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• Making the most of smartphone apps and features on the job

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  In this episode, our co-hosts discuss ICE, Medical ID and other engaging uses for smartphone apps in EMS

• All things stroke-related: Diagnosis, treatment and transportation

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  In this episode, our co-hosts discuss the different types of strokes providers will encounter, how to treat each, and stroke patient transport procedures

• Patient assessment includes checking for medical alerts

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  In this episode, our co-hosts discuss the importance of searching for a medical alert bracelet or tattoo when doing an initial patient assessment

• Buffalo Wild Wings inhalant response: Making on-scene resource decisions

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  Our co-hosts reflect on a recent emergency call to a Buffalo Wild Wings where a cleaning agent inhalant injured nine and killed one employee

• Inside EMS: The pervasiveness of social media and its effect on the industry

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  In this episode, our co-hosts discuss how the use of social media by EMS providers can lead to issues on the job, as well

• How can a mechanical CPR device fit into your EMS service?

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  Educate partners and update CPR protocols while considering how to deploy a mechanical CPR device in the field

• EMS Today 2019 Quick Take: A prehospital approach to refractory ventricular fibrillation

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  Exploring unique prehospital approaches to RVF treatment, including double sequential defibrillation, sympathetic blockade and ECMO

• Research Analysis: Using continuous feedback to drive cardiac arrest care improvements

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  There is no silver bullet for cardiac arrest care, just silver buckshot

• The flipped classroom: Capnography in use

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  The flipped classroom is an inquiry-based learning strategy designed to improve student engagement, discovery and outcomes

• 5 tips to provide safe and effective ventilation

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  Assign someone to monitor the patient’s airway visually and with capnography using these five tips

• Resuscitation education: What’s changed and what you need to know

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  The American Heart Association recently released a statement updating cardiac arrest resuscitation guidelines

• Prove It: Dual defibrillation of refractory ventricular fibrillation

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  What's the evidence that delivery of dual defibrillation improves survival outcomes for patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and fail to respond to conventional therapy?

• Prove It: Epinephrine may have a role during resuscitation from cardiac arrest

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  Measuring the time to epinephrine administration as a continuous variable shows time-dependent nature of epinephrine administration

• Cardiac arrest in accidental hypothermia: Work the patient or don't start resuscitation?

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  Follow the mantra "a patient isn't dead unless they are warm and dead" based on assessment findings and knowing resuscitation contraindications

• Prove It: Antiarrhythmics improve survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

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  Understand the findings of the amiodarone vs. lidocaine vs. plain saline (ALPS) trial and what those findings mean for EMS providers

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