MedicCast Audio Podcast for EMT Paramedics and EMS Students

What’s going on at the Federal level that impacts you at the street EMS level? We’ll look at what your colleagues and representatives at the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) did this past week at the EMS On The Hill Day event promoting the Field EMS Bill. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 434 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. This week’s show is a little special as I got the chance to do a live web stream with the National Association of EMTs, the NAEMT, during their opening ceremonies and briefing for members who were in town for the EMS On The Hill Day event. This is the event that offers constituents who are EMS providers and medical directors to meet with their congressional members and their staffs and talk about EMS issues. I won’t play the entire event here on the segment but I will play the pertinent parts of the briefing that talk about the Field EMS Bill that is before congress and the U.S. House of Representatives EMS Caucus and the proposed Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2015. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up!   —- Tip of the Week:  Field EMS Bill and NAEMT Coming up next is the official lobbyist for EMS at the Federal level, Attorney Lisa Tofil who is a partner at the firm, Holland and Knight in Washington, DC. She covers the purpose of the Field EMS Bill and how to talk to your congressional leaders about it, which you can do by email or over the phone right where you are now. Then NAEMT Industry Relations Manager Melissa Trumbull comes up and talks about ...

Narcan at home, narrative documentation helps, caring for special needs patients, and we’ll chat with EMS Today keynote speaker Gordon Graham from the Physio-Control Podcast Studio about building a culture of accountability in EMS systems. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 433 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look a several news items for EMTs and paramedics including one story about what you can do to prepare for special needs patients in your community. Then in this week’s special tip of the week, we have another segment from EMS Today back in February with keynote speaker Gordon Graham on his push to develop systems of accountability in EMS. He also talks about the importance of doing thorough background checks in EMS hiring. Do you think we do enough already? We’ll find out what Gordon thinks later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News   Getting Civilians Trained for Narcan at Home Documentation for Non Transports is Essential Learning About Caring for Special-Needs Patients —- Tip of the Week:  EMS Systems of Accountability

EMS telemedicine connection, police EMTs, saving your own mother, and we’ll visit with another one of our EMS 10 Awardees in the Physio-Control Podcast Studio at EMS Today. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 432 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at how the Houston Fire Department is using mobile telemedicine technology to connect non-emergency patients with physicians in the field. Then in this week’s tip of the week segment from EMS Today this past February, I bring you an interview with Scott Matin who won an EMS 10 Innovator award this year for his team’s research into how hi-visibility gear impacts safety on highway responses. We’ll find out more about that later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News ETHAN Connects EMS Patients To Docs Using Telemedicine App Police Officers Cross-Trained as EMTs Saving Your Mom on the Ambulance   —- Tip of the Week:  Using Hi-Vis Clothing on EMS Scenes At the EMS Today conference in Baltimore this past month,

Nurse Triage 911, stop bleeding with new gel, tired medics make mistakes, and we’ll look at an interview with EMS 10 Awardee Douglas Kupas on his statewide pit-crew CPR program. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 431 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at one story on how nurses on 911 triage lines can help lessen the call volume load in one EMS system. Then in this week’s tip segment we have another special segment from our EMS 10 Award winners at EMS Today back in February. This time we have Doug Kupas chatting with EMS Garage host Chris Montera about his pit crew CPR project to improve patient outcomes in cardiac arrest. Can you do something like this in your system? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News 911 Nurse Triage Helping EMS Volume Hemorrhage Control Gel for Traumatic Injury Care Overtired EMS Providers Prone to Medical Errors —- Tip of the Week:  Setting a Statewide Pit-Crew CPR Standard People in EMS have been talking about Pit-Crew style CPR in the field for EMS providers ...

Pit Crew CPR YouTube video excels, learning when patients can refuse care, moral/ethical dilemmas with paramedics and lethal injection, and we’ll have the next in our series of EMS 10 Awardees with innovator Dan Swayze from the Pittsburgh Center for Emergency Medicine. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 430 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at what one EMS system is doing to teach its crews how to do pit-crew CPR the right way on YouTube! Then in this week’s special tip segment from the Physio-Control Podcast Studio at EMS Today 2015 in Baltimore, we interview Dr. Dan Swayze from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Center for Emergency Medicine there. What is Dan doing to implement award-winning mobile integrated healthcare in his community? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Pit Crew CPR Video Teaches Lessons to EMS When Can Patients Refuse Care? Paramedics and Lethal Injection Practices —- Tip of the Week:  Mobile Integrated Healthcare in Pittsburgh This week on the show, we bring you another of the EMS 10 Interviewee...

