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How Long Does It Take to Become an EMT?

Unitek EMT

Explore the Path to Becoming an EMT: Timeline, Training Requirements, and What to Expect Along the Way. Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) are vital members of the healthcare and emergency response system. They are often the first healthcare providers on the scene of accidents, medical emergencies, and disasters, delivering life-saving care and ensuring patients are transported […] The post How Long Does It Take to Become an EMT?

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ECG 11/12/2024

EMergucate

A 23yr presents following a syncope, he denies chest pain. The following ECG is taken: What does this ECG demonstrate?

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Register Now: EMS Focus Webinar

American Ambulance Association

WEBINAR Post-Crash Care – Innovations in Managing Patient Entrapment and Extrication Hosted by NHTSAs Office of EMS on Thursday, December 19, at 1pm ET / 10am PT EMS clinicians respond […] The post Register Now: EMS Focus Webinar appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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Lab case 453 interpretation

EMergucate

PH = 6.782, that is severe acidaemia. HCO3 = 2.5 mmol/L, that is extremely low. So we have metabolic acidosis.

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Leadership Notes: Valley Forge

The FllightBridge ED

In the winter of 1777 through the spring of 1778, the Continental Army was dying.

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Lab case 454

EMergucate

2-year-old boy brought to ED by ambulance as category 1 for severe croup. His blood gases showed the following.

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Leadership Notes: Valley Forge

The FllightBridge ED

In the winter of 1777 through the spring of 1778, the Continental Army was dying.

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Podcast – Reflections from the London Trauma Conference 2024: Insights and Inspiration

St. Emlyn's

St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed A podcast with some of the highlights from the London Trauma Conference 2024 The post Podcast – Reflections from the London Trauma Conference 2024: Insights and Inspiration appeared first on St.Emlyn's.

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Abstract: Paramedicine, mental health, and crisis calls in the community: Highlights for leadership | 05 December 2024

Paramedic Chiefs of Canada

What will we be discussing? The negative consequences of burnout in EMS stretch well-beyond the individual and can affect entire organizations as well as the patients served. Nevertheless, most traditional interventions aimed to reduce burnout focus on the individual and fail to address the underlying systematic causes. In this session, Dr. Remle Crowe will review the latest research and present organizational-level strategies to meaningfully reduce and prevent burnout at your EMS agency.

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Ep 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?

This Podcast Will Kill You

For decades, it seemed like the appendix would go the way of 8-track players, pagers, and the phonograph. Outdated, obsolete, not worth keeping around. Surgeons performed appendectomies like it was spring cleaning – when in doubt, cut it out. But then the tides began to turn as medicine started to question the long-held belief that the appendix is a defunct organ (on a good day) or a ticking time bomb (on a very bad one).

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