Confessions of an EMS Newbie

If you're an EMS newbie, or if you know an EMS newbie, or you know someone who knows someone who is an EMS newbie, submit your essays to win an all-expenses-paid trip to EMS World Expo 2011 in Las Vegas!

It's Confessions of an EMS Newbie, the first podcast to break the story that there is a treasure map on the back of Barack Obama's birth certificate. Now if we can just get Benjamin Franklin Gates to steal it!

It's Confessions of an EMS Newbie, the podcast that comes with a different carabiner in every episode! Collect the whole set!

… Episode 42 is up at Confessions of an EMS Newbie. Ron and I talk all things thoracic, from pericardiocentesis to managing flail chest, and answer a few listener questions. Be sure to check out the EMS Expo essay contest page while you're there, and learn how you can win an all-expenses-paid trip to EMS World Expo in Las Vegas. ...

The contest runs from May 1 through June 1, and essays will be judged by a panel of celebrity EMS bloggers, educators and publishers. In addition to the trip to EMS World Expo, our first place winner also gets a 1-year subscription to EMS World magazine, and an appearance on one of the live Confessions of an EMS Newbie podcasts from the Promed Network podcast studio in Las Vegas.

… Episode 41 is up on Confessions of an EMS Newbie. Ron and I talk discuss protocol-directed torture spinal motion restriction, rural EMS, swift water rescue, and providing EMS at large events. We also answer a few reader questions, including hooking up a listener from Connecticut with a job lead. We also make our big announcement: Confessions of an EMS ...

… Episode 40 is up on Confessions of an EMS Newbie. Ron and I discuss copological indicators in hazmat emergencies, pucker factor in needle chest decompression, and the effectiveness of threatened nudity in getting your students to develop situational awareness. It's Confessions of an EMS Newbie, the only podcast listed as a flammable in the Emergency Response Guide, because we're ...

Ya'll give it a listen, and aside from the subject matter, hopefully you can clear one of my personal conundrums; does Greg Friese sound more like the classic stoned surfer dude, or Patrick the Starfish?

… Episode 39 is up on Confessions if an EMS Newbie. Ron and I talk head trauma, when a detailed assessment is appropriate and when it isn’t, and how to TICLS children properly. We answer a few listener questions, too. It’s Confessions of an EMS Newbie, the only podcast to consistently score less than 3 on the Glasgow Coma Scale. ...

Ron and I talk about burns and when it is appropriate the skip straight to the end of the Airway Continuum, uses for phentolamine.

… Episode 37 is up on Confessions of an EMS Newbie. Ron and I discuss crush injuries and rhabdomyolysis (including how to mispronounce it), emergency childbirth, and hydraulic injection injuries, and answer a few listener questions. It’s Confessions of an EMS Newbie. If Butterfly McQueen had listened to us, she wouldn’t have told Miss Scarlett she didn’t know nothin’ ’bout ...

… Episode 36 is up on Confessions of an EMS Newbie. Ron and I discuss the philosophical question, which kills you quicker, the arterial bleed or the compromised airway? We answer a few listener questions, discuss PASG, and offer a few non-traditional uses for the KED. It’s Confessions of an EMS Newbie, the only podcast known to cure cooties. Get ...

… Episode 35 is up at Confessions of an EMS Newbie. Ron and I wax philosophic about Trauma Center designations, the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Distraction* since 9/11, and we even say good things about air medical transport. It’s Confessions of an EMS Newbie, the only podcast proven to reverse the terminal boredom induced by ICS 100-800! * The ...

… Episode 34 is up on Confessions of an EMS Newbie. In the midst of a blizzard*, Ron and I discuss what makes a good medic, firearms fallacies found in EMS textbooks, and the science of wound ballistics. It’s Confessions of an EMS Newbie, and the title of this episode is “Blunt and Penetrating.” Heh, that’s us all right. *Blizzard, ...

… the Bob Page interview is up at Confessions of an EMS Newbie. Bob is one of the most talented and dynamic EMS educators out there. You should give it a listen.