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Back To The Basics: Snakebites
Responding to a snakebite call? Here’s everything you need to know about identifying venomous bites…
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Back to the Basics: Pediatric Trauma
By Chris Ebright Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children,…
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Classroom Patient Assessment Activity
An exercise for EMT or ALS classes to help students understand body system exams as…
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Back to the Basics: Anaphylaxis
By Chris EbrightDo you ever notice that the shape and contour of a grain of…
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What Does Mechanism of Injury Tell Us?
EMS loves mechanism of injury. The excitement of pulling up to a big crash, examining…
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Back to the Basics: That Gut Feeling
Assessing abdominal pain is one of the easiest and also one of the hardest things…
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American Heart Association Guidelines 2020 To Be Released
What will the release of the American Heart Association Guidelines mean for providers and how…
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Why Are We Still Stuck On Oxygen?
By Dan Limmer I love formative discussions with other educators—the kind that I can’t stop…
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Back to the Basics: Chest Trauma
Chest Traumas are the second most common traumatic injury, and come with the highest cases…
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Back to Basics: Perfusion
Perfusion is the necessary component to transport the goods of ventilation and external respiration throughout…
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Back to the Basics: Ventilation v. Respiration
This installment of Back to the Basics discusses respiration and ventilation and how these physiological…
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Back to the Basics : CHF vs. Chronic Bronchitis: Shortness of Breath
Many EMT students have a hard time differentiating a dyspneic congestive heart failure patient from…
