Inside EMS: Just Who Decides Those Clinical Standards Anyway?

And more importantly, why do we need their weekend-long merit badge courses to put the stamp of legitimacy on two years of EMS education?

Co-host Chris Cebollero and I discuss the latest EMS news and events, and debate whether clinical standards should be the sole province of one organization, and whether those card courses serve to advance EMS care, or merely to preserve a revenue stream for their organizations.

At the Guest Table, paramedic and field supervisor Jim Bonoyer of Escambia County EMS gives us the after-action report on a rather challenging MCI call at a local correctional facility.

Are you ready to triage 600 patients, when every one of them must be escorted by a corrections officer? How do you run an MCI of that magnitude, and still maintain prisoner security?

Listen to the podcast, and find out.

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