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Inside EMS Podcast: Bringing mental health issues to the forefront of EMS

Our co-hosts discuss the week’s news and the benefits of an online EMS education

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In this Inside EMS Podcast episode, co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson talk about the benefits of an online EMS education. Kelly, who’s recently started teaching an online class, stated that online self-study is becoming the new evolution in EMS education.

They also discuss the week’s news, including a bill that recognizes PTSD as a work-related diagnosis to be voted on in Toronto, a PTSD Senate bill in South Carolina that’s being slowed down due to a minority report, a story out of Maine where a woman and her son survived after their SUV plunged off a bridge and a paramedic that’s raising money for SIDS awareness after his two-year-old son died in June 2012.

Chris and Kelly also point out a story about how Montgomery County Hospital District initiated a ketamine use clinical guideline in 2010 and how they’ve been collecting quality assurance data on the drug’s use for sedation, pain management and rapid sequence intubation.

The Inside EMS podcast is a regular expert discussion of hot topics, clinical issues, operational and leadership lessons for EMTs, paramedics and chiefs
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