Book excerpt – 'Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response'

Book excerpt – 'Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response'

Is your audience engaged or throwing tomatoes?

Is your audience engaged or throwing tomatoes?

‘You can't outwork bad leadership’

‘You can't outwork bad leadership’

More than 500 EMS courses and videos totaling over 440 continuing edcuation hours!

More than 500 EMS courses and videos totaling over 440 continuing edcuation hours!

Takeaways from the ‘most-watched cardiac arrest in the history of humankind’

Takeaways from the ‘most-watched cardiac arrest in the history of humankind’

6 threats to a rewarding retirement after a career in EMS

6 threats to a rewarding retirement after a career in EMS

Understanding Ozempic

Understanding Ozempic

STEMI vs. OMI/NOMI

STEMI vs. OMI/NOMI

Preventing in-custody deaths

Preventing in-custody deaths

Finding new solutions to old problems

Finding new solutions to old problems

Assume the best of your patients and prepare for the worst

Assume the best of your patients and prepare for the worst

How to make scene safety a core part of every EMS response

How to make scene safety a core part of every EMS response

Special Coverage: EMS Today 2017

Special Coverage: EMS Today 2017

Here's your complete coverage of the 2017 EMS Today conference, February 23-25 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit this page for updated show and vendor coverage. And if you are attending, visit EMS1 at booth #1723 and pick up some cool swag.

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10 reasons to attend EMS conferences
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The long-term benefits of conference attendance; and why it's especially important for volunteer EMS providers
How community paramedics use point-of-care devices
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Handheld, portable blood analyzers used by community paramedics to assess heart failure patients and make prehospital care decisions
Sponsored content

Home defibrillation: A new solution shifts the paradigm
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Avive Solutions Inc.

The small, lightweight Avive Connect AED is part of a new approach to improving cardiac arrest survival
Diverse EMS workforce is good for business
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EMS chief explains Allina Health EMS business case for increasing workforce diversity to improve patient care and the organization's ROI
Why social networks are crucial for the care of high EMS utilizers
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EMS providers can "Identify-Report-Refer" to help improve a patient's health through strengthening the patient's social connections
Crush syndrome assessment, treatment for EMS providers
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Types of crush syndrome, including traumatic asphyxiation and suspension trauma, described by Bryan Bledsoe in EMS Today presentation
How community paramedics can respond to the opioid overdose epidemic
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Community paramedics have an opportunity to change EMS response to overdose and addiction through application of harm reduction techniques
6 important PPE items paramedics should be wearing, but aren't
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We owe it to ourselves and our families to understand and use the PPE designed to protect us from line of duty injury or death
10 best PowerPoint alternatives for EMS educators
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Before changing presentation software, first change how you think about teaching EMT and paramedic students
10 tips to get the most from an EMS conference exhibit hall
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Be prepared and intentional engaging with vendors to learn more about new products for your EMS agency
5 tips for getting media coverage at EMS trade shows
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Trade shows bring together industry reporters from across the nation, and a few simple tricks can help get your company or product noticed

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