Paramedicine 101

One of the benefits of my software engineering job is access to a large corpus of journals through ScienceDirect . About once a month I pick...

I have stumbled upon these videos. They are hilarious. Please Excuse the language. Enjoy.

Over at 9-ECHO-1 is a post from which I stole the title of this post. We Never Looked . I do not think that it is important for the vital si...

You just received a dispatch to a working class neighborhood townhouse for a two year old vomiting. Great. Another BS call. "Why does a...

As a new member of Paramedicine 101, I'll be quick with the introductions: I'm an EMT-Paramedic in North Carolina and have been in E...

Here is a case where you need to think and act outside the traditional area of your education. A 68 year old female patient with osteoarthri...

You are a paramedic working for a large EMS service that runs EMT-B/EMT-P units. Your long time friend, Paul, works for the same agency, but...

Perception is Reality by Adam Thompson, EMT-P I often write about lessons in professionalism. The content of my ramblings is more often th...

If you've been following the Prehospital 12-Lead ECG blog for a while, you know that I'm advocate of using Sgarbossa's criteria ...

A recent study points out some of the problems with EMS (Emergency Medical Services) treatment in some places. Each medical director, or sta...