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EMS on AIR is an education and entertainment podcast designed to keep healthcare providers safe, informed, and prepared. The EMS on AIR Podcast was originally launched in response to the COVID-19 p
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In this episode, we welcome Dr. Robert Dunne, who is the EMS Medical Director for the Detroit Fire Department, as well as the Detroit East Medical Control Authority. Dr. Dunne is here to describe why fire departments and EMS agencies should be prepared to treat patients with smoke inhalation injuries. Specifically, Dr. Dunne is here to put a spotlight on the toxic twins, cyanide (CN) and carbon monoxide (CO), which are two major contributors to the injury and death of smoke inhalation patients.
During this episode, Dr. Dunne will describe why fire departments and EMS agencies should be prepared to treat patients with smoke inhalation. In addition, doc will describe the impact of cyanide (CN) and carbon monoxide (CO) on the human body. Then, he will list and describe the assessment and treatment priorities for smoke inhalation injuries. Finally, Dr. Dunne will describe the benefits of hydroxocobalamin for patients with signs and symptoms of cyanide toxicity.
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In this episode, Dr. Mark Piehl and Dr. Peter Antevy discuss why EMS must adopt a more thoughtful approach to fluid resuscitation for critically ill or injured patients. Specifically, patients in shock. It turns out that EMS needs to take a more of a proactive approach to recognizing the need for and administering fluids for certain patients. Dr. Piehl, and Dr. Antevy are here to put a spotlight on the value of fluid resuscitation in the pre-hospital setting, walk us through the data, and discuss the how EMS can provide the right amount of fluid in the right amount of time to make a big impact for our patients.
Dr. Peter Antevy is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician, as well as an EMS Medical Director for several fire-based EMS agencies in South Florida. Dr. Mark Piehl is a Pediatric Intensivist at WakeMed Health & Hospitals. He is also the Assistant Medical Director for WakeMed Mobile Critical Care, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. On top of all that Dr. Piehl is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of 410 Medical, Inc. as well as the inventor of LifeFlow. LifeFlow is a device used to deliver rapid fluid boluses or blood transfusion for patients with signs of shock. Visit 410medical.com for more information about LifeFlow.
Click here for access studies and information that support the information expressed in this episode: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/152po79RnJcXI53-AlxRsoUKbH_ODnqDh?usp=sharing
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Geoff Lassers, Paramedic I/C, AAS. Host/Producer, EMS on AIR Podcast
Firefighter/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
EMS System Manager, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
Director of Sponsorships, GuardianCME.com
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During this episode, we welcome Nathan Stanaway, MS, NRP and Alina Capatina MSN, CCRN-K, CNL. These skilled process improvement professionals discuss the strengths and potential roadblocks of integrating a new app that supports EMS when they notify the hospital of an incoming STEMI patient. Nathan Stanaway is the Senior Manager of Mobile Care EMS, Critical Care Transport, and AHA Training Center at Baystate Health. Alina Capatina is the former STEMI Program Coordinator at Baystate and has since moved on to the Operations Excellence Department. In recent years, Alina and Nathan were directly involved in the implementation of e-Bridge into their system. Specifically, their focus was on maximizing care for STEMI patients being transported by EMS. For scale, Baystate Health is the biggest and busiest STEMI program in Massachusetts. They receive upwards of 400 STEMI patients per year from the field and from 10 sending facilities around the region. To them, the importance of EMS in STEMI care is obvious.
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Geoff Lassers, Paramedic I/C, AAS
Host/Producer, EMS on AIR Podcast
Firefighter/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
EMS System Manager, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
Director of Sponsorships, GuardianCME.com
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This episode is a preview of the interviews and discussions scheduled EMS on AIR Podcast Season 3. Below are links to information and references from this episode.
Visit GuardianCME.com for access to free CAPCE accredited EMS CE courses.
Visit https://general-devices.com/ for more info about e-Bridge.
Visit 410medical.com for more information about LifeFlow.
Visit CarterKits.org for more info about their sensory bags.
