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The “Pre-Clear” & Other Tricks to Reduce the Perishock Pause
March 7, 2014 | ACLS, aed, AHA, CCR, Emergency room, EMS, ems 2.0, ems education, EMS Topics, EMS training, hospital, Paramedic, paramedic education, Patient Management | Ckemtp | 3 Comments
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Push Hard. Push Fast. Don’t Stop. By now, every single healthcare person out there should know that in order to improve a victim of cardiac arrest’s chances of meaningful survival, chest compressions are where it’s at. Blood needs to keep circulating in order to keep a person’s heart and brain alive and functioning. High quality […]

Uh oh, is it that time again? EMS Recert Time Cometh…
November 20, 2009 | AHA, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, ems education, EMS Health & Safety, EMS Topics, EMS training, EMT, EMT-Intermediate, EMT-Paramedic Specialist, Iowa, Iowa EMS, Paramedic, paramedic education, Training & Development, wisconsin | Ckemtp | 5 Comments

I’ll betcha that a lot of you reading this are in the same boat that I am… Here’s the reminder! Yesterday I had the occasion to pull out all of my various certification cards and licenses, photocopy them, and turn them in to one of my departments for verification that I still had them. Much […]

Oh no you didn’t…
March 31, 2009 | AHA, Ambulance, Ambulance Driver, American Heart Association, ckemtp rants, Command & Leadership, edemse, EKG, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, ems 2.0, EMS ethics, EMS Humor, EMS Management, EMS rant, EMS Topics, EMT, Ethics, everyday ems ethics, funny, grumblemedics, inside the mind of a paramedic, Mission Lifeline, new perspective, Paramedic, Public relations, rant, STEMI, technology-communications-ems-topics | Ckemtp | 12 Comments

Really? Did you just?? Oh come on now… you don’t really think?? Seriously… Did you really just call me an “Ambulance Driver”? An Ambulance Driver? Oh come on… Four years of college level classes, hundreds upon hundreds of hours of continuing educations, a veritable alphabet soup of certification acronyms behind my name, and this nifty […]