Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles - Advanced Continuing Education for Paramedics, EMTs & Prehospital Care Providers

Summer's not over yet which means the snakes they are a still slithering. Come learn everything you need to know about treating North American snake bites in the field and dispel some myths along the way.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the fi...

Dr. Lesley Pepin joins us to talk about the nuances of cocaine overdose and it's various managements. There's more than you think. And the more you know could make a difference and save a life.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Boo...

Join us for part three of our four part series looking at the physiologically difficult airway. Matt takes us through the approach to severe metabolic acidosis and why these patients are so dangerous to intubate. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in...

Join us for part two of our four part series looking at the physiologically difficult airway. Matt takes us through the different causes of hypotension, why these patients are so dangerous to intubate, and how to resuscitate before you intubate.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% i...

We discuss the following paper and its impact on our prehospital management.  Prehospital narrow pulse pressure predicts need for resuscitative thoracotomy and emergent intervention after trauma Schellenberg M, Owattanapanich N, Getrajdman J, et al. J Surg Res. 2021;268:284-290. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build r...

Ross and Matt discuss the importance of preoxygenating hypoxic patients prior to intubating them. This is the first of a 4 part series on the physiologically difficult airways. Link to the makeshift CPAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHGMIQBak6A Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1%...

Will Berry and Ben Fisher join the show again to teach us about the handheld device on your hip. Do you really know how to use your radio? What do you do if it fails? It's important to talk and think about these things before they happen.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS a...

Paramedic Will Berry sits down with toxicologist John Rague to talk about all things carbon monoxide including why snorkels aren't helpful. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses Interested in The Loud & Clear Fellowship? Book a free coaching call with us: emspodcast.com/free-coaching-call American Burn Association / ABLS: Ente...

Ben Fisher, paramedic and NEMSIS guru, joins us to talk about what NEMSIS is and it's importance to the career field. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMS cast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Book a call to get personalized guidance, improve decision-making under pressur...

Glen Andrews has 28 years of experience in medicine but on July 21st, he had to put all of his experience behind and surrender his fate to the care of others. Join us to hear how this event changed him and the insights he has gained from now being on both sides of the gurney.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Wan...

Lance Ray joins us to emphasize the importance of correct seizure treatment. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Book a call to get personalized guidance, improve decision-making under pressure, and grow your skills as a paramedic: em...

We sit down with pharmacist Lance Ray about dirty epi drips. These are probably our best prehospital option but they aren't silver bullets and they come with downsides. In other words, "we don't call em dirty for nothin." Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real conf...

Emergency Physician and Toxicology Fellow John Rague joins us to discuss the presentation and management of digoxin toxicity in addition to other cardiac glycosides. Digoxin is not as commonly prescribed anymore thus our teaching on this topic has become less common. But digoxin and other cardiac glycosides are still available and used today so it's still important to understand the recognition an...

A deep dive on MCI with Will Berry. You have to practice.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Book a call to get personalized guidance, improve decision-making under pressure, and grow your skills as a paramedic: emspodcast.com/free-...

Toxicology fellow extraordinaire Alexa Camarena-Michel, MD joins us again to talk about one of sickest overdose patients you may see. Calcium channel blocker and beta blocker overdose patients can be really sick and are often refractory to our standard therapies. Learn how to better manage these patients.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Opti...

A longer one than usual. We take a deep dive into hypothermia with wilderness medicine physician and expert Martin Musi. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Book a call to get personalized guidance, improve decision-making under press...

Alexa Camarena-Michel teaches us a simple approach to caustic ingestions and more. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Book a call to get personalized guidance, improve decision-making under pressure, and grow your skills as a paramed...

Dr. Wright joins us to discuss acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). There has been a lot said about ARDS recently given some of it's similarities to the COVID-19 disease process. That being said ARDS has been around for a long time and is very much its own disease process. We discuss how to define it, how to recognize it, and how we treat it. There are some great media and pictures to help...

Undiagnosed or misdiagnosed diabetes is common because of how vague the symptoms can be. Chief Harper from Denver Paramedics tells us his incredible personal story dealing with his son's diagnoses, his path to becoming an expert on diabetes, and how we should think about this as prehospital providers. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Su...

This month we sit down with Assistant Medical Director Whitney Barrett to discuss the dos and don'ts of calling in for medical control.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Book a call to get personalized guidance, improve decision-ma...

This is still included in the A of ABCs but I got essentially no training on this in paramedic school. I honestly didn’t get much formal training on this after becoming an ED doc either. I just had to bug RTs and ICU docs to learn what I know now. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses Airway problems are terrifyring without an app...

We discuss where things go wrong with how we talk to each other and how we can do better. Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses Resources: Want to stay ahead of the top 1% in EMS and build real confidence in the field? 👉 Book a call to get personalized guidance, improve decision-making under pressure, and grow your skills as a pa...

EMS physician Whitney Barrett joins us to discuss some of the scariest and emotional calls we can go on and how we can manage these situations better.  Enter to Win a FREE Pair of Frontline Optics Sunglasses EMScast15 for 15% Off Frontline Optics Sunglasses   Caring for the critically ill pediatric patient is scary for all emergency providers. We discussed our approach to these calls with attendin...

Maria Moreira joins us to to discuss the intricacies to managing penetrating neck wounds. There are a lot of important structures in the neck and damage to these structures are often life threatening and require quick action to stabilize. We break down how to organize these structures in your mind and develop a treatment plan based on what you're seeing on exam. We'll also take it one step further...

First and foremost, we would like to thank all pre-hospital providers for the work you do. You are all underpaid, understaffed, and under appreciated. However, the unsung work that you do matters now more than ever. We go to work every day in order to be there when the public needs us. Much of the focus as of late has been on COVID. And probably rightfully so. But patients continue to have MI’s, s...