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 ...
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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 ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Spinal Stabilization
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 ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Pediatric Fever
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?
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Patient Care Hand-Off
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.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Field Use of Social Mobile Technology for Emergency Services
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.
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Difficult Airway Management
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Difficult Airway Management: BLS through ALS, what’s the best? Airway management is the first and most critical objective in emergency patient care. We’ve found simple methods to rapidly identify and assess difficult airway conditions, new techniques to improve your odds of success, and novel ways to use the tools ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Social Media Policies and Marketing for Emergency Services
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Social Media and Emergency Services: Promoting and policing your service. While department social media feeds are becoming commonplace, few agencies are using social media tools to promote their organization effectively. What policies and guides to use to keep your social media use on target and out of hot ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Prehospital Intubation: To ET or Not ET?
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Prehospital Intubation: To ET or Not ET, that is the question. Do field-placed ET tubes improve patient outcomes? Should all cardiac arrest patients arrive at the hospital intubated? Exactly what airways qualify as BLS now? Should your airway choices change if the problem is medical illness or ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Difficult Student Behavior
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Do YOU have difficult students like this? Dealing with Difficult Student Behavior: Is the solution policies, parenting or perhaps something else? The Know-it-all. The Worrier. The Heckler. The Rambler. The Cheater. Is one rotten apple going to spoil your whole program? How can educators differentiate between difficult students and difficult ...
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