EMS Avenger

04/26/2026

I'll be speaking at this conference. Get registered now!

We're glad you can join us for KEMSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2026. We have a room block reserved at Hilton Garden Inn Manhattan for August 12, 2026 through August 16, 2026. Booking your room is simple, just select

04/26/2026

1700-3000 people housed in cramped, inhospitable conditions. What could go wrong for local EMS? I think this is important to talk about. EMS readiness and availability can be strained by high usage in a concentrated population. So I'm not afraid of risking what this can deteriorate into by bringing attention to this.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903127.2026.2661802

04/25/2026

Dosing errors and med swaps are common in EMS. We have fewer built in checks. Handtevy has introduced a feature that is a hard stop for checking the med and alerting you if it's wrong. I wanted to feature this and get the word out. Handtevy has been a fantastic tool for EMS for improving pediatric care and overall care and safety for all patients.

04/24/2026

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04/24/2026

Running lights and sirens is an age-old tradition that is coming under increased scrutiny over the years. A lot of this scrutiny is on how we respond TO the call. There is less scrutiny on running L&S to the hospital. A new single center paper was published on the median time saved running L&S. Is this a "benefit"? Well...define benefit.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F9O4n1h4ArAMl2yr-GmUoFmPiyrPjq2j/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=101330058573955031814&rtpof=true&sd=true

04/23/2026

One of the reasons used to justify EMS carrying whole blood (As if the the main reason isn't obvious) is how long it can take to get it to the patient in the ED. The notion that this isn't N EMS problem to solve is absurd. Getting lifesaving care TO the injured in a TIMELY manner is literally what defines us. Not getting lifesaving care in a timely manner is the reason EMS was created.

04/23/2026

My new favorite services is "Salty" Fire and Rescue.

04/23/2026

My new favorite service is "Salty" Fire and Rescue.

04/23/2026

There are going to be people who question why we are even talking about this at this point. We know survival is significantly higher when working cardiac arrests on scene, and that outcomes are abysmal when transporting intra-arrest. But yet I still see the evidence every day that we have to continue the fight because of resistors. The only thing I take comfort in is that attrition will eventually win this fight.

04/22/2026

So far ECMO hasn't lived up to its potential in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The biggest reason is probably because the way we get patients to ECMO is one of the worst things to subject a patient in cardiac arrest to- transport. It's also because there is actually a set of parameters for ECMO that not every patient can meet. Getting ECMO to the patient is probably a better approach.

https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(26)00041-9/abstract

04/22/2026

While there may be a very small subset of students who benefit from some additional studying following completion of their EMT/Paramedic course, the overwhelming majority of students are doing themselves a disservice by waiting to test. Dr. Panchal has the data to demonstrate this. Don't sleep in the NREMT! Get out there while all that knowledge is fresh!

04/21/2026

Bringing it home! 25 videos and the only thing left to do is reassess. In a respiratory process such as RSV with bronchiolitis what we really want to see after all of our efforts is perfusion without compensation that the patient cannot sustain. There is such a thing as "happy compensation". That's when the body is doing its job in working a little bit harder to keep things together. It's when the body is being taxed by these compensatory mechanisms that we become concerned.