“Medical Math” is a top entry search phrase to Everyday EMS Tips. Many searchers of “Paramedic Medical Math” land on a post about the EMS Boot Camp Session, Medical Math Made Easy, which is great, but I would like to offer a comprehensive list of medical math resources.

What are your go to articles, apps, books, people, reference guides, and slide shows about Medical Math for EMT and Paramedic students?

Have you used this book, Paramedic: Calculations for Medication Administration (Amazon Affiliate Link). Was it useful? Do you recommend it?

Thanks. I appreciate your help building a comprehensive list.

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New Resource Downloads from MedicMadness.com

Medic Madness blogger Sean Eddy regularly shares his patient assessment tips and tools. He recently posted two great memory aids for your pocket:

• Pediatric GCS Card
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Continuing Education: Prehospital Treatment  of Asthma

Jim Hoffman and Steven Kanarian presented a webinar on prehospital treatment of asthma. Watch the video and download handouts for this continuing education program.

Survey: School Emergency Management Practices

Ric Skinner asked me to share, “The purpose of this short survey is to gauge the current level of emergency management, disaster preparedness and crisis response, and identify where these programs and actions need improvement.” Find the survey, to be filled out by someone knowledgeable of school district procedures is at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B2NYFMD

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This is a guest event review from Mark Albert. EverydayEMSTips.com welcomes guest post submissions from EMS professionals and supporters of EMS. To submit a guest post view the guidelines.

This was the first episode in an ongoing series at EMS Boot Camp, hosted by James Hoffman. The series is going to feature veteran Bronx Medic and educator Steven Kanarian. The series is entitled “Things You Should Know Partner”. It is extremely beneficial not only for the brand new street medic, but also for seasoned medics, as well as EMT’s. The theme of partners reverberated throughout the lecture with mentions of how partners may complement each other depending on talents, seniority, and/or clinical expertise.

In this first episode, time was allocated to the Management of Cardiac Arrest. Specifically, Steve addressed the importance of a team approach and the aspect of delegation. The most striking part in this section of the presentation was how he evoked the need to participate, through his personal experience, and how paramount it is to employ a human approach to dealing with family members in coping with the potential negative outcomes. Steve had fantastic words of encouragement that the EMS professional can take and apply in almost any death situation.

Gears shifted to discuss acronyms about difficult intubations and handling difficult airways. Moreover, Steve gave some great insight to some of the anatomical hallmarks within the upper airway. He also gave some excellent advice for those difficult cases that medics will encounter along with pictures to depict the presentation.

In a logical sequence, Waveform Capnography was explained in a comprehensive fashion. Steve also explained its importance in the prognosis of Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC) and in conditions other than Cardiac Arrest. Therefore, he mitigated the misconception that EtC02 is solely for monitoring the proper placement of advanced airways.

The last portion of the program was dedicated to the scheduled updates to the 2010 AHA CPR guidelines. Steve covered the major changes, like compressions (rates, recoil, etc.) and the paradigm shift of ABC to be CAB.

I would strongly recommend any new medic or seasoned medic join this program, in that it is an enjoyable and informative learning experience. Good advice was bequeathed on dealing with senior partners and how to acquire trust, learn skills and tricks that are extremely valuable. This along with key points on general interpersonal skills for all field EMS providers, offered an invaluable lesson.

Steve has left the agenda open for next month at EMSBootCamp.com and interested participants can contact him at to propose topics at stevenkanarian@gmail.com or info@ems-safety.com.

Mark Albert Rph Pharm D Candidate is a Pharmacist who is a Pharmacy consultant in the EMS community and serves on NYC REMSCO., EMS Podcaster

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2010 was an exciting year for Everyday EMS Tips. Pageviews and visits continued their strong growth. I welcomed the support of several terrific sponsors and guest bloggers that helped make us one of the top sites for EMS Smartphone content.

If you are interested in advertising and what to know more about our analytics view the advertising page.

The top three posts of 2010:

1. 2010 EMS Week Planning Resources

2. EMS iPhone Apps

3. Medical Math Training from EMS Boot Camp

The top five referring sites were:

1. theEMTSpot.com

2. EMSBootCamp.com

3. EMS1.com

4. LifeUndertheLights.com

5. InsomniacMedic.BlogSpot.com

Top keywords included:

1. EMS Week 2010

2. EMS Week

3. Stroke Assessment

4. Therapeutic Hypothermia

5. EMS Tips

6. Patient Assessment Scenarios

Other factoids:

1. Less than 2% of users visited with a dial-up connection.

2. More than half of users browsed with Internet Explorer.

3. 82% of visitors were from the United States.

4. 3% of site visits were with an iPhone

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National Registry renewal is about 10 weeks away. Do you have enough continuing education hours?

Here are some online training opportunities you might consider for continuing education hours, as well as professional development.

1. RapidCE.com – online continuing education from EMS World and CentreLearn.

2. EMSBootCamp.com – live and recorded training programs from EMS education experts.

3. MedicCast Extra – tools, tips, and study aids for EMS students.

4. Physio-Control University – top flight training programs on Capnography and 12 Lead ECG Interpretation.

5. JEMSCE.com – a full service online training program.

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In just a year the EMS Boot Camp project has built an archive library of over 22 hours of recorded EMT and Paramedic continuing education webinars. The multimedia CE lessons cover many important aspects of EMS. Each EMS Boot Camp webinar includes:

• Recorded video and audio of the session that you can watch anytime online right from your computer.
• Download MP3 of the audio that you can listen to via your IPod or other MP3 player or even burn to a disc.
• Transcripts of the session that may include question and answer sessions, chat logs or exclusive resources discussed during the live session.
• Printable handout and or outline of the session that you can present to your training officer or Medical Director for CE credit.
• Written transcripts of selected sessions.
• Plus a printable Certificate of Completion for each session.

The educators and their titles in the EMS Boot Camp archives include:

Steve Whitehead:

• The Art of Patient Rapport
• Conquering The National Registry Cognitive Exam
• Conquering The National Registry Skills Stations

Buck Feris:

• Medical Math in 3D
• Uncovering the Autonomic Nervous System

Lisa Hollett:

• Child Abuse Recognition in EMS
• Critter Catching 101 – OB Emergencies
• Trauma for Tw0 – Trauma in Pregnancy

Joseph F. Clark:

• A Google Search is Not Research

Plus there are sessions from Greg Friese, Jim Hoffman and Jamie Davis:

• Conquering Medical Control
• Pediatric Assessment Essentials and Case Studies
• IV Complications in EMS
• MCI Response for EMS
• Diabetic Patients – What Your Instructor Left Out
• EMS Exam Boot Camp
• EMS Training Preparation
• EMS Career Development

For unique and useful EMS training you can start using right now visit EMSBootCamp.com for complete details on each session.

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Date : July 26th 2010
Time : 1400 (2:00PM) EST

Stroke. EMS Boot Camp will tackle this topic on a leading cause of death with guest speaker Michael Smith. Michael will discuss anatomy through tPA and target specific areas of EMS concern regarding stroke including:

• Blood supply and artery anatomy
• Specific types of CVA
• EMS assessment and use of Cincinnati and LA stroke scales
• Prehospital care from basic monitoring to potential medications
• Stroke alerts, tPA and invasive retrieval
• Stroke differentials

The best part of every EMS Boot Camp session is live question and answer with the guest speaker. Stroke is a vital topic. The content in this session is  sure to help you as a field provider and give you tools you can use right away. Sign up now for the free live session and take advantage of this one of a kind