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Episode 72: CPR-induced consciousness with Jack Howard

Critical Care Scenarios

We discuss the phenomenon of CPR-induced consciousness (i.e. patients demonstrating awakeness during resuscitation) with Jack Howard, Intensive Care Paramedic at Ambulance Victoria in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, and first author on a recent literature review and Delphi-derived expert guideline on CPRIC management.

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The Colorado Verdict

Peter Canning

So you are an expert on paramedicine, but isn’t it true that you yourself are guilty of (long list of failures)…” They still wanted me, so I then sent them a blog post titled “ Your Hono r” which detailed a call I was on where I dropped a patient and one where I found myself with an empty oxygen tank. The ambulance responded.

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Trauma

My Paramedic Blog

I can feel the hunger for paramedicine again, the drive to learn, to push myself towards the goals I set back in 2009. I prayed the ambulance would go faster. I pounded on his chest, performing CPR. I remembered his words in the back of the ambulance to me, “All I wanted was to get home to my family.” Don’t you dare!”

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Talk less, listen more, drop the attitude

AmboFOAM

We have a large number of graduate paramedics starting with Ambulance Victoria this year, so it’s probably a good time to revisit a topic that seems to receive surprisingly little attention in an industry that relies so heavily upon it. This means that wherever possible the closest ambulance is sent to high priority cases.

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How to Become a Paramedic in the Army

Paramedic Training Spot

These prerequisites include maintaining a valid EMT-B certificate or higher, successfully completing a CAAHEP-accredited education program within the past 2 years, maintaining valid CPR-BLS credentials or their equivalent, and successfully completing the cognitive and psychomotor examination portions of the NREMT-P curriculum.