Caring for patients with severe traumatic injuries can be difficult enough but what do you do when your patient is very young, very old or very pregnant or very large?
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Education For The Next Generation of Responders: We CAN NOT Teach Like We Were Taught
Honor Your History, but Teach for the Future Welcome to the new year. If we’ve learned anything over the past year then we’re smarter than a year ago and way ahead of where we were ten years ago. Let’s start teaching like it. First We Taught Book Knowledge. Then We Taught Street Knowledge. We’re Beyond That Now.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: EMS Care for Pediatric Sepsis
These resources will show advanced EMS providers how to assess, treatment, and coordinate care for these very sickest children.
Read More »RescueDigest Reads: USFA Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiative
US Fire Administration Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiative WHY YOU NEED TO READ IT: Are you tasked with leadership, supervision or education of firefighters, police or EMS providers that operate motor vehicles. All hands up? Great, then this document is for you! READ ON:
Read More »The RescueDigest Podcast Episode 23: EMS Education Transition with Dan Limmer
Rom Duckworth speaks with Dan Limmer about What we need to know about the EMS education transition from old standards to new ones, how to experience providers get up to speed, the difference between a refresher and the transition, and the keys to teaching critical thinking to students.
Read More »Leadership Lessons: Are Your Leaders Acting like Parents or Substitute Teachers?
The chief emphasized that he didn't mean that all of his people were acting like children, although the look in his eye implied that maybe some were. I wasn't suggesting anything about the maturity of his people, but rather that parents don't stop being parents when their children grow up. In fact, this is exactly what I meant by helping agency leaders acting like parents rather than substitute teachers.
Read More »RescueDigest Reads: FICEMS The Federal Interagency Committee on EMS Strategic Plan
FICEMS WHY YOU NEED TO READ IT: The gears of FICEMS will no doubt grind slowly, but if your agency has any kind of EMS response component you’ll want to know which direction they’re turning. There aren’t any shockingly new ideas here, but it is a good breakdown of where EMS in the United States needs to be moving. WHAT ...
Read More »4+20+10 Things Your Department Social Media Policy Must Address
The biggest problem… With today’s social media use policies are the gigantic swaths of “gray area” that shroud some issues. Not only do statutes and regulations vary tremendously from state to state and workplace to workplace, but as social media case law develops it can be difficult to determine how key phrases such as “free speech”, “privacy protection”, and “on-the-job” ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Accelerating Performance in Education Programs
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Can a little GNOME help you at the last minute? Accelerating Performance in Education Programs: What can you do to “up your game” as an emergency service educator and ensure that your student come out both prepared for the test and ready for the street? Why is it ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Top Ten Resuscitation Headlines
Are the Headlines the whole story? We have to read more to find out! Top Ten Resuscitation Headlines : It’s no wonder that some services have more effective resuscitation programs than other similarly staffed, comparably funded organizations? We all read the “Headlines” of cardiac resuscitation. “Use the right medications.”, “Medications don’t matter.”, “Airway first!”, Don’t worry about the airway!” It ...
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