Are c-collars going away, national EMS clinical guidelines get released, one paramedic learns a lesson about selfies on the job, and we’ll take a look at another product innovator pick from EMS Today 2015 in Baltimore last month where podcast host Sam Bradley brought on the folks from the EMS Museum project to talk about innovation past, present and future. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 428 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at the new national EMS clinical guidelines that have been released recently. Then in this week’s tip of the week segment we feature EMS past, present and future in one of our product innovator picks from EMS Today 2015 last month. Disaster Podcast host Sam Bradley saw value and innovation in the history of EMS and the long line of innovative patient care tools we have used along the way. What can you do to support the mission of the national EMS museum? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Evidence to Reduce EMS C-Collar Use National EMS Clinical Protocols Released NASEMSO Protocols Link Paramed...

Looking at EMS Failures, Maine seatbelt law change, special needs patient care, and we’ll look at the first of our product innovator picks from EMS Today 2015 with the i-Gel advanced airway tool brought in by paramedic and product expert Dan White. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 427 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll take a look at several articles that have to do with EMS leadership qualities in outreach, patient care, and system improvement. Then in this week’s special tip segment, I bring you a look at the first of our product innovator picks from the EMS Today 2015 conference held last month in Baltimore. My friend and fellow paramedic Dan White came over to our booth to talk about the i-Gel supraglottic airway management device. Check out that segment later in the episode after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News EMS Leadership and Why EMS Systems Fail Get Rid of Seatbelt Laws, Maine Are You Insane? EMS and Special Needs Patient Care —- Tip of the Week:  i-Gel Offers Innovative EMS Airway Solution Starting off my coverage of innovative products from EMS Today 2015 is a loo...

West Virginia high school CPR, EMTs in medical school, EMS depression and suicide under the microscope, and we’ll look at an innovative code sepsis EMS program in another EMS 10 interview segment from EMS Today. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 426 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we look at how some states’ educational policies are working to make our jobs easier. Then in this week’s special tip segment from the Physio-Control podcast studio at EMS Today 2015 we have have an interview with EMS 10 Awardee Kevin Callopy from North Carolina. He has created a code sepsis program that is changing the way his EMS teams identify, treat and transport EMS sepsis patients. How does he do it and what can you do to emulate it? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News West Virginia Becomes 21st Mandatory High School CPR Education State Medical Schools Starting to Require EMT Training Managing Depression and Suicide in EMS   —- Tip of the Week:  Code Sepsis Program in North Carolina Innovates EMS Care At the EMS Today conference in Baltimore this past month,

EMS staging rules and public understanding, leading by following, UK NHS paramedic cutbacks, and we’ll have the first of our EMS10 Innovators interviews from the EMS Today Conference last week in Baltimore. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 425 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at the charges that EMS scene safety and staging rules caused a woman’s injuries to be more severe in Milwaukee. Could EMS have gone in and helped her sooner? Then in this week’s EMS interview segment from EMS Today in the Physio-Control podcast studio there, we have the first of the EMS10 Awardee interviews from the conference. These innovators represent the best of the best in EMS for the past year. How can you bring something from their innovative programs back to your systems? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Milwaukee Residents Have Issue With EMS Scene Safety Protocol Leaders Learn Skills From Following Sometimes UK NHS Paramedics Struggling With Budget Cuts and Staffing —- Tip of the Week:  Peter Antevy Creates Confident Pediatric Resuscitators

Hospitals miss heart attacks, surviving your EMS career, more AEDs in use everyday, and we’ll look at two viruses that are running rampant at this time of year, RSV and seasonal flu, and what we might do to distinguish between the two and maybe prevent them. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 424 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items I found a great article by our friend from down under Benjamin Gilmour on surviving your EMS career as an EMT or paramedic. Then in this week’s tip of the week segment, I bring you a special interview I originally did on the Nursing Show talking about the differences between seasonal flu and the RSV viruses. I decided that this is a topic for EMS providers as well since we see so many sick patients this time of year. Do you know the differences to look for between these two viruses? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Hospitals, STEMI Recognition and Treatment Ben Gilmour on Surviving an EMS Career AEDs In the Wild Saving Lives Everyday —- Tip of the Week:  RSV vs Flu in Young Pediatric Patients

CPR crew crashes, volunteer EMS plummets, EMS call volume rises, and we’ll visit with our good friend Lisa Booze from the Maryland Poison Center to see what we can do to help prevent increases in opioid overdose deaths and support community Narcan dosing programs. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored in part by Med Math Simplified. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on Amazon.com. MedicCast Episode 423 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at two articles that have lessons to give regarding EMS call volume and volunteer EMS staffing and funding. Then in this week’s tip of the week segment we visit again with Lisa Booze from the Maryland Poison Center and learn more about the national epidemic of opioid overdoses and what you and your community might do to help deal with the problem. Prevention is always important but coordinating a rapid response to those overdoses is important also. We’ll find out more about that later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Ambulance Crashes With CPR In Progress Volunteer EMS Staffing and Funding Crises EMS Systems and Municipalities Face Tough Funding Decisions —- Tip of the Week:  Opioid Death Rates and Community Narcan Programs

