Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles - Advanced Continuing Education for Paramedics, EMTs & Prehospital Care Providers

Have you ever asked an AI model how to treat DKA? It will tell you fluids and insulin. That answer is technically right, but misses a critical step that has to come first in order to prevent serious harm.

Ross is talking to emergency physician Dr. Jean-François Couture about what large language models do well, where they fall short in medicine, and how the inform...

Did you know a perfect first-pass intubation can still count as a failed airway? If your patient desaturates or drops their pressure minutes after the tube goes in, the attempt didn't succeed. Is anyone still watching their pressure, oxygenation, and sedation?

In this episode, Ross talks with Dr. Jim DuCanto about face mask ventilation, including how to hold the mask, ...

Your severe head injury patient is altered and hypertensive. Do they need fluid at all, and if so, which one? And in cardiac arrest, are you only restarting the heart, or is getting blood to the brain just as important?

Matt talks with Dr. Peter Antevy about why plasma may help rebuild the glycocalyx, the protective lining of blood vessels that sheds after trauma...

You just handed off a trauma patient everyone in the room knows won't survive. What happens to them after you leave? Where does their family get to say goodbye?

Will talks with Amie Lemire, Director of Hospice at UNC Health, about a program that...

A trauma patient is hypotensive. Is it hemorrhage? Tension pneumothorax? Cardiac injury? Neurogenic shock? In the first few minutes, the differential can get wide fast, but some causes need to stay at the very top of the list.

Recorded at UNC Chapel Hill’s May Day Trauma Conference, Will talks with emergency physician Dr. Maglin Halsey-Nichols about a principle-d...