Atrial Flutter Reviewed and Episode 297




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Summary: Escaping violent encounters, cardiac kudos to Ottawa EMS, and a life-and-death training of new EMTs, plus we'll take a look at atrial flutter in this episode. You found it right here on the MedicCast. MedicCast Episode 297 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. We've got a great show coming up for you with some very interesting news items and our tip of the week were to continue a look at our atrial cardiac conduction system by carrying on looking at atrial flutter in this week's tip segment coming up, right after the news. Before we get to all that, I do want to remind you to follow up on all the information you'll find here on the MedicCas (http://mediccast.com/blog)t. I can talk about anything here in a few minutes and cover brief overviews and sometimes maybe even misspeak in some way. It's your job to know your scope of practice, your protocols, and the rules under which you operate your instructional guidelines. All those things are your job to know. I provide additional information links to the news items and to the tip segments so you can get more in-depth information and then you make sure you know how these things apply to your EMS career. Get back in touch with me by sending e-mails in to podmedic@mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com). I love hearing from each and every one of you. Send your comments or questions, your suggestions or links to news items to podmedic@mac.com. We'll have some other contact information coming up for you later in the show. EMS World Expo Coming Soon Before we get into the news, I do want to remind you we're going to  be at EMS World Expo coming up in just a few months now. That's going to be October 31 to November 2. We will be there in the exhibit hall live recording our programming right there on the show floor. I hope you'll be able to come by. Please take the time to shake my hand and say "hi." While you're there, you can just hang out listen to my show and the other shows from the ProMed Network. There's the EMS Garage with Chris Montera, the EMS Leadership podcast with Chris Cebolero. I hope you get a chance to come by and check it out. (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PC-border-cmyk-150x150.jpg)We do want to thank Physio-Control (http://facebook.com/physiocontrolinc) for being the sponsor of our podcast studio all three days there. If you haven’t already done so, check out their page over on Facebook. You can do that and the say thanks to them for sponsoring our shows. Also, use the Promo Code FP50 at EMSWorldExpo.com when you check out to get free exhibit hall access passes for the conference. When Patients Attack So, how many of you have been attacked by patient or in some way assaulted by a patient while on the job? It happens far too frequently and we don't get trained to defend ourselves. This is not about carrying a gun. We talked about that on last week's episode where EMTs in South Africa were carrying firearms with them on the job. I am not recommending that. However, some things you can learn how to do is to be able to escape and evade during a violent attack (http://www.newsherald.com/articles/through-104696-city-training.html). That's one of the things going on in Panama City Beach, Florida. The EMS providers down there together a class on self defense for EMS workers. Eighteen of them had all been assaulted on the job. Ottawa Cardiac Kudos (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/BackofAmbulance_sm1-150x150.jpg)A big high five for Ottawa EMS. This is a great article I picked up from the OttawaCitizen.com website. They reported that Ottawa paramedics had five cardiac arrest calls occur in 90 minutes (http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Ottawa+paramedics+kept+busy+with+five+cardiac+calls+minutes/7074397/story.html) recently. I don't care where you're from,