All tagged EMS Education

Episode 111: Amy Eisenhauer on Leadership, Fatigue, and Use Disorders

Episode 111: Amy Eisenhauer on Leadership, Fatigue, and Use Disorders

Ed Bauter
FOAMed, Mental Health, Interview, Health and Safety

Summary

In this conversation, Amy Eisenhauer discusses the qualities of a good leader in EMS and the importance of mentoring. She emphasizes the need for leaders to care about their people and listen to their needs and goals. Amy also highlights the value of having a mentor and a board of directors to support and guide one's career. The conversation touches on the challenges of leadership in EMS, including the difficulty of balancing the demands of the job and taking care of oneself. The importance of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and work-life balance is emphasized. In this conversation, Amy Eisenhauer discusses the film 'Bringing Out the Dead' and its impact on the EMS community. She also talks about substance use disorder among firefighters and the need for leadership to address mental health issues. The conversation highlights the importance of education, support, and a culture of compassion in EMS. The hosts emphasize the need for effective leadership and the development of leadership skills at all levels of EMS. They also discuss the challenges of high turnover and the importance of investing in the well-being of EMS professionals.

Episode 104: Dan Gerard and Whole Blood

Episode 104: Dan Gerard and Whole Blood

Ed Bauter
FOAMed, Interview, Trauma

Dan Gerard is the president of the International Association of EMS Chiefs, who authored a position statement in August of 2023 supporting the use of whole blood as the standard of care for hemorrhagic injury. IAEMSC joins a growing list of national and international organizations that support this change. In this interview, Ed and Dan talk to Dan Gerard who explains the rationale behind the position statement and the change they hope to make with the position statement.

IAMESC Paper can be read here

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This episode was recorded on October 30, 2023.

Episode 86: Hilary Gates and the future of EMS education

Episode 86: Hilary Gates and the future of EMS education

Ed Bauter

Hilary gates is a real life educator at American University who happened to join EMS and fall in love with it. The program she works with, Prodigy EMS, is at the forefront of EMS education. As we move forward out of our collective nightmare that has been the past two years, Ed and Anna discuss how EMS education can grow from here. Hilary speaks with focus and passion about expanding the role of EMTs and medics moving forward and what we can do as educators and providers in the classroom to take the lessons from the past two years and implement them to make systems better for their patients. #FOAMED #FOAMEMS.

Episode 81: Staying Cool When the Heat is On with Dr. Mike Lauria

Episode 81: Staying Cool When the Heat is On with Dr. Mike Lauria

Daniel Schwester
Interview

If you were at the National Association of EMS Physicians Conference this past week, you would have been able to see Dr. Michael Lauria speak. Mike is a USAF veteran, Pararescueman, flight paramedic, and currently an emergency medicine physician in the US. He has appeared on the EMCrit podcast and numerous others to talk about stress and managing it in the field of medicine.

Dan got to sit with him and discuss how keeping cool on scene in stressful situations actually is better for you and your patients, some simple techniques to use, and why we need to incorporate stress inoculation into all our EMS training.

The stuff we talked about is proven to help you think more clearly and function better when things are going into the weeds....it's definitely worth the time!

Episode 70: Pediatric Cardiac Arrest and Improving Outcomes with Dr. Peter Antevy

Episode 70: Pediatric Cardiac Arrest and Improving Outcomes with Dr. Peter Antevy

Daniel Schwester
Conference, FOAMed, Interview

For most places in EMS, how we treat cardiac arrests in adults is drastically different than how we do it in pediatric patients. And the results show it.

Ed and Dan sit down with Dr. Peter Antevy and talk about how we can do better with pediatric arrests. Dr. Antevy’s programs in Florida have dramatically improved their pediatric survival from cardiac arrest, by focusing on the basics, staying on scene to resuscitate before moving to the hospital, and by engaging parents with WHY we are doing what we do on scene.

This is a critically important topic that we don't talk about. But we need to prepare for these low-frequency, high-stress events to give out patients every possible chance to survive.

On another note, go to https://www.prodigyems.com/refresh2021 to see the talk that inspired this episode. This is some of the best paramedic level training out there today, and it’s NREMT approved, and FREE!

Check out Dr. Antevy’s stuff at:

https://www.handtevy.com

Early epinephrine administration improving outcomes:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/JAHA.119.014330

We talk about the AHA PALS guidelines for 2020, here they are:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000901

The Polk County study on pediatric OHCA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30412719/

Time on scene in pediatric arrest matters:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.023821


Episode 50: LIVE from Atlantic City! EMS and New Media: Change is HERE!

Episode 50: LIVE from Atlantic City! EMS and New Media: Change is HERE!

Daniel Schwester
Conference, FOAMed, LIVE

The gang went on the road to the National Conference on EMS to do a live-recorded episode discussing how new media is changing medical and EMS education.

Why do we continue to use things we’ve used for centuries? What is new media, and what can it bring to you and your students? How have the Internet, blogging, and podcasting made some of our techniques obsolete? And how do we move forward fearlessly to improve education for our profession? We get into it in front of a live audience!

There are a LOT of shout-outs and FOAMed colleagues that we credit in this episode, and we hope that you check out their blogs, sites, and podcasts as well!