Jason Patton is a firefighter with 17 years of experience that discusses EMS and Firefighting misadventures on his Tiktok channel (@firedepartmentchronicles). Jason joins Ed, Jess, and Kevin to discuss how we can use social media to advance the message of EMS and improve the industry.
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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.
We had an amazing talk with Chief John Moon, (ret) of Pittsburgh EMS and Freedom House Ambulance, one of the first paramedics in the United States.
If you don’t know the story of Freedom House, you should. Before Seattle, Miami, and yes, even Squad 51, Freedom House was providing bleeding-edge care to the citizens of the Hill and greater Pittsburgh, in a world where they were not regarded as equals in emergency services or healthcare.
If you watch TikTok, and let’s be honest, you all do; you know The EMS Avenger from his short posts on evidence-based medicine and all around being a good egg as a clinician.
Dan got to sit down with him (aka: Jimmy Apple) and got to talk about social media in EMS, likes and dislikes, and the role of social media like TikTok in making clinicians better, not just passing time while posted!
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!