Article: Recommendations for Regional Stroke Destination Plans in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities from the Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conference. (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.033228)
Visit Stroke.org/stroke transportplans
Please keep emailing your questions, comments, feedback, and episode ideas to the EMS on AIR Podcast team by email at [email protected]
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Geoff Lassers, Paramedic I/C, AAS
Host/Producer, EMS on AIR Podcast
Firefighter/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
EMS System Manager, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
Director of Sponsorships, GuardianCME.com
[email protected]
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This episode is yet another COVID update from our resident experts Steve McGraw, D.O. and Dr. Russell Faust, MD, PhD. Steve and Russ are both considered experts in their respective fields and they’re back to give us a COVID-19 update, as well as answer recent questions we’ve received from the EMS and hospital communities. Most importantly, what they have to say is based in the latest scientific data and literature.
In this episode, our guests provide an update of the COVID-19 pandemic, variants, and vaccines for the EMS and ED communities. Our guests also discuss things to consider as we close out summer and enter a new school season.
Please keep emailing your questions, comments, feedback, and episode ideas to the EMS on AIR Podcast team by email at [email protected].
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Geoff Lassers, Paramedic I/C, AAS
Host/Producer, EMS on AIR Podcast
EMS System Manager, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
Director of Education, American CME
Firefighter/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
[email protected]
Steve McGraw, D.O.
Co-Medical Director, EMS on AIR Podcast
EMS Medical Director, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
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Russell Faust, MD, PhD
Co-Medical Director, EMS on AIR Podcast
Medical Director, Oakland County Health
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In this episode, we welcome Dr. Christian Martin-Gill, MD, MPH, who is here to provide us with his perspective regarding the development of stroke systems of care in the suburban environment. Doc is an ED physician with a deep background in a variety of EMS systems. Specifically, Dr. Martin-Gill serves as Chief of the Division of EMS, the EMS Fellowship Director, and is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has been a nationally registered paramedic for over 20 years and is also a certified Flight paramedic.
Doc was a co-author of the 2021 Recommendations for Regional Stroke Destination Plans in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities from the Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conference, which is the focus of today’s episode. This landmark consensus provides local and regional EMS agencies and stroke advisory committees with guiding principles and recommendations for how to integrate the elements of a stroke system of care in three key regional settings: urban, suburban, and rural settings. The consensus seeks to inform or update EMS about new models and systems of acute ischemic stroke care, especially mechanical thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion stroke, and how they affect their stroke systems of care.
To maximize the power of the recommendations, the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association produced a very cool and very useful website full of resources and information directly related to helping EMS develop and or fortify their stroke systems of care. I highly recommend you visit www.Stroke.org/stroketransportplans and use it to consider evolving the stroke system of care in your community.
Dr. Martin-Gill is here to help us appreciate what is at stake for stroke patients, as well as the nuances, advantages, and disadvantages of the suburban environment regarding EMS and stroke. Finally, Doc provides his recommendations regarding how EMS systems should use the contents of the consensus and the stroke.org/stroketransportplans website resources to improve their Stroke Systems of Care and strengthen their stroke chain of survival.
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Geoff Lassers, Paramedic I/C, AAS
Host, EMS on AIR Podcast
EMS System Manager, Oakland County Medical Control Authority (OCMCA)
FF/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
Director of Education, American CME
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Christian Martin-Gill, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Chief, Division of EMS
Program Director, EMS Fellowship
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In this episode, we welcome Dr. Christopher Richards MD, MS, FAEMS, FACEP to the show. Dr. Richards is an emergency medicine and EMS physician in the Division of EMS in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, as well as a member of the UC Stroke Team. He is the EMS medical director of several EMS agencies in southwest Ohio, as well as the UCHealth Mobile Stroke Unit. He collaborates nationally as a committee chair of the Prehospital Guidelines Consortium, an Advisory Board member of the American Stroke Association, and as a representative to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Brain Attack Coalition.
