MedFlight Radio

MedFlight Radio starts out 2025 with a bang as we do our first polytrauma case review with a scene trauma run to one of our ownership's hospital Level one trauma Facility--The Ohio State Medical Center.    We did this in a two-part series to highlight the prehospital side of things with MedFlight on the scene and then part two focuses on the hospital side of things and the care throughout the hosp...

What is going on in the Infectious disease world at MedFlight and MedCare in 2024.    Is COVID still a thing?  What were the top three types of infectious disease patients we transported this past year ?   What can I do to identify them and protect myself from exposure?       MedFlight Radio seats down with Keri Lejzerowicz, MedFlight and MedCare Infection Control Specialists to find out.    You w...

March of 2024 is here, and we are back at it again on MedFlight Radio and this time we are talking about airway management in our cardiac arrest patients.  We sit down with Doctor Hussam Salhi (EMS Fellow and ER Doctor) and discuss this very topic.  The conversation dives right in on some of the most common airway adjuncts used in the field from BVM, to SGA and even oral intubation.    Which is be...

MedFlight Radio talks about pediatric trauma for the month of November.  We sit down with Dr. Chelsea Kadish, Recent Graduate EMS Fellow and Current Emergency Room Physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital.      The talk starts off with what we are doing well and what we can improve on in our pediatric trauma management in central Ohio.  We discuss TXA in our pediatric trauma patient, blood admi...

MedFlight Radio again takes to the road for its 2023 September podcast and heads over to The Ohio State University Medical Center.    We sit down with Dr. Nicole Bernal, Medical Director at the Ohio State University Level 1 Trauma Center Burn Unit in Central Ohio.      What are we doing well and what can we improve in our burn care management in Central Ohio.  Also, we talk about all the latest an...

Pediatric CPAP/BiPAP in the pre-hospital world.  Should we be doing it?  if not, why?  MedFlight Radio brings back Chris Newsome (Nationwide Children's Transport Medic) and Rob Glaze (Current MedFlight Medic and Retired from Westerville Fire Department ) to discuss this very topic.    We start by getting a good understanding of CPAP and BiPAP—what it is and how it works then quickly move into our...

MedFlight Radio welcomes to the show Monica Montgomery (MedFlight Flight Nurse and newly appointed Education Coordinator) and talks ABG's.  The talk focuses on all the whys and where's of blood gases.  When to get them?  What components make up blood gases?   How are they used for patient management? Can venous gases be as useful as arterial gases?  Come listen in and learn the basics behind blood...

This month we have a first on MedFlight Radio, as we have a married couple on the show to tackle "Sudden Cardiac Death".    This is no ordinary couple as we invite in Dr Kevin Stiver an adult Interventional Cardiologist at OhioHealth Riverside Hospital and Doctor Corey Stiver a pediatric cardiologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital here in Columbus, Ohio Listen in as we talk about the similariti...

MedFlight Radio takes to the road and heads over to The Ohio State University to learn more about a new clinical trial on head bleeds.  We sit down with Doctor Yousef Hannawi and Luke Herren to find out all about it.  Where can we get better with our patients that present with head bleeds?  What potential treatments are in store for the future?  Are all the Columbus Based Hospitals in on this stud...

This month we invite Debra Tortora to our podcast as we welcome her into her new role of Risk Management and Legal Affairs at MedFlight/Medcare.   While she is with us we cover the topic of "Medication Errors".   Is this really a problem?    What are the most common medication errors and how I can avoid them?   What about securing medications, is that my responsible too?   Can I be criminally char...

July is pediatric sepsis month and we sit down with our partners at Nationwide Children's Hospital Transport Team to learn all about it.  This is another one of those time sensitive disease processes where early recognition and management become so important in surviving pediatric sepsis.     Just like always we start basic and then move more into advanced treatment for this disease process.   Thi...

In this episode we discuss pediatric seizures with our newly appointed MedFlight Pediatric Medical Director and Nationwide Children Hospital Emergency Room Physician---Doctor Michael Stoner to discuss.   Also joining the podcast party are Dr Ashley Larrimore and Jason Pierce to go full circle on Pediatric seizures.   We have all heard about it in school and maybe not all of us medical professional...

Ohio is so lucky to have so many Stroke Comprehensive Treatment Centers in Central and Southwest Areas of our State. Today MedFlight Radio meets with three of the biggest Centers in the State of Ohio to discuss their assessment and treatment of strokes in their region.  Does Stroke care change from region to region?     We sit down with Renee Pack from OhioHealth Stroke Team, Sharon Heaton from OS...

