Education

Rom Duckworth speaks with Dave Statter about first due videos, the outsider perspective of the fire service, the echo chamber effect, the videos he won’t show, and the answer to the question “When Has THAT Ever Happened in the Fire Service?”

Everyone has their own way to write an article. Everyone has their own voice and individual style, and a way of adapting that style depending on what they want to write. In this article, I’m not going to speak to finding your voice or style , but I am going to share with you the method I use to craft ...

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 ...

Effective communication is a challenge that we face in every facet of emergency response. One of the most difficult challenges encountered by new educators and leaders looking to move “from buddy to boss” is building credibility and personal authority. Many of us work hard at it every day of our career and get it right most of the time, but ...

You’re smart. Make sure your goals are too! Do you make effective goal setting a habit or a luxury? On an emergency call, in station, or in your personal life have you set goals for yourself or others that seemed so clear when you set out, but somehow fell apart when you actually started work? Setting and accomplishing goals is ...

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 ...

RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. What have we been doing all these years? Spinal injuries cause an estimated 6,000 deaths and 5,000 new cases of quadriplegia each year. It’s no wonder that EMS providers have been taught, “Better to board them all than miss a single injury.” But universal spinal immobilization has its ...

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.

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.