Here's a great case submitted by "Phil"… As usual, some details have been changed to preserve patient confidentiality. It's 9 am, and you and your partner are called to an apartment complex for a 46 year old female, injuries from a fall which occurred the previous night.  You arrive to find the woman seated in […]

EMS 12-Lead podcast – Episode #1 – Syncope and sudden death in student athletes. Tom Bouthillet, David Baumrind and Christopher Watford are joined by Dr. John Mandrola from the Dr. John M blog. We discuss sudden death in student athletes, the controversy surounding the prescreening of student athletes, the need for AEDs in the schools, […]

Here is the conclusion to 47 year old male CC: Crushing chest pain. You may want to go back and read the original case presentation to see how we got to this point. When we left off we had this rhythm on the monitor and surprisingly the patient was conscious and talking!  As usual there […]

If you've been following my fan page on Facebook you've probably already heard about the ACLS Review app by Limmer Creative. To give you some background, Dan Limmer is a well known EMT textbook author with lots of street cred. You might recall his appearance on the EMS EduCast live from the conference floor at […]

Here's an awesome case submitted by Phil, an Intensive Care Paramedic from Australia. Some minor changes have been made to ensure patient confidentiality. EMS is called to a track and field event for a 47 year old male patient with chest pain. On arrival the patient is found lying on the grass with a cold, […]

This is the discussion for 89 year old female CC: Sick.  You may wish to go back and review the case. To begin, lets review one of the 12 leads: Many of you correctly identified this as a third degree block….however, the etiology of the block was at the time unknown, especially in light of […]

This is the discussion for 17 year old male CC: Syncope. You may wish to go back and familiarize yourself with the details of the case. Let's take another look at the 12-lead ECG. It wasn't that long ago that I was trying to convince paramedics to perform 12-lead ECGs on chest pain patients. I […]

It's a snowy afternoon, when you and your partner are called to a local doctor's office for an 89 year old female with "flu-like symptoms", including nausea and vomiting over the past two days. You walk into Room 2, and find a sick looking woman lying back on the exam bed…She is alert and oriented, and […]

10 Questions with Jodi Doering, RN – South Dakota AHA Mission: Lifeline Director 1.) How long have you been working with AHA Mission: Lifeline? Do you enjoy your job? I have been with MLSD (Mission: Lifeline South Dakota) since September 16, 2010. My background prior to that is in EMS and as an RN in […]