Trending Topics
KellyGrayson-4.jpg

Kelly Grayson, AGS, NRP, CCP

The Ambulance Driver’s Perspective

Kelly Grayson, AGS, NRP, CCP, has been a critical care paramedic and EMS educator for over 30 years. Kelly is a passionate EMS advocate and a frequent regional and national EMS conference speaker, podcaster, and contributing author to several EMS textbooks. He is the author of the bestselling “Life, Death and Everything In Between,” trilogy of EMS memoirs, the editor of the “Perspectives” emergency medicine and public safety anthologies, and many short stories and fiction novels. He lives in the North Country of New York where his patients constantly ask him about his Louisiana accent.

LATEST ARTICLES
Reverse the process that’s causing the system to fail and fill your openings with the right people, not just the available ones
As a medic you are a caregiver and a human body mechanic, not a parts replacer; educate yourself like one
Reflecting on how far EMS has come in 50 years
How to use the lost art of auscultatory percussion to evaluate suspected long bone fractures
The EMS crew was about to administer epinephrine, “only they hadn’t noticed what I had; the patient’s heart rate was 268”
Mitigate NIBP and auscultating innacuracies by watching the plethysmography waveform on your pulse oximeter and noting the mean arterial pressure
Check out these festive songs with an EMS twist
Whether it’s navigating a pediatric resuscitation or to the ED entrance that’s blocks away from a hospital’s posted address, these apps should be on every EMT’s smartphone
The real role of EMS should be to train ourselves out of a job
The next time you encounter a patient for which your clinical impression is “excited delirium,” remember that the treatment you render isn’t to treat the delirium