EMS med shortages, improving EMS documentation, females more harmed by nightshift, and we’ll look at the power of podcasting and the MedicCast in particular with a special interview from a successful product we covered in the past. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. This episode is sponsored in part by Physio-Control. Visit them and find out more about their life-saving tools to help you innovate patient care at Physio-Control.com. Friend or follow them on social media channels like Facebook or Twitter. MedicCast Episode 422 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we look at concerning EMS medication shortages seen in some ambulance systems around the country. Then in this week’s special tip and interview segment from EMS World Expo in the Physio-Control podcast studio back in Nashville. Dr. Peter Antevy comes by the booth to talk with Chris Montera of the EMS Garage and I about the power of our podcasts in covering and promoting his product the Handtevy Pediatric Medication Dosing System. How did being featured on our shows almost two years ago help him get the word out? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News EMS Organizations Facing More Medication Shortages EMS Documentation is Always Needing Improvement Night Shift Harder on Females Than Males —- Tip of the Week:  Peter Antevy on Handtevy Peds Med System This week on the tip segment I bring you the last of the segments we recorded at EMS World Expo last year in November with Dr. Peter Antevy who created the now renowned Handtevy pediatric medication and dosing system for PALs and pediatric critical care. We first talked with Peter when he debuted his syst...

Dangers of alcohol poisoning, San Diego integrated health grants, do we really need an armored assault ambulance and we’ll bring you the last of our product innovator picks from EMS World Expo back in Nashville, Tennessee. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast. This episode is sponsored in part by Physio-Control. Visit them and find out more about their life-saving tools to help you innovate patient care at Physio-Control.com. Friend or follow them on social media channels like Facebook or Twitter. MedicCast Episode 420 Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the MedicCast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I’d like to welcome you to this week’s show. In this week’s EMS news items we’ll look at a controversial purchase of an armored assault ambulance for hot zone active shooter incident evacuation. Then in this week’s tip of the week segment we have the last of the product innovator picks from EMS World Expo with the Doty Belt lift assist device, chosen by Disaster Podcast host Sam Bradley. How will this help you lift heavy and difficult to handle patients? We’ll find out later in the show after the news. Contact the MedicCast If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at podmedic@mac.com. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the free MedicCast app from the Google play store. Get the free MedicCast EMS app for iOS. I got an email from EMT audience member Josh who wanted to thank me for the show each week and to ask for a shout out to his service and their paramedic partners. So to the gang at Ambitrans Naples, I offer you kudos on the hard work you do and hope you enjoy the upcoming holiday season safely. Take care and keep checking out the MedicCast! That’s it for this part of the show, let’s get ready for the news coming right up! —————————- EMS News Alcohol Poisoning Kills Six People a Day Health System Offers Integrated Health Grants in San Diego Armored Ambulance Protests in California —- Tip of the Week:  Doty Belt Puts Handles on Difficult to Lift Patients In another of our EMS product innovator picks from EMS World Expo 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee, Disaster Podcast host Sam Bradley comes on the finale episode there with me and EMS Garage host Chris Montera to chat about the Doty Belt lift assist device. Founder and inventor Glen Doty comes on with Sam and the team to talk about the origins of the Doty Belt and how he, a career firefighter,

