.07.2015

Host Chris Cebollero talks about the toll heroin is taking on a friend’s daughter, and discuss fatal incidents that involved people launching fireworks from their bodies.

Inside EMS Podcast: Dr. Bledsoe talks EMS protocols, community paramedicine 02.07.2015

EMS educator Bledsoe discusses when is it acceptable to deviate from protocols, and the role of community paramedicine in the future.

Quick Clip: What is an acceptable protocol deviation? 02.07.2015

Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss when it’s acceptable to deviate from protocols with Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, an emergency physician, paramedic and EMS educator. Bledsoe says there should be clinical guidelines, and that he’s supportive of doing something that may not be in the protocols, but is well supported by research and medical theory.

Quick Clip: Why EMS training should teach more analytical skills 02.07.2015

Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson talk with Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, an emergency physician, paramedic and EMS educator, on how to improve EMS training. Bledsoe explains that “EMS is not linear” and we need to change the initial training for EMS providers.

Quick Clip: What does a blood pressure reading really measure? 30.06.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson explain how blood pressure relates the bigger-picture of blood circulation throughout the body

Quick Clip: Tips for taking a patient’s blood pressure 30.06.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson provide advice on how to get a good blood pressure reading, especially when in the back of an ambulance.

Inside EMS Podcast: Criminal charges for EMT who didn‘t respond? 26.06.2015

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss whether an EMT who refused to respond to an infant in cardiac arrest should be held criminally liable for the infant's death.

Quick Clip: A patient handoff report challenge 19.06.2015

Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson go head-to-head with a mock patient handoff report; how do your skills stack up?

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