The doc is here to provide us with his perspective regarding the development of stroke systems of care in the urban environment. Doc is an ED physician with a deep background in a variety of EMS systems. Most recently, Doc was a co-author of the 2021 Recommendations for Regional Stroke Destination Plans in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities from the Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conference, which is the focus of today’s episode. This landmark consensus provides local and regional EMS agencies and stroke advisory committees with guiding principles and recommendations for how to integrate the elements of a stroke system of care in three key regional settings: urban, suburban, and rural settings. It also takes into account the differences in resources, hospital certifications, geography, and population density. Additionally, it seeks to inform or update EMS about new models and systems of acute ischemic stroke care, especially mechanical thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion stroke, and how they affect their stroke systems of care. You can find a link to the 2021 Recommendations for Regional Stroke Destination Plans in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities in the episode description.
To maximize the power of the recommendations, the AHA/ASA produced a very cool and very useful website full of resources and information directly related to helping EMS develop and or fortify their stroke systems of care. I highly recommend you visit www.Stroke.org/stroketransportplans and use it to consider evolving the stroke system of care in your community.
During this episode, Dr. Richards will help us appreciate what is at stake for stroke patients. From there, we dive into the meat of the discussion, which is a focus on the nuances, advantages, and disadvantages of the urban environment regarding EMS and stroke. Finally, Doc will give his recommendations regarding how EMS systems should use the contents of this paper to improve their Stroke Systems of Care and strengthen their stroke chain of survival.
Please keep emailing your questions, comments, feedback and episode ideas to the EMS on AIR Podcast team by email at [email protected]. Visit EMSonAIR.com for the latest information, podcast episodes and other details. Follow us on Instagram @EMSOnAIR.
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Geoff Lassers, Paramedic I/C, AAS
Host, EMS on AIR Podcast
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Christopher T. Richards, MD, MS, FAEMS, FACEP
Assistant Professor
Division of Emergency Medical Services
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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In this episode, Dr. Samantha Mishra and I introduce you to Dr.Kelly Levasseur, DO, MS, who is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Children’s Hospital of Michigan located in Detroit. Dr. Levasseur is a graduate of Michigan State University School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her pediatric residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
Throughout the pandemic many of us were under the impression that kids aren’t as negatively impacted by a COVID-19 infection as adults, especially the elderly and those with co-morbidities. Although this statement is truly in a very general sense, there’s still plenty to be concerned about and understand. Dr. Kelly and Dr. Sam help us appreciate what is at stake for children who are infected by COVID-19. Then, Dr. Levasseur lends her expertise to help EMS understand MIS-C, or multi-inflammatory syndrome in children, what it looks like and its relationship to COVD-19.
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Geoff Lassers, AAS, Paramedic I/C
Creator, host and producer, EMS on AIR Podcast
Firefighter/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
EMS System Manager, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
Director of Education, American CME
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Kelly Levasseur, DO, MS
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Quality Improvement sub-committee
Associate professor, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
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Samantha Mishra DO, MPH
EMS for Children Coordinator – State of Michigan
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Bureau of EMS, Trauma, and Preparedness
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Right now, stroke systems of care are being developed and/or fortified all over the world in order to connect the latest advancements in hospital stroke care directly to stroke victims through collaborative, data driven strategic planning and execution with EMS. In today’s episode, we welcome two new guests to discuss stroke, FAST-ED and data driven decisions. Jonathan R. Studnek PhD NRP, Deputy Director of Operations, Mecklenburg EMS Agency, and Patricia Dowbiggin, MPH EMT-P, Process Improvement Advisor, Mecklenburg EMS Agency, have been invited to the EMS on AIR podcast to discuss their stroke study and successful implementation of the FAST-ED stroke severity scale into their EMS agency, so that we can all gain knowledge from their lessons learned.
During this episode, our guests help us appreciate what is at stake for stroke patients. Then, they’ll describe why it’s important for EMS to evolve their ability to appreciate, recognize and respond to stroke patients. Finally, our guests discuss the importance of data driven decisions and publishing research for the field of knowledge.
