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Life and Sirens — 82 episodes

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82 | SCENARIO | Stroke Signs You’re Missing: The Subtle Neuro Patient

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81 | CULTURE | Don't Worry, You'll stop freaking out soon

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80 | CLINICAL | Pain Management in 2026: Moving Beyond Fentanyl

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79 | SCENARIO | Altered Mental Status — Nothing Is What It Seems

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78 | TRUE CRIME: The Death Cap Lunch: A Family Meal, a Global Headline, and the Poison That Hides in Plain Sight

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77 | EMS1 COLLAB | Trauma-Informed EMS: The Shift That Could Change the Future of the Job

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76 | CULTURE | Hard Partners: Working With Someone You Don’t Click With

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75 | CLINICAL | Obscure and Unusual Poisons

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74 | CRASH OUT | Succinylcholine Who?

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73 | SCENARIO | Airway Obstruction: Recognition, Strategy, and Clinical Excellence”

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72 | TRUE CRIME | When Words Become Evidence

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71 | EMS1 COLLAB | “Do The Right Thing Isn’t A Slogan; It’s An Operating System.”

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70 | CULTURE | Uniforms & Identity: What Are We Really Wearing?

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69 | COLLAB | The Good Guy Wins Differently

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68 | TRUE CRIME | Dr. Death, Post Op Horror

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67 | CLINICAL | Dry vs Drowning– Managing Fluid-Depleted and Fluid-Overloaded Patients

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66 | VALENTINES DAY | Love Me, Love Me Not — The Realities of EMS

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65 | COLLAB | Riot Control Rx: EMS Assessment & Transport in Civil Unrest

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64 | CLINICAL | Sepsis in Pediatrics

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63 | CULTURE | Not Alone on the Scene: Co-Agency Response in EMS

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62 | EMS TRUE CRIME | The Murder of David Castor

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61 | CLINICAL | When to Say When: How to Know When to Pull the Trigger—and When to Ride It Out

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60 | CLINICAL | Bradycardia & Pacing — When Slow Becomes Dangerous

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59 | NEW YEARS EVE | If This Year Were a Shift: A Reflection

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58 | CULTURE | Stop Waiting for the Title: EMS Leadership Starts Now

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57 | CHRISTMAS EVE | The Night (Shift) Before Christmas: EMS Edition

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56 | CLINICAL | BiPAP vs CPAP: Siblings, Not Twins (Part 2)

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55 | CLINICAL | BiPAP vs CPAP: Siblings, Not Twins (Part 1)

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54 | CLINICAL | ETCO₂ — The Real Vital Sign of Resuscitation

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53 | CLINICAL | EMS Rituals — “Because We’ve Always Done It”

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52 | THANKSGIVING | Turkey, Trauma, and “So… What’s the Worst Call You’ve Ever Had?”

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51 | SCENARIO | “What Would You Do If…” — Real EMS Judgment Calls

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50 | CLINICAL | Managing the (Heart) Pump

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49 | CULTURE | Two Medics Walk Into a Call…

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48 | HALLOWEEN | Radio Report Listener Tales

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47 | COLLAB | Shay Montgomery & Tyler Morris

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46 | CLINICAL | Airway — The First Frontier (Part 2)

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45 | CLINICAL | Airway — The First Frontier (Part 1)

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44 | CULTURE | The Learning Curve No One Talks About

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43 | SCENARIO | Don’t Give Nitro If… and Other Lies We’ve Heard

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42 | SCENARIO | Deep Water: Understanding Fatal and Non-Fatal Drownings

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41 | SCENARIO | Minutes Matter: The Scene Time Balancing Act

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40 | SCENARIO | Flight Talk - Safety, Declines, and the Truth in the Sky

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39 | CLINICAL | RSI vs. DSI - Picking the Right Sequence

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38 | COLLAB | Roots and Response: with Austin Meador

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37 | CULTURE | Silent Cues and Shared Guts: The Intuition of EMS Teams

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36 | CLINICAL | Slow & Steady - Treatment of Bradycardia

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35 | COLLAB | FAST25 Recap: Education, Elevation, and EMS Energy

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34 | SCENARIO | Chart Review: Radio Report Listener Tales

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33 | SCENARIO | Would You Rather: EMS Edition

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32 | SCENARIO | Scene to Subpoena: Documenting Gunshot Wounds When It Matters Most

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31 | CLINICAL | Tachy but Stable?

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30 | COLLAB | Open Mic with YOU: Listener Q&A

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29 | CULTURE | Surviving Day One: What We Wish We Knew

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28 | SCENARIO | “What the Hell Is This?” – Rare but Real Field Diagnoses

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27 | CLINICAL | Fragile & Fatal—Geriatric Low Impact Trauma

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26 | CLINICAL | TXA & Blood - The Lifeline in Trauma Care

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25 | SCENARIO | Paper Trails & Pitfalls: Writing EMS Reports That Hold Up

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24 | CULTURE | So You Wanna Be A Flight Medic? Q&A

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23 | CULTURE | Radio Report Listener Tales— Haunting Listener Tales

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22 | CLINICAL | COPD vs. CHF: The Battle of Breath

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21 | VALENTINES DAY | The Heart of EMS— Crew Bonds & Emotional Intelligence

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20 | SCENARIO | Interfacility Rescue Missions

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19 | CULTURE | Reoccurring Nightmares - The Calls That Won’t Quit

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18 | CULTURE | The Sober Shift: Finding Purpose Without Alcohol

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17 | CLINICAL | Ketamine: The Emergency Multitool

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16 | CULTURE | “Wait Your Turn!” and Other Lies We Tell the Future of EMS

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15 | CLINICAL | Lets Chat, Sepsis

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14 | CULTURE | The Art of Communication

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13 | CULTURE | “Nice to Meet You, We’re Trying Not to Burn Out”

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12 | CLINICAL | Wait, That’s Anaphylaxis?!

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11 | CULTURE | It’s Not What You Think: EMS Misconceptions

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10 | CULTURE | New to the Crew: Preceptors, Students, & FTOs

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9 | CULTURE | You Didn’t Sign Up for This: Unexpected Realities in EMS

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8 | SCENARIO | Hard Lessons: Embracing Missteps to Improve EMS Practice

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7 | CLINICAL | Little Doses, Big Dangers: Pediatric Overdoses & Ingestions

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6 | HALLOWEEN | Witches Brew: Toxicology

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5 | SCENARIO | EMS & CPR: "Should You Stay or Should You Go?"

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4 | CULTURE | Confronting Moral Injury - "The Courage to Act"

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3 | CULTURE | Don’t Worry, You’ll Stop Freaking Out Soon

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2 | CULTURE | Leadership: Next to Me, Not In Front of Me

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1 | L&S | EMS with Sophie Fuller, Jaime Wesley, & Aubrey Lukis