Summary: This town wants a paramedic, yielding to ambulances, remembering 9/11 and we're going to take a look at the numbers of cardiology. If that's what you're looking for, you found it at the MedicCast. MedicCast Episode 300 (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/12Lead_sm.jpg)Good day and welcome to this week's episode of the MedicCast. Your host Jamie Davis the Podmedic would like to welcome all of you to the program this week. We have a lot of great stories coming up for you later on including three good EMS news items to look at and then we're going to follow that up with this week's tip of the week. The tip this week comes from an e-mail I got from a listener a while ago asking about an explanation on the importance of narrowing pulse pressure. It occurred to us that we need to go ahead and talk about all of the numbers that go into understanding cardiology: cardiac output, stroke volume, ejection fraction, mean arterial pressure. We will talk about that later on in the tip segment for this episode. Remember to follow up on all of the information here including the links to the news articles as well as the links and additional resources that are posted for each week's tip of the week. All of that can be found over at the MedicCast blog found at MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog). When you're over there you will find the link for the episode show notes toward the top of the page. Click that link and you can find all the episodes listed there. Scroll down and find the episode you're looking for and follow-up on those links there. We cover things here in very broad detail and it'll be your job to go and follow up on anything you hear here on the show and figure out exactly how to apply that based on your own scope of practice and your instructional and supervisory guidelines. If you want to get back in touch with me any other questions, comments, suggestions or maybe we need to make a correction about something said on the show. In any case, send those e-mails into us here at Podmedic@Mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com). We love to hear from each and everyone of you. We respond back to every e-mail received. We'll have more contact information later on in this episode so you can check that out later at the end of the show. EMS World Expo Coming Soon Before I get to the news, please remember the EMS World Expo coming up in New Orleans in October, 2012. I want to invite all of you to be there and we have a special promo code that will get you free admission to the exhibit hall. Visit EMSWorldExpo.com (http://emsworldexpo.com), register for an exhibit hall pass and use the promo code FP50 when you check out. You can come and see all the great stuff they've got to show there and also hang out and catch some of your favorite podcast episodes recorded live right there. I hope you can make the event though and that when you get there, you'll head over and make sure you come up and say "hi." (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. Town Wants Their Paramedic The first item in the news this week looks at a local article. I found this article from the Eastern Shore here of Maryland (http://www.stardem.com/news/local_news/article_09fceec4-faf4-11e1-aecf-001a4bcf887a.html), in Queen Anne's County. The county is talking with the town of Church Hill who wants to have their own paramedic stationed there in their fire department. They had a paramedic stationed there recently in a pilot program and they would like that made a full time position.
