Summary: Moving all fire departments to volunteers, improving your intubation success rates, risks for older asthma patients, and we’ll look at another EMS 10 Innovator Awardee with Chief Wayne Zygowicz and his initiative to improve awareness for our EMS brethren at risk for suicide. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it, right here on this week’s episode of the MedicCast.<br> <a href="http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PC-border-cmyk.jpg"></a>The MedicCast is a proud member of the <a title="ProMed Network site" href="http://promednetwork.com/" target="_blank">ProMed Podcast Network</a>.<br> This episode is sponsored in part by the <a href="http://physio-control.com" target="_blank">Physio-Control Corporation</a> and by <a title="Med Math Book" href="http://medmathsimplified.com" target="_blank">Med Math Simplified</a>. Check out the new book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on <a title="Amazon Med Math Simplified link" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=med%20math%20simplified&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=med%20mat%2Caps%2C169&tag=themediccastp-20&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&linkId=PEOAZ4JTRW3TJGOA">Amazon.com</a>.<br> MedicCast Episode 443<br> 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 including a look at one city’s initiative to get more funding for EMS by switching it’s paid fire department to volunteer status. That’s riling up some fire departments out there but it makes some sense to me.<br> Then in this week’s tip segment from EMS Today 2015, I have a segment from our EMS 10 Innovator awards with Chief Wayne Zygowicz from Littleton, Colorado. Wayne has researched and written extensively on the topic of EMS and Fire personnel suicides and how they can be prevented. Can you do more to recognize the warning signs in your colleagues? We’ll find out how you can do that later in the show after the news.<br> Contact the MedicCast<br> If you want to get back in touch with me, make sure you do so. You can email me at <a title="email link" href="mailto:podmedic@mac.com">podmedic@mac.com</a>. Also, if you’re an android user or iPhone or iPad owner, check out the brand new free MedicCast App. Get the <a title="MedicCast Android App" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.mediccast.android.mc" rel="nofollow">free MedicCast app from the Google play store</a>. Get the <a title="iOS App for the MedicCast" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id645668811?mt=8" rel="nofollow">free MedicCast EMS app for iOS</a>.<br> —————————-<br> EMS News<br> <a href="http://www.ems1.com/ems-advocacy/articles/2197082-Mich-EMTs-to-get-higher-wage-as-fire-dept-switches-from-paid-to-volunteer/">Switching Fire Departments to Volunteer, Paying EMS More</a><br> <a href="http://www.emergency-live.com/en/health-and-safety/10-steps-for-smarter-intubation/">Tips for Improving Your EMS Intubation Success</a><br> <a href="http://consumer.healthday.com/senior-citizen-information-31/misc-aging-news-10/asthma-treatments-fail-older-patients-more-often-study-700278.html">Older Patients More At Risk From Asthma Meds</a><br> —-<br> Tip of the Week: EMS Suicide Awareness with Wayne Zygowicz<br> <a href="http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/EMS10_Zygowicz_Screenshot.png"></a>This year Chief Wayne Zygowicz, from Littleton, Colorado was recognized with an EMS 10 Innovator Award. He got the award for his significant research, training and writing on EMS provider suicide in EMS and the fire service. We all need to expose and educate our fellow providers to the signs and symptoms of depression in patients and as well as our colleagues.
