American Ambulance Association
APRIL 24, 2025
This content is for AAA members only. Please either Log In or Join! The post HHS Office of Civil Rights Enters Resolution Agreement with Healthcare Provider for HIPAA Cybersecurity Breach appeared first on American Ambulance Association.
Peter Canning
APRIL 22, 2025
“We need a lot more naloxone than ever before. Some people need 20 milligrams” I hear this or versions of it in many of the opioid task force meetings I attend around the state. No, I say. The research I have based on over 20,000 EMS run forms shows naloxone has remained effective over the years. Which is not to say some people arent getting 20 milligrams.
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EMDocs
APRIL 18, 2025
Authors: Lloyd Tannenbaum, MD (EM Attending Physician, APD, Geisinger Wyoming Valley, PA) // Reviewer: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Hello and welcome back to ECG Pointers, a series designed to make you more confident in your ECG interpretations. This week, we feature a post from Dr. Tannenbaums ECG Teaching Cases , a free ECG resource. Please check it out.
NAEMSP
APRIL 18, 2025
Author : Katie Stuart MD; Washington University Emergency Medicine Residency Editors : Sarah Fabiano MD, FACEP, FAAEM & Michael DeFilippo DO You are a second-year emergency medicine resident physician doing a ride along with a helicopter-based EMS (HEMS) agency. You are dispatched to the scene of a golf cart versus tree. The air crew successfully identifies a safe landing place near where the ambulance is staged.
EMergucate
APRIL 20, 2025
The following 66yr old man went to the GP for a health check up, the GP found him to be bradycardic and referred him to ED.
Critical Care Scenarios
APRIL 23, 2025
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JEMS
APRIL 22, 2025
A bad partnership can do more than hurt an organizations bottom line, it can put entire communities at risk.
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The Bottom Line
APRIL 23, 2025
Whats new in the Critical Care literature monthly updates
EMCrit Project
APRIL 24, 2025
Fall from standing with some pretty concerning symptoms of spinal cord injury. EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.
SSCOR
APRIL 24, 2025
Upper airway obstructions affect the trachea, pharynx, or larynx. While partial obstructions can be painful, complete obstructions can be life-threatening. Without treatment, they can quickly prove fatal.
JEMS
APRIL 18, 2025
TheMonongalia County Technical Education Center is considering eliminating the emergency medical services program.
FirstNet Authority
APRIL 23, 2025
Multi-Agency Response: FirstNet at U.S. Armys Redstone Arsenal Blog michelle.fordi Wed, 04/23/2025 - 12:29 By Charlotte Whitacre, Director of Government Engagement, FirstNet Authority Federal agencies can learn more about how FirstNet can benefit their operations by contacting GovernmentEngagement@FirstNet.gov.
The Bottom Line
APRIL 23, 2025
Whats new in the Critical Care literature monthly updates
NHCPS Save a Life
APRIL 19, 2025
You can earn your Basic Life Support (BLS) certification in as little as four hours, entirely online and at your own pace. Unlike traditional in-person courses that require scheduled class time and commuting, getting certified online is a flexible, convenient option that can better fit your busy schedule. The process is simple: enroll in the […] The post How Long Does It Take to Get A BLS Certification?
SSCOR
APRIL 19, 2025
Many medical situations require emergency suction. And when you have a patient with an obstructed airway, be it from sputum, blood, vomitus, or tissue, you had better have the suction handy, for there is no other way to return the airway to patency.
JEMS
APRIL 21, 2025
A player and coach on theUmpqua Community Collegesoftball team were killed Friday after the team's van was involved in head-on crash inCoos County, Ore., theOregon State Policereported.
Peter Canning
APRIL 18, 2025
The call is for a seizure. A 9-year-old boy with epilepsy falls off the couch and is observed seizing, with full tonic-clonic activity. His mom shouts for the boys older sister to call 911, and then she goes to her purse and takes out the medicine his doctor prescribed for him. She sticks the nozzle of the device in the boy’s nose and pushes the plunder.
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
APRIL 19, 2025
Reference: Kareemi et al Artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support in the emergency department: a scoping review.AEM April 2025. Date: April 15, 2025 Guest Skeptic:Dr. Kirsty Challen is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Case:It may be April, but as you sit in your departmental meeting with your emergency physician colleagues, you all note that the winter surge of patients hasnt stopped.
NHCPS Save a Life
APRIL 19, 2025
For healt hcare professionals, fast decision-making and knowledge of first aid can save lives. Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) are two essential certifications that prepare providers to respond to life-threatening emergencies. While both focus on evidence-based emergency care, they serve different patient age groups: PALS is for health care […] The post PALS vs ACLS appeared first on SaveaLife.com.
Emergency Medicine Cases
APRIL 21, 2025
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Zafar Qasim & Andrew Petrosoniak on whole blood transfusion in trauma, Justin Morgenstern on calcium pre-treatment to prevent diltiazem-induced hypotension, Kiran Rikhraj on dynamic LV outflow tract obstruction, Anand Swaminathan on resuscitative thoracotomy, Andrew Tagg on uterine casts, and Jesse McLaren on scale & proportionality in occlusion MI ECG interpretation.
JEMS
APRIL 23, 2025
Patients with major blood loss inFort Worthand surrounding communities no longer have to wait until they make it to a hospital to receive lifesaving transfusions.
