How to Build Procedural Skills - That Actually Stick
How to Fail Better in EMS: A Framework for Growth
The Call Nobody Trained You For — Jim Schmidt on Domestic Violence Recognition
Great Mentors Shape Better Clinicians
Frozen Fingers, Time Is Tissue: The Prehospital Approach to Frostbite
Suction First: Dr. DuCanto on the SALAD Technique for the Contaminated Airway and What Comes Next
Wired to Fail: The Science of Human Error in EMS
Dump Kits and Checklists: Why Expert Paramedics Still Crash
Feeling Behind the Curve? Understanding the EMS Power Curve Will Help You Stay Ahead
Stupidity in EMS: The causes and remedies
Anaphylaxis + Asthma: When Standard Anaphylaxis Treatment May Not Be Enough (AMAX4 Explained)
The Habit Loop: How Master EMS Clinicians Build Unconscious Competence Through Habits
Hypothermia Rescue: Cardiac Arrest in a Tree Well
When The Anatomy Is Gone: Facial Trauma Airway Management
Stop Building Resilience, Strengthen Your Resistance
What If They Find Out I'm A Fraud? - Imposter Syndrome in EMS
Why Those With Addiction Don't "Just Change" - Opioid Crisis Reality for EMS
When to Act: Mastering Vasopressors in 2025
The 5 Levels of EMS Mental Breakdown & How to Escape Them
Following Evidence or Following the Crowd? The Truth About Evidence-Based Medicine with Dr. Eddy Lang
Toxidromes Demystified
Rescue Breaths: Demystifying the Physiology of Safe and Effective BVM Ventilation
Prehospital Blood, Trauma Arrest, Hypertension in Pregnancy, and Diltiazem in Afib with RVR
Unlocking the Hidden Keys to Calm Under Chaos: How Simple Tools Like A Checklist Can Elevate Your Care
EXCITING NEWS! FIND OUT WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.
Engineering Simplicity in Crisis: Mastering Airway Management Through Systematic Approaches With Dr. Rich Levitan
The Cost of Saving Lives: Complications Arising from Pre-Hospital Tourniquet Use
Why Two Paramedics Watched Their Trainer Nearly Kill a Patient (And Said Nothing): How Lessons From The Aviation Industry Could Have Prevented It
The Art of Managing Agitated Patients
Upper GI Bleed: Rescue Strategies From Recognition to Stabilization
These Conversations Aren't Black and White: DNR, Advanced Directives, and the Intersection with EMS
BONUS: Wise Guys from FAST24- Allen Wolfe and Michael Frakes On Where We Were, Where We're Going, and How We Get There.
Unlocking Practice Changing Insights: A Paramedics Guide to Reviewing the Medical Literature
How Equipment Design Can Save Lives: Why Your Bag Organization Matters More Than You Think
NEW NAME! The podcast gets a new name, find out what and why...
Unlocking Syncope: A Harbinger of Hidden Perils, Differentiating Benign from Life-Threatening Causes
Invisible Scars: The Battle for Mental Health in EMS - PATH4EMS
Wide Complex Tachycardia: Get Comfortable With Uncertainty
Trailer - Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles
From Novice to Navigator: Mastering the Art of EMS Field Training
The Difference Between Equal and Equitable Care
Life Over Limb: Field Amputation, Preparing for the Unthinkable
The Untold Impact of EMS on Organ Donation: Transforming Tragedy into Hope
Values-Driven Leadership Within A Just Culture- Chris Pfingsten from EMS 20/20
Are They Choking? Esophageal Foreign Body
10 Lessons From A Real Austere Rescue That Apply To You, No Matter Where You Work
Bonus: A Better BVM? How I Built This EMS Cast Style- A Crazy Story About an Emergency Nurses Invention and Battle to Save Lives and Prevent Harm.
The Critical Four Minutes: AMAX4 framework for Anaphylaxis
From Errors to Excellence: Master Your Medics Geoff Murphy on the role of mistakes in EMS education
Poisons of the Sea: Not Just a Coastal Problem
The Critically Sick Runner: Unraveling the Mystery at an Ultra-endurance Event with Dr. Whitney Barrett
EMCRITs Scott Weingart on How to Master the Resuscitation
Building Better Providers: Eric Bauer, Lessons from FlightBridgeED
Mushrooms: The Perils and Pleasures with Toxicologist Dr. Nik Matsler
Electrical Injuries and Lightning strikes
Stroke Care on the Streets, What Actually Matters? Bridging Research and Real-World EMS
The Critically Burned Patient Part 2- What You learned About Fluids Was Wrong, A Simpler Approach
The Critically Burned Patient - Part 1
Rethinking Priorities in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - Which Comes First Epi or Airway?
