Drs Hagahmed and Traynor are joined by Jeff Reim, a former paramedic and current Physician Assistant in the cardiac electrophysiology department at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, to discuss the approach to patients presenting with a wide complex tachycardia.

Drs. Hagahmed and Traynor review a case with paramedic Ed Walkos that resulted in Ed's first cricothyrotomy.

Drs. Mohamed Haghamed and Owen Traynor discuss the care of patients with narrow complex tachycardia.  EMs providers in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania can earn 1.0 hours of EMS CME after listening to this podcast.  Head over to emspractice.com to read more on this topic and to take the 5 question quiz. 

Doctors Hagahmed and Traynor announce that the emspractice.com website is up and running. Currently, 4 episodes of the podcast series can be found here. Each episode has 2 accompanying files. One is a computer-generated transcript of the episodes with time stamps so you can find something you are looking for in the episode. The second file contains supplementary material about the podcast episode. There is also a 5 question quiz about the episode. Pennsylvania EMS clinicians can earn PA EMS CME after listening to the podcast and scoring ≥ 80% on the quiz. You can retake the quiz if needed.

Dan Swayze, Vice President for Community Services at the UPMC Health Plan,  Christopher Matek, Chief of TriCommunity South EMS, and Owen Traynor discuss community paramedicine.

 “Emergency medical services (EMS) of the future will be community-based health management that is fully integrated with the overall health care system. It will have the ability to identify and modify illness and injury risks, provide acute illness and injury care and follow-up, and contribute to treatment of chronic conditions and community health monitoring. This new entity will be developed from redistribution of existing health care resources and will be integrated with other health care providers and public health and public safety agencies. It will improve community health and result in more appropriate use of acute health care resources. EMS will remain the public’s emergency medical safety net.” —EMS Agenda For The Future, NHTSA 1996

Join doctors Mohamed Haghamed, MD, Dave Zimmerman, Pharm D, and Owen Traynor, MD as they discuss the EMS care of the agitated patient and droperidol.  The PA ALS protocols 8001-Agitated Behavior/Psychiatric Disorders and 8002- Delirium With Agitated Behavior are reviewed as well.

I speak with Dr. Dan Patterson about Fatigue, Napping and EMS.  Dan is a nationally registered paramedic and Fellow of the Academy of EMS (FAEMS). He studies safety in emergency care settings with special emphasis on safety culture, fatigue, shift work, sleep health, teamwork, medical errors and adverse events, and clinician injury in the prehospital EMS setting.   You may find out more about Dr. Patterson here.

This is a podcast for EMS clinicians about Opioid Use Disorder. In the past few years, we've learned that opioid use disorder and opiate overdoses have become the number one cause of death in people under 50. Naloxone has been used in prehospital medicine for approximately 40 years. Although its use has saved many lives from an acute overdose, its administration alone is insufficient to help those with opioid use disorder move from use to recovery. 

 Dr. Julia D'Alo, MD, Joette Carroll, a recovery specialist, and Owen Traynor, MD, discuss how to be more helpful to those with an opioid use disorder.