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Elevated temperatures in pediatric patients are some of the most common, and often frustrating types of calls in EMS. Are the parents over-reacting? Are we under-reacting?

A critical safety and quality problem in the United States, patient care hand-off has been described as “The Bermuda Triangle of Healthcare”. Miscommunication is so common that it’s been found that ED staff members remember less than half of the information that EMS relays during verbal reports.

In this episode we see “The National Fire Academy: Not Just Fire Anymore” as we talk with Michael Stern, EMS Training Specialist for the National Fire Academy.

The explosion of social media and mobile phone and tablet technology is changing our world. Emergency service organizations large and small are using social media and mobile applications for both bread and butter operations and large-scale crises response.

Already the leading cause of disability in the US, shocking new information shows incidents of ischemic stroke increasing more than 50% in children from 5 to 14 years old since 1995.

Leading change from the top down or the bottom up can be one of the most difficult things that we can do in emergency services. Most of us would rather get toned out to the “Big One” than present a new idea to our group.

When educators develop and present programs, we don’t do it to display our PowerPoint skills or to show off the speaking tips we’ve gleaned from the latest TED talk. True educators build and deliver programs to inspire and enable their audiences to help move emergency services forward.

Rom Duckworth sits down with an expert panel to ask, “The evolving relationship between EMS and their destination healthcare systems: Where are we going?”.

Rom Duckworth sits down with Author and Educator Richard Beebe to ask, “When providing initial and ongoing Fire, EMS and Emergency Services Education: how much (and what kind of) planning does it take to do it right?”

So if you’re new educator, don’t try and steamroll over the senior people because they don’t already know all about student centered social mobile online whatchamacallit. And for senior educators and staff in police, fire, and EMS, please continue to bring your knowledge and experience into the classroom, even if you have to stretch a little to do it in new and unfamiliar ways.