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• Reimagining Resuscitation - Episode 3: Reproducible results

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  Using the stretcher as a tool in heads-up CPR

• Taking your safety temperature

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  Learn how to put structure to your patient safety program while changing the culture and measuring progress

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  EtCO2 monitoring: You’re doing the right thing

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  Medtronic

  Amid protocol changes and airway/respiratory procedure modifications due to COVID-19, it’s comforting to know that when it comes to EtCO2 monitoring, you don’t need to change anything

• NAEMSP releases position statement on agitated patients

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  The statement addresses assessment, restraint, use of sedatives such as ketamine and law enforcement involvement when caring for an agitated patient

• Keep your cliches and lose the labels

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  5 patient communication strategies to improve response to interventions, increase patient satisfaction and outcomes, and decrease job-related stress

• Does Trendelenburg belong in the EMS toolkit?

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  Trendelenburg is taught to all EMS students, but does it still have a place in prehospital care?

• Prehospital care of the critically injured K-9

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  Law enforcement and SAR K-9s are public safety personnel who may require the emergency care of EMS providers

• 4 things to explain to patients to increase their comfort and compliance

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  Put yourself in the patient’s position to gain an understanding of how their fear may complicate your interventions

• Conn. EMS providers walk to patient after downed power lines block ambulance

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  EMS providers said they were forced to wheel a stretcher for a quarter-mile down the road after being told it wouldn't be cleared for another hour

• $300K awarded to family after death of patient who fell out of stretcher

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  The patient reportedly spilled out of the stretcher and struck their head while being loaded into an ambulance

• How to buy patient handling devices (eBook)

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  Download this EMS1 patient handling devices buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• PD investigating video that appears to show officer slapping patient being loaded into rig

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  Worcester Police Chief Steven M. Sargent said the video seems to show an officer using force on a patient in a stretcher after the patient allegedly spat at officers

• Remember 2 Things: Calculating the Glasgow Coma Score

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  Two tripping points that can be a challenge when evaluating impaired consciousness levels with the Glasgow Coma Score

• Man allegedly stole Chicago ambulance while medics were assisting patient

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  Police say the man got into the ambulance while paramedics were trying to load the patient into the back

• Rocky Mountain Pandemic: An inside look at how Eagle County, Colorado – home of Vail – has managed the COVID-19 pandemic

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  As the State of Colorado eases measures put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we take a look at how one community with an early outbreak took aggressive measures to contain the spread of the virus – and emerge stronger than ever.

• Remember 2 Things: Angry patient de-escalation tips

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  People get upset about their situation and tend to take it out on those of us in EMS. Here are a couple of tips on how to develop rapport with angry patients and de-escalate the patient's anger so you can do your job.

  This video, originally published on July 12, 2012, has been updated. 

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