Peter Canning
APRIL 24, 2025
I am proud to announce my latest book, The Friends and Family Guide to the Opioid Overdose Epidemic: Including How to Recognize and Treat an Overdose , will be published on August 26, 2025 by Johns Hopkins University Press. You can preorder at this link: Order Now Here’s the description from the publisher’s site: A practical and compassionate guide to understanding and addressing the opioid crisis.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
APRIL 21, 2025
Take a moment to appreciate the irony. We spend so much time learning a new language during medical training that it grants us access to an exclusive club. That language gets fine-tuned through more training and further specialization. At the same time, as we sit through standardized patient or observed structured clinical examinations, we are often evaluated and critiqued based on the clarity of the language we use to communicate with our patients.
Core EM
APRIL 23, 2025
Definition: Refractory Ventricular Arrhythmias Persistent ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) despite 3 shocks, appropriate CPR, vasopressors, and anti-arrhythmics. Epidemiology Refractory VF occurs in roughly 1025% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases. Linked with extremely poor outcomes: survival to discharge ~212%.
Emergency Medicine Cases
APRIL 22, 2025
In this ECG Cases blog Dr. Jesse McLaren guides us through 6 illustrative cases delving into overall impression in identifying occlusion MI. He discusses how using multiple OMI findings such as acute Q wave, subtle STE, reciprocal STD, hyperacute T waves, and reciprocal TWI to contribute to your overall impression, can double the sensitivity of STEMI criteria for acute coronary occlusion.
JEMS
APRIL 23, 2025
The relentless demands of the job often push self-care to the backburner.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 21, 2025
Written by Pendell Meyers An elderly patient experienced a week of shortness of breath on exertion, with acute worsening including near syncope and severe fatigue. She called EMS, who recorded this ECG on the way to the hospital: What do you think? On arrival at the Emergency Department, she appeared critically ill, and had severe hypotension but was alert and oriented and able to follow commands.
EMDocs
APRIL 23, 2025
Author: Chuck Pilcher, MD FACEP (Editor, Med Mal Insights) // Editors: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) and Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Heres another case from Medical Malpractice Insights Learning from Lawsuits , a monthly email newsletter for ED physicians. The goal of MMI-LFL is to improve patient safety, educate physicians, and reduce the cost and stress of medical malpractice lawsuits.
EMOttawa
APRIL 24, 2025
In part 1 of this 2-part series on medicolegal risk in Emergency Medicine, we looked at two legal cases, with a primary focus on civil litigation and college complaints. In this section, we focus on risk assessment, documentation, and advice from lawyers and CMPA experts, with some frequently asked questions to conclude. Check out part […] The post Law and Order: Navigating Medicolegal risk in Emergency Medicine Part 2 appeared first on EMOttawa Blog.
Peter Canning
APRIL 21, 2025
A mayor in California has proposed giving free fentanyl to his city’s homeless to kill them off. California mayor wants to give homeless people ‘all the fentanyl they want’: ‘Need to purge these people’ “Quite frankly, I wish that the president would give us a purge. Because we do need to purge these people,” Lancaster Mayor R.
JEMS
APRIL 22, 2025
The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday that 911 dispatchers and their government employers are not immune from liability under the states Enhanced 911 Act.
American Burn Association
APRIL 18, 2025
Categories Advocacy Burn News MAC Spotlight Media Member Services Member Spotlight Organization News Prevention Quality Care Research Return to News & Activities As Congress begins work on the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) budget, the American Burn Association (ABA) is encouraging lawmakers to increase funding for the Military Burn Research Program (MBRP) to $12 milliona $2 million increase over last years request.
First 10 EM
APRIL 21, 2025
I took a few months off. (Well, not so much off, but as stuck in other EBM rabbit holes.) I am sure some were happy for the empty inbox, but if you enjoy nerdy conversation about subpar medical research, this is your luck day. Yeah, I guess you could give calcium. Or you could just […] The post Research Roundup for April 2025 appeared first on First10EM.
EMDocs
APRIL 19, 2025
We always work hard, but we may not have time to read through a bunch of journals. Its time to learn smarter. Originally published at JournalFeed , a site that provides daily or weekly literature updates. Follow Dr. Clay Smith at @spoonfedEM , and sign up for email updates here. #1: New Sudbury Vertigo Risk Score Derivation Spoon Feed The Sudbury Vertigo Risk Score helps identify patients at risk for stroke, has remarkable sensitivity for serious neurologic pathology, but has yet to be validate
FirstNet Authority
APRIL 24, 2025
Redstone Arsenal: On Target with FirstNet joseph.rey@fir Thu, 04/24/2025 - 16:00 At Redstone Arsenal military base, secure lines of communication between federal partners are critical. Watch Operations Specialist Marcel Chevalier and Deputy Fire Chief Robert Simmons of Redstone Arsenal as they break down how FirstNet supports streamlined emergency communications on the military installation.
JEMS
APRIL 22, 2025
Learn about treatments for pepper spray exposure, potential severe reactions and key risk factors.
Paramedic Chiefs of Canada
APRIL 24, 2025
PCC Members, The 2025 PCC nominations and subsequent elections will take place via electronic means. Nominations for the below noted positions on the PCC Board of Directors will commence May 26, 2025. Please note that you must be a Tier 1 member in good standing to occupy a Board seat. Manitoba Saskatchewan Prince Edward Island Yukon Nova Scotia Atlantic regional seat (New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland) Prairies regional seat (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) Central regional s
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