Summary: Saving high school EMTs, collegiate EMS and alcohol consumption, insurance companies versus ambulance companies, and we're going to take a look at lidocaine as we continue our series on antiarrhythmic drugs. If that's what you're looking for you found it right here on the MedicCast. MedicCast Episode 302 Well good day and welcome to this week's episode of the MedicCast. I'm your host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic and I'd like welcome all of you to the program this week. We have some good stuff coming up for you. I'll look at EMS in the news this week plus a great tip of the week as we continue our series on medication administration and meds to review. Before getting to that, I do want to remind you of a couple of things. Head over to the MedicCast website over MedicCast.com/blog (http://mediccast.com/blog) and check out all of the additional resources that are available over there including the links to everything talked about in this and every other episode of the MedicCast. Right at the top of the page there's a shownotes link. Click the shownotes link and you can find all of the episode information there. 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 I welcome you to do that. We've heard from a lot of individuals over the last couple of weeks about recent episodes and I do respond to every e-mail that comes in so keep that contact coming in. You can send those e-mails into me here at Podmedic@Mac.com (mailto:podmedic@mac.com). I look forward to getting your e-mails, your comments, your questions, suggestions or maybe even corrections. If I've made a mistake we want to make sure we get the best information out there. I consider this a community effort folks and I look forward to all of your input here on the MedicCast. 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. Saving High School EMT Programs First up in the news this week, let's look at a great article I picked up from one of the local news sources in nearby Lebanon, Pennsylvania. The Elco high school there has one of the longest running, if not the longest-running high school EMT program in the country (http://www.ldnews.com/ci_21503374/paramedic-saves-lives-school-program?source=most_viewed). It's been going on for 31 years.
