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Epinephrine: Outdated? 💉💘

Background: Since the 2018 release of the UK-based PARAMEDIC2 trial, epinephrine’s role in cardiac arrest and ACLS care has been hotly debated. The PARAMEDIC2 trial was an interventional study that assessed the 30 d

🚑TRANSPORT-BASED BILLING STIFLES EMS🚑

Medicare, the current largest insurance payer in the United States, has long operated ambulance billing on a per-transport basis only. Rather than billing for the exact nature of the call or services rendered,

BLEEDING CONTROL IS RELEVANT TO US ALL. This photo is taken form the recent NYC subway shooting in Brooklyn. Do you think the man in this photo thought that he would be forced to save the life of another when he woke up that morning? No one thinks th

A tragedy, and one we see all too often. Roadway safety is under prioritized in modern legislature and road design. Keep yourself safe on these roads.

EMSPAC - PAVING THE WAY
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I would like to take a moment to bring attention to EMSPAC, an EMS advocacy group that has started off in NYC but seeks to extend nationwide. EMSPAC seeks to bind together the 11k+ NYC EMS providers into a political

STOP THE BLEED - ANYONE CAN SAVE A LIFE
This article focuses on the impact that Stop the Bleed can have on preventing trauma related deaths.

Recognizing a life threatening bleed, applying pressure, and applying a tourniquet when normal pressure won

Know your meds!

Statin class medications are a commonly prescribed medication class used to reduce levels of LDL - “bad cholesterol” - within the body. It does so by disrupting the breakdown of mevalonate, the precursor for cholesterol p

🚑 ARTICLE EXCERPT: 🚑

I remember my first time coming upon an atypical MI presentation. We were dispatched to a geriatric woman’s home, priority 3, for reports of a fall. The caller specified they didn’t wish to transport the woman - s

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