Amiodarone Reviewed and Episode 301




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Summary: Copying Israeli EMS, med shortages and drug swapping, budgets and slower response times, and were going to pick up with a medication review of Amiodarone later on in this episode. If that's what you're looking for, you found it right here on the MedicCast. MedicCast Episode 301 (http://www.mediccast.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/EMSPocketGear_sm.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. We have a great show coming up for you here including some interesting news items from around the world as well as here in the U.S. We'll also look at the medication Amiodarone later on in a med review for the tip of the week. In the meantime I'll remind you to follow up on all of the additional resource information you will find in the show notes for this episode as well as the links for the news items. You can find all of that over MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog). When you get over there, you'll find the link for the show notes right at the top of the page. Go ahead and click that link and find everything you need to go deeper into the EMS info in this episode. Of course you can also find the video versions of the show in several places. If you have a Roku Box (http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=roku&linkCode=ur2&sprefix=roku%2Caps%2C694&tag=themediccastp-20&url=search-alias%3Daps)(https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=themediccastp-20&l=ur2&o=1), an Apple TV (http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=apple%20tv&linkCode=ur2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aapple%20tv&tag=themediccastp-20&url=search-alias%3Daps)(https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=themediccastp-20&l=ur2&o=1) box or something like that linking your TV to the internet, you can view the MedicCast right on your TV. You can also catch the video versions of each week's episode and the weekly short segments at MedicCast.tv (http://mediccast.tv). If you want to get back in touch with me send those e-mails or those comments and questions in to me here under the e-mail podmedic@mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com). I love to hear from each and every one of you and I hope you will continue to send in those e-mails and support the MedicCast community by letting me know what you want to hear and see more of in the future episodes. I know we have lots of students out there checking out the show including some classrooms that are playing the MedicCast videos while they're practicing skills and things like that. I really appreciate that. So a special shout out to all the students there checking out the show right now. EMS World Expo on the Way I want to remind you to check out the information on how you can get to EMS World Expo and get into the exhibit hall for free. If you live in New Orleans or somewhere down there, or you're thinking about heading down there I can get you into the exhibit hall show floor for free. You can get into the exhibits all three days for free using the promo code FP50. Use FP 50 when you checkout at EMSWorldExpo.com (http://emsworldexpo.com). (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. Copying Israeli EMS Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I have heard that many times and I guess that goes for EMS imitation as well. I have a great article here that is an interview with the Bulgarian health minister