Please keep emailing your questions, comments, feedback and episode ideas to the EMS on AIR Podcast team by email at [email protected].
Visit EMSonAIR.com for the latest information, podcast episodes and other details.
Follow us on Instagram @EMSOnAIR.
Contact the episode host or guests:
Geoff Lassers, AAS, Paramedic I/C
Creator, host and producer, EMS on AIR Podcast
Firefighter/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
EMS System Manager, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
Director of Education, American CME
[email protected]
Steve McGraw, D.O.
Co-Host and Co-Medical Director, EMS on AIR Podcast
EMS Medical Director, Oakland County Medical Control Authority
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Jonathan R. Studnek PhD NRP
Deputy Director of Operations, Mecklenburg EMS Agency
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Patricia Dowbiggin, MPH EMT-P
Process Improvement Advisor, Mecklenburg EMS Agency
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In today’s episode, we discuss tranexamic acid, or TXA. TXA is a medication that helps prevent the body from prematurely breaking down clots. It doesn’t make new clots. It protects existing clots as they are formed. TXA was originally developed for the treatment of hemophilia and to reduce bleeding in patients undergoing oral surgery. Eventually, it was shown to be an effective preoperative drug that minimizes the need for large amounts of whole blood during general surgery procedures. TXA is now being used by EMS to treat severely injured trauma patients in the field who have or are at risk for severe hemorrhage.
Starting June 2021, TXA will be added to the drug box on my rig, along with every other EMS rig in Michigan’s Southeast Region, which includes over a half dozen counties in the area. This new addition to the box will affect thousands of EMS units, paramedics, and hundreds of EMS agencies. If you are a paramedic in my area, I suggest you reach out to your EMS coordinator and find out if this change will impact your treatments. This change impacts the following protocols for Southeast Michigan EMS providers: 1) Shock and 2) Southeast Michigan Medication Exchange and Replacement Procedure. You can download these protocols at www.OCMCA.org/protocols. Or at the OCMCA EMS Protocols App, which you can download for free from Google Play or the Apple Store.
To assist us in this discussion, we welcome back Dr. Steve McGraw, DO who is an ED physician at Ascension Providence Hospitals in both Southfield and Novi, Michigan, as well as the EMS medical director of the Oakland County Medical Control Authority (OCMCA), which provides oversight to 50 EMS agencies.
We also welcome John Theut, MS, Paramedic, EMS-IC, the QA/QI Coordinator for the OCMCA right here in southeast Michigan.
Finally, we welcome our MCA neighbor Luke Bowen, MBA, Paramedic I/C to the show. Luke is the Operations Manager for the Macomb County Medical Control Authority, which is one county east of Oakland County, Michigan.
In today’s episode, our guests help us describe what TXA is and what it does. Then, they’ll list and describe the indications and contra-indications. After that, we’ll get into the dose, route and method of delivery for TXA. And finally, our guests will list and describe adverse reactions and side effects that may be witnessed by EMS after administration of TXA.
Please keep emailing your questions, comments, feedback and episode ideas to the EMS on AIR Podcast team by email at [email protected]. Visit EMSonAIR.com for the latest information, podcast episodes and other details. Follow us on Instagram @EMSOnAIR.
Contact the episode host or guests:
Geoff Lassers, AAS, Paramedic I/C
Host/producer, EMS on AIR Podcast
Firefighter/Paramedic, West Bloomfield Fire Department
EMS System Manager, OCMCA
Director of Education, American CME
[email protected]
Steve McGraw, D.O.
Co-Host, EMS on AIR Podcast
Co-Medical Director, EMS on AIR Podcast
EMS Medical Director, OCMCA
[email protected]
Luke Bowen, MBA, Paramedic I/C
Operations Manager, Macomb County Medical Control Authority
[email protected]
John Theut, MS, Paramedic, EMS-IC
QA/QI Coordinator, OCMCA
Shift Captain / EMS Coordinator, Ferndale Fire Department
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