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

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!

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!