MedFlight Radio

Calling all Nurses interested in MedFlight ---if you are a nurse and interested in critical care transport here at MedFlight, this is the podcast for you. Who would not enjoy caring for critical care patients in a back of a helicopter or MICU? Join Sally Betz, Brandon Carter, Jason Pierce and I (Steve Borghese) as we lay the foundation needed to be a serious candidate for a job here at MedFlight. We will learn from our panel their career background on how they got into critical care transport and their opinions on what they recommend doing to prepare yourself for a career in critical care transport. We also will give you some insight on our hiring and interview process. This is a must hear podcast if you have any interest at all in critical care transport.

The MedFlight Education Team heads over to Grant Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio) to discuss all things related to cardiac STEMI. We are proud to host on this MedFlight radio podcast Doctor Tejas Mehta, Cardiac Interventionists with 18 years of cardiac experience, and Kathy Taylor, STEMI Coordinator/Cardiac Outcomes Manager, at Grant Medical Center. Our discussion starts with a few great STEMI case reviews with images where processes and protocols worked like clockwork and the patients had great outcomes. The discussions leads us into the best practice for pre-hospital and MedFlight Personnel which includes 12 lead EKG (especially borderline ones which include Left BBB), MONA, vasopressor agent and cardiac assist devices. We then finish up with the latest and greatest preventive things we can all do to try to decrease our chances of ending up on the Cath lab table ourselves. Come listen and learn from our cardiac specialists at Grant Medical Center.

Calling all Paramedics ---if you are a paramedic and are interested in critical care transport here at MedFlight, this is the podcast for you.

Who would not enjoy a helicopter or an MICU truck equipped to take ventilators, Balloon Pumps, and Impella Devices (just to name a few things) as your prime vehicle for transport?

Jason Pierce and I from the MedFlight Education Department sit down with Steve Cook and Scott Gano and lay the foundation needed to be a serious candidate for a job here at MedFlight. From a fire department paramedic and a county run EMS Medic—we will learn their career background on how they got into critical care transport and their opinions on what they recommend doing to prepare yourself for a career in critical care medicine.

We also will give you some insight on our hiring and interview process. This is a must hear podcast if you have any interest at all in critical care transport. You might even laugh a little as most of us in this podcast have been around for a while.

MedFlight Radio is at The Ohio State University Medical Center talking Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with Dr. Shraddha Mainali.

In this episode we review a case study, along with all the information you will need and more on recognition and management of TBI patients.

Dr Mainali is a Neurologist at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. She specializes in taking care of patients with stroke and other severely ill patients with Neurological conditions in the Neuro ICU, including traumatic brain injury, brain hemorrhage, brain and spine infection, brain tumor, spinal cord injury, seizures and coma etc.

Dr Mainali joined The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor of Neurology in August 2016. Dr Mainali is currently the Director of Neurovascular Ultrasound Lab at the Ohio State University, She is also the medical director of Stroke at Springfield regional medical Center-an affiliate hospital in Springfield OH. She is a research scientist with primary research interest in stroke and TBI. She is currently leading 2 NIH funded TBI trials at the Ohio State University and is the OSU CO-PI for SIREN (Strategies to Innovate Emergency Care Clinical Trials Network), a research network dedicate towards discovering new strategies to improve acute and emergent medical conditions.

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In this episode of MedFlight Radio, join Steve and Chris as they head to Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio to talk about pulmonary embolisms (PE). They are joined by Dr. Michael Jolly and Dr. Chris Huff, both with over 10 years experience in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. We will also hear from Sara Anderson, who is the Advanced Heart and Vascular Clinical Program Coordinator.

This 40 minute podcast starts off with a PE case that resulted in ECMO (picture below). From there we get questions answered about diagnosing, treatment, and what pre-hospital providers can look for in the field.

Pulmonary Angio - Pre

Right PA - Pre

Right PA - Post

Left PA - Pre

Left PA - Pre

Right and Left Pulmonary Artery Thrombus

Inari FlowTriever Thrombectomy Catheter

MedFlight Education Team is at it again with another podcast. This time we have involved Dr Brian Katz (Neuro Vascular Specialist) and Michelle Hill (Stroke Program Coordinator) at OhioHealth Riverside Hospital Stroke Program Team.

With their expertise we tackle all the tough questions related to Stroke and Stroke Care. We broke it up into two different podcast one focusing on non-hemorrhage stroke and specific treatment including TPA/vascular intervention and the second podcast digging deep into hemorrhagic stroke and specific treatment for those patients.

It is more neuro than one man/woman can stand, come listen and learn from the experts.

MedFlight Education Team is at it again with another podcast. This time we have involved Dr Brian Katz (Neuro Vascular Specialist) and Michelle Hill (Stroke Program Coordinator) at OhioHealth Riverside Hospital Stroke Program Team.

With their expertise we tackle all the tough questions related to Stroke and Stroke Care. We broke it up into two different podcast one focusing on non-hemorrhagic stroke and specific treatment including TPA/vascular intervention and the second podcast digging deep into hemorrhagic stroke and specific treatment for those patients.

It is more neuro than one man/woman can stand, come listen and learn from the experts.

In this Case Study episode, Steve interviews crew members who transported an ECMO patient from Fairfield Medical Center to OSU. Hear about their experience with this complex patient, and what they learned.

Dr. Dietrich sat down with Dr. Stoner from Nationwide Children's Hospital to discuss pediatric patients in DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis) and some of the challenges that may be encountered.

Stay Safe!!

This is Dr. Kincaid's first case study discussing a patient she treated that suffered a gunshot wound in the back.

Stay Safe!!