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… there’s a new column on EMS1. Top 10 Obsolete EMS Skills. Gather ’round the campfire, children, and let Uncle Kelly tell you how it was in the old days.

One very enjoyable part of this year’s LANREMT EMS Conference in my home state was the opportunity for several of the conference speakers to take a fishing charter with Captain Mike Ledet out of Cocodrie, LA. Mike’s a full-time deputy for Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Department and does all of their maritime and water rescue. He’s been a fishing guide in ...

In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I welcome autism educator Kimberly Stanford to the Guest Table. Kim is the mother of a son with Asperger’s and a mental health professional, and developer of an autism training course and EMS autism sensory kit. Give it a listen. Lots of interesting stuff there.

… co-host Chris Cebollero and I welcome Lenwood Brown III to the Guest Table on Inside EMS. Lenny’s a former graphic artist who found his calling as a firefighter EMT, and managed to combine both his loves in the cartoon Frequent Fliers. Check out the podcast, and be sure to check out Frequent Fliers on EMS1.

Go show some love to those caring professionals on the other side of the Emergency Department doors. EMS could learn a great deal from the nursing profession, if we’d simply listen. I love nurses. They provide the care, and make the hospital world go ’round. Nursing advocacy organizations, on the other hand, I’m not so fond of. And those organizations ...

In this week’s episode of Inside EMS, co-host Chris Cebollero and I discuss the latest EMS news and events, including the bill passed by the Kentucky House to extend Line of Duty Death (LODD) benefits to the families of EMS responders. In my opinion, every EMT who dies in the line of duty should be entitled to LODD benefits. Public, ...

Posted this on a Facebook thread, which I believe Tamara Keel calls, “pitching your best stuff at an away game.” The Maturation of an EMS Guru: “Who the hell is Kelly Grayson?” “You know, Kelly Grayson. Writes a blog, occasionally amusing, thinks his personal feces are not odorific.” “That Kelly Grayson guy can make some pretty good points now and ...

Luke 2: 7-14 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came ...

Check out this pediatrician on KevinMD. My baby fu is quite strong, too, but I’ll be adding this trick to my repertoire.

By way of my fellow Shooter Self Care faculty EMS Artifact, I discovered an article on EMS1 by my colleague Nicholas Miller on active shooter response. In it, Nick highlights the common elements of active shooter incidents: Active shooter incidents have taught us some sobering truths: Despite the advice to run, shoot, fight; there are little to no options for ...

Evil struck again yesterday. Some loser desperate for his own Wikipedia page shot a bunch of innocent students at Umpqua Community College yesterday, before being smoked (but not soon enough) by the local constabulary. I’m not going to editorialize. I will never mention the name of the shooter – or any mass shooter – publicly. I’m not going to profane ...

Okay, here’s the second Charlie’s Angels pose. Feast your eyes on the awesomeness: I’ve been stuck in 3rd place with $1,050 for three days now. Will no one  push me forward to $1,100 and beyond? Come on, my legion of flying monkeys! Team Ambulance Driver for the win! The KTKC 2015 Fundraising Challenge total stands at $18,904 as of 1639 ...

In less than 36 hours, we’ll be kicking off our 2015 Fundraising Challenge! In just 90 days of active fundraising from 2011-2014, we’ve raised over $60k for cancer research, and your dollars last year went to seed money for yet more research. Over 86% of funds donated to KTKC in 2014 went directly to cancer research. Twenty-four teams are participating ...

Norman McSwain has died. Few people have had as big an influence on trauma care, and few physicians have been as passionate advocates for EMS as Norm. You put your stamp on EMS and trauma around the world, Doc. Our profession will miss you greatly.

Looking for a place to exercise the dogs the other day, my sweetheart and I wandered upon the old sawmill town of Fullerton, just a few miles from the house. Louisiana, and this area in particular, is full of old, abandoned mill towns like this one. Fullerton cut its last log in 1927, and the town died soon thereafter, but ...