The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Naloxone and Patient Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in California. Before attending medical school, he was a New York City Paramedic. Case: You are working as a paramedic, and you respond to a cardiac arrest. Your partner asks if you want to administer naloxone as well. JAMA Network Open.

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Peter Canning

JANUARY 14, 2024

Our sponsor hospital, like all sponsor hospitals in Connecticut, requires their paramedics to have these certifications current. Here are some of the highlights: EMRs and EMTs may administer Naloxone IM in a dose of 0.4 Sodium bicarbonate should only be administered in cardiac arrest for suspected sodium channel blocker overdoses.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

MARCH 1, 2021

Knowing how, why and when, or not, to go ahead is one thing, but knowing how to manage when something goes wrong, has to be our most sound safeguard in aiming for the safest of paramedic practice. The “Uncovering The Undo Button” chapter in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic Student Handbook , has a few suggestions.

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Peter Canning

APRIL 14, 2025

This week I attended a meeting in the Governors office in the state capitol to advocate for a bill creating the states first overdose prevention center. We also had two speakers who appeared via zoom, a public interest lawyer and a woman who ran the overdose prevention site in nearby Rhode island.

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