MedFlight Radio is flying in a different direction for this personal and emotional episode.  Join us as we focus on safety and what it's like to the have to care of one of our own in the most unlikely scenario possible. We invite Dale Muetzel, Chuck Calissie, and Lyn Gilmore to the studio to discuss in detail the MedFlight MICU ground accident from four years ago.  The discussion takes us to the e...

MedFlight Radio takes the show on the road to the Regional Tertiary Center of The Ohio State University Medical Center to talk about ECMO. We sit down with Dr. Amar Bhatt and Dr. Travis Sharkey to get the lowdown on this topic.  Learn about the most cutting edge and complex technology out on the market the pushes the envelope in cardiac and respiratory resuscitation.   What is ECMO? Are there diff...

Can you believe it's March already!!!!!!  This month we invite Dr. Creagh Boulger to the MedFlight studio to discuss all the great diagnostic things that Ultrasound can do in the pre-hospital environment.   Is this something that should be left to a physician to interpret, or can we expand it out to critical care transport teams and field EMS?  What would we use it for?  How do we get buy in?  Wha...

We jump into the new year with our annual Stroke Managment update.  Join us as we sit down with Sharon Heaton (Neuro Program Manager at The Ohio State University) and Joel Jackson (MedFlight Flight Medic) as we discuss new updates regarding stroke care. What has changed and what is still the same in our assessment and managment of ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes.  Get the insight on what pre-hosp...

We finish out the 2021 calendar year with our December podcast on heart failure.  Our special guest this month is Dr. Sam Nobilucci who is an ER Physician at Adena Health System and former EMS fellow.  Also joining the team for another episode is Dr. Brad Raetzke, medical director for MedFlight and MedCare. What is heart failure and how common is it?  Listen in as we focus on gaining a better unde...

As the weather gets a little colder here in teh Midwest - we move our focus to more respiratory issues, and this month it is ARDS.  Join MedFlight Radio as we interview Dr. Travis Sharkey and Dr. Brad Raetzke on their experience with ARDS.   What is ARDS? How do we diagnose it? How do we manage it? Is prone positioning better? Do we intubate or not? ARDS Vent managment? These are just some of the...

MedFlight Radio continues on the pediatric road for October as we head back to Nationwide Children's Hospital for a pediatric congenital heart defect podcast.     We sit down with Doctor Beth Bubolz (Nationwide Children's Hospital Cardiologist) ,  Doctor Ashley Larrimore (MedFlight Medical Director) and Jason Pierce (MedFlight Flight Nurse) to talk about this highly complex, high risk, low volume...

September is "Aortic Dissection" month.    MedFlight Radio sits down with Dr. Johnathan Enlow (cardiothoracic surgeon), Dr Bradley Raetzke (ER Physician) and Sara Anderson (Outcomes Manager) and go full circle in our conversation on aortic dissection.  We start with the basic aortic anatomy 101 and review the aortic from where it arises from in the chest till it splits into the femoral arteries in...

August is back to a pediatric topic as MedFlight Radio finds their way back to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio  and talks on infant/pediatric airway.   Today we sit down with Doctor Jill Fitch (ICU intensivist at Nationwide Children Hospital)  and Jason Pierce (Former Nationwide Children Transport Nurse and Current MedFlight Flight Nurse/Education Coordinator).  The conversation d...

June is OB emergencies month and the focus on those high risk low volume runs.    We sit down with EMS Fellow Dr Janine Curcio and MedFlight/MedCare Medical Director Dr Brad Raetzke with this subject.   We start by talking about all of the physiological changes that go with being pregnant and then get into the most common emergencies you will see in field and hospital. As normal we talk about the...

May is Cardiac Arrest month!  Join Dr. Eric Cortez and Dr. Ashley Larrimore as we talk about where we are with medical cardiac arrest patients.  What works and what are the priorities in these cases?  While often controversial, many EMS agencies are taking different approaches to managing cardiac arrest. Come and listen.  You won't be disappointed.  

MedFlight Radio takes to the road for this podcast as we find ourselves at Ohio State University Medical Center East Campus with Dr Michael Sutherland (Trauma Medical Director at Ohio State Medical Center-East)  talking trauma.    Dr Ashley Larrimore, MedFlight's own medical director joins in as we get into some tough and controversial material.   We waste no time and jump right into talk on handl...