We’re bad at notifying families what’s happening during a cardiac arrest event. We’re even worse on ourselves. The average person may see 3 or 4 dead people in their lives and EMS workers often see that many in a shift. The Overrun’s new team member Steph Leather, a national speaker on death notifications and a director of a clinical psychology practice takes us through the steps to make death notifications easier on ourselves and on families of our patients.
Dan Gerard is a man of many hats. He is the current President of the IAEMSC as well as the EMS Coordinator for Alameda county in California. He has spent his lengthy EMS career pursuing new advancements in pre-hospital medicine and is currently piloting a program in Alameda county that may be a game changer when it comes to recognizing and treating seizures in the field. Ceribell is a device that wraps around a patient’s head like a headband and produces real-time EEG tracings that can be interpreted by an EMS clinician with little to no training. The best part about this system is that it is already FDA approved an is being used in hospitals with encouraging results. Take a listen and let us know what you think!
Hilary gates is a real life educator at American University who happened to join EMS and fall in love with it. The program she works with, Prodigy EMS, is at the forefront of EMS education. As we move forward out of our collective nightmare that has been the past two years, Ed and Anna discuss how EMS education can grow from here. Hilary speaks with focus and passion about expanding the role of EMTs and medics moving forward and what we can do as educators and providers in the classroom to take the lessons from the past two years and implement them to make systems better for their patients. #FOAMED #FOAMEMS.