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Medic Mindset Podcast: A flight medic’s passion for free medical education

Tyler Christifulli shares his perspective on imminent cardiac arrest, surgical airways and how humming manages stress on calls

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In this episode of Medic Mindset, Ginger Locke interviews Tyler Christifulli. Christifulli is a flight medic, an EMS educator and an EMS podcast creator. He and Ginger share a passion for podcasting and free online access medical education (FOAMed).

In this episode, they discuss:

  • The three signs that indicate cardiac arrest is imminent.
  • What five medications Christifulli would want on his ambulance/helicopter if given a choice.
  • The other ABCs, which Christifulli says stands for “Always bear compassion.”
  • How paramedic school didn’t prepare him for intubation.
  • How humming helps manage stress on calls.
  • Christifulli’s first surgical airway.
  • FOAMed.
  • Christifulli’s mentors.
  • Why he’d rather use the term “field educator” instead of “field training officer.”

The Medic Mindset podcast is created and hosted by Ginger Locke, BA, NRP. As an associate professor of EMS Professions at Austin (TX) Community College, she has immersed herself in the art and science of how medics think and perform. In interviews with medics and subject-matter experts, she thoughtfully explores the inner-workings of the minds of medics. Prior to becoming a paramedic, she studied social psychology at the University of Georgia and the University of Leicester, UK. Her professional endeavors revolve around the conviction that the most important and complicated tool in EMS in the brain of the medic.

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