Toxic Alcohols: Hidden Danger in Everyday Products and an Everyday Call
Art of Laryngoscopy- The SALAD technique (Suction-Assisted Laryngoscopy and Airway Decontamination)
The Truth about Mechanical CPR Devices: What the Data Really Says
Neonatal Resuscitation: Conquering the Fear, Step By Step Guide For Emergency Providers
Crush Injury and Crush Syndrome- Is What You Learned Folklore?
Lessons From a Sage: Interview with Jim Barrick
Postpartum Hemorrhage- What To Do When the Bleeding Won't Stop
Delivering Nuchal Cords, Breech Presentations, Shoulder Dystocias- Field Obstetrics, What To Do When Things Go Sideways
Which is Better, Midazolam IV, IM or IN?
Non-Invasive Ventilation - Do You Understand the Physiology?
Can End Tidal CO2 Predict Mortality in Hemorrhagic Shock? Part 2 with Paramedic Courtney ”Coco” Wham
What Can End Tidal CO2 Tell Us About Hemorrhagic Shock? Part 1 with Trauma Surgeon Dr. Eric Campion
Recognizing Individual Differences: Personalized Approaches to Pain Management
Legendary Trauma Surgeon Dr. Gene Moore - how REBOA is changing trauma resuscitative care
Are you sure you're prepared for your next intubation? Dr. Stacey Trent Reviews the most up-to-date literature for intubation best practices.
Disasters Don't Just Involve Adults. Are You Prepared For a Pediatric Disaster? Get Prepared with Dr. Jeffery Upperman
It's Not Just Back Pain. Spinal Emergencies with Dr. Bo Burns.
Errors, Needs, and Communication in The Pediatric Trauma Call with Pediatric Surgeon Dr. David Bliss
Why ECMO in the Trauma patient?
A Better Way to Triage? New Trauma Guidelines from the American College of Surgeons
Is nitroglycerin dangerous in inferior STEMIs or were we mislead? Separating fact from fiction.
Do You Smell Something? Deadly Gases - Hydrogen Sulfide and Nerve Agent Poisonings
Cyanide Toxicity
The GCS Sucks! Why it’s a useless number and what we should use instead.
Bonus Episode: Serotonin Syndrome Q&A - how to recognize and treat serotonin syndrome Q&A with paramedic Will Barry and tox fellow Nik Matsler
Serotonin Syndrome - Dos and Don'ts, Toxicologist Dr. Nik Matsler dissects an actual case
Your Mental Health Matters - Let’s talk about it.
Should we be giving steroids in cardiac arrest? With pharmacist Lance Ray.
Dangers of Lights and Sirens plus more. 2023 NAEMSP recap.
The Harmful Side of Diabetic Medications, Do You Know What You're Looking For? - with emergency pharmacist Lance Ray
Mac 3 vs Mac 4 - Which blade should you use?
The Ideal Trauma Call: You Were Taught Wrong, Traumas Not Algorithmic.
The Sick Asthmatic- You're thinking about it wrong, this is so different from other causes of respiratory distress
What did you just take? Novel Drugs of Abuse with Dr. Matsler
Don't Miss Something Important, Your Physical Exam Matters
The Physiologically Difficulty Airway - Part 4: Right Ventricular Failure, This Ones Scary
Snake Bites
Deadly Cocaine Overdose, Do You Know The Antidote? They Didn't Teach Me This In Paramedic School.
The Physiologically Difficulty Airway - Part 3: Severe Metabolic Acidosis
The Physiologically Difficulty Airway - Part 2: Hypotension
Narrow Pulse Pressure as a Predictor of ED Thoracotomy in Trauma?
The Physiologically Difficult Airway - Part 1: Hypoxia
Does your radio work? In the middle of an MCI is too late to find out.
Don't Miss Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Your Run Report Matters More Than You Think
When the provider becomes the patient
You're Not Treating Seizures Correctly. Pharmacist Lance Ray on Why Dosing is so Important.
Dirty Epi drip - We Don't Call it Dirty For Nothin'
Digoxin Toxicity and Other Cardiac Glycosides with Dr. Rague
MCI - Don't Be Unprepared for the Unexpected
One of the Sickest Patients- Calcium Channel and Beta Blocker Overdose with Dr. Camarena-Michel.
Stuck Outside- Hypothermia with Dr. Martin Musi
Simple Approach to Caustic Ingestions
Why You Can't Oxygenate - A lot of ARDS and a little bit of COVID
Misdiagnosed- in-depth look at how problems with blood sugar gets missed
Making the call - tips on calling for medical direction
The WTF Approach to the Tracheostomy
Confusion Leads To Harm- Clear Communication Counts
The Critically Sick Kid
Penetrating Neck Wounds
Large Vessel Occlusions (LVO)
Toxidromes
Why We Started A Podcast