Disinfectant from tap water, Discounts for first responders, and self heating meals, it must be our finale from EMS World Expo. If that's what you're looking for you found it right here on the MedicCast! MedicCast Episode 312 (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-08-at-9.26.50-AM1-300x193.png)Good day and welcome to this week's episode of the MedicCast. I'm your host, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic and I'd like to welcome you to this week's show. There are some pretty exciting things coming up in this week's program as we kick off our three part finale from EMS World Expo 2012. This week has the first three product innovator picks from our podcasting team. First off is Chris Montera's pick, a disinfectant and cleaner made from ordinary tap water in your station. Next up is my pick, an online discount shopping service only open to military and first responders. And we'll wrap up this first segment with Chris Cebollero's tasty pick, self-heating MRE's. Check all that out coming right up! Before we get to all that, make sure you get all of the links and resources available in the shownotes at MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog). You'll find the shownotes link at the top of the page. Click that link and check out all of the episodes from the most recent post all the way back to episode 1 on the MedicCast. You'll find links to the news items and all of the additional resources that go with each week's Tip of the Week. Follow up on that information and figure out how it applies directly to your protocols and scope of practice. Make sure you get back in touch with me. Send e-mails in to podmedic@Mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com). I get back to everyone that sends e-mails in to me here to the MedicCast. I hope you will go ahead and send those e-mails with your comments, corrections and suggestions in here to the show. EMS World Expo 2012 (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PC-border-cmyk-150x150.jpg)This episode was recorded at EMS World Expo 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana in the ProMed Network Podcast Studio sponsored by Physio-Control, Inc. I want to thank Physio-Control (http://physio-control.com) for sponsoring our ProMed Network podcast studio at this event. —————————- Links for this episode Chris Montera is host of the EMS Garage podcast (http://EMSGarage.com). Chris Cebollero is host of the EMS Leadership podcast (http://emsleadship.com). GEN-X-3 Cleaner Product site (http://GEN-X-3.com). GovX.com Responder Discount site (http://govx.com). Meal Kit Supply self heating MREs (http://mealkitsupply.com). —- Contact the MedicCast Take a look at these articles. You can find these links at the MedicCast site (MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog)) in the shownotes for this episode. Get back to me. Let me know what you think about these news items by email at Podmedic@Mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com) or sending a message via Facebook(Facebook.com/podmedic (http://Facebook.com/podmedic)) or Twitter (twitter.com/podmedic (http://twitter.com/podmedic)). — The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network (http://promednetwork.com/). —- MP3 Audio Podcast (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/category/podcasts/) (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeItunes.png)iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mediccast-audio-podcast-for/id165682697#) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeZune.png)Zune (//subscribe/?MedicCast%20EMS%20Podcast=http://www.mediccast.com/blog/feed/podcast/) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeRSS.png)Podcast (http://mediccast.com/blog/feed/podcast/) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeRSS.png)Blog (http://mediccast.com/blog/feed/) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeTwitter.png)Twitter (http://twitter.com/podmedic) | 

Mechanical and manual CPR, high quality compressions and educating providers to perform good CPR. If that's what you're looking for, you found it on this week's episode of the MedicCast. MedicCast Episode 311 (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CPRinAmbo_sm1.jpg)Good day and welcome to this week's episode of the MedicCast. I'm your host Jamie Davis the Podmedic and I'd like to welcome all of you to the program this week. In this special episode segment from EMS World Expo in the Physio-Control Podcast Studio, host Jamie Davis is joined by Dr. Jeff Elder from New Orleans EMS, Karen Wojcik, clinical educator from Physio-Control. Along with these two esteemed panelists, author and educator Stephen Rahm (@StephenRahm on Twitter (http://twitter.com/stephenrahm)) and Scott Kier from MedicSBK.com (http://MedicSBK.com) join the discussion. This panel comes together to talk about the importance of rapid recognition of cardiac arrest, CPR and high quality compressions.  Find more at MedicCast.tv (http://mediccast.tv). Before we get to all that, make sure you get all of the links and resources available in the shownotes at MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog). You'll find the shownotes link at the top of the page. Click that link and check out all of the episodes from the most recent post all the way back to episode 1 on the MedicCast. You'll find links to the news items and all of the additional resources that go with each week's Tip of the Week. Follow up on that information and figure out how it applies directly to your protocols and scope of practice. Make sure you get back in touch with me. Send e-mails in to podmedic@Mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com). I get back to everyone that sends e-mails in to me here to the MedicCast. I hope you will go ahead and send those e-mails with your comments, corrections and suggestions in here to the show. EMS World Expo 2012 (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PC-border-cmyk-150x150.jpg)This episode was recorded in the Physio-Control podcast studio at EMS World Expo 2012 in New Orleans. Along with many of the EMS podcasts from the ProMed Network, the MedicCast was able to interview special guests and bring coverage of the Expo to the entire audience. I do want to thank Physio-Control (http://physio-control.com) for sponsoring our ProMed Network podcast studio at this event. —————————- Links for this episode You can find more from Stephen Rahm by connecting with him on Twitter (@StephenRahm) (http://twitter.com/stephenrahm). Scott Kier is the author of the Medic SBK blog at MedicSBK.com (http://MedicSBK.com). —- Contact the MedicCast Take a look at these articles. You can find these links at the MedicCast site (MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog)) in the shownotes for this episode. Get back to me. Let me know what you think about these news items by email at Podmedic@Mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com) or sending a message via Facebook(Facebook.com/podmedic (http://Facebook.com/podmedic)) or Twitter (twitter.com/podmedic (http://twitter.com/podmedic)). — The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network (http://promednetwork.com/). —- MP3 Audio Podcast (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/category/podcasts/) (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeItunes.png)iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mediccast-audio-podcast-for/id165682697#) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeZune.png)Zune (zune://subscribe/?MedicCast%20EMS%20Podcast=http://www.mediccast.com/blog/feed/podcast/) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeRSS.png)Podcast (http://mediccast.com/blog/feed/podcast/) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeRSS.png)Blog (http://mediccast.com/blog/feed/) | (http://mcst-images.s3.amazonaws.com/mediccast_images/SubscribeTwitter.png)Twitter