*ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR LOCAL PROTOCOLS* A place for EMS related #FOAMed#FOAMEMS A share page of what is out there, Possibly newly created education if I get time.
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#TeachingCaseTuesday 🤓🥼
📟You’re called to the ED to interpret an abnormal ECG.
Patient is a 70 y/o 👩🏻 brought by 🚑 after found minimally responsive at home. She was well a few hours prior. History significant for afib and MVR on warfarin.
What dx test would you order?
Did you know fewer than 5% of shoulder dislocations are posterior? And that they can be caused by a grand mal seizure?? Dr Paul Donovan dropping lots of pearls of wisdom. #FocusOnEMS2019
If you use #FOAM, #FOAMed or #FOAMems to stay current on clinical thinking and ideas, we'd like your input. (5 questions, 2 minutes!) https://t.co/eeXe7p63hZ
Reviewing material for the 14th ed of Emergency Care #EMT book. New section “The Realities of Well-being” is designed to replace the former head-in-the-sand approach to safety in #EMS#thinking@BradyBooks
Vacancy: Our Education Advisory Committee has a vacancy for a member who has specialist clinical knowledge https://t.co/PeC6G5AKkX #DevelopingTheProfession
We’ve become so enamored with the routine and what we’re comfortable with (BiPAP) that we’ve forgotten CPAP is likely a better strategy for cardiogenic pulmonary edema. @Rick_Pescatore lays out why here. High dose NTG + CPAP FTW!
SADS - Sudden Ambulance Death Syndrome - critically ill patients who deteriorate quickly in the back of or on the way to the ambulance. Stabilize. Your. Patient. On. Scene. Before. You. Move. Them. #TxNAEMSP19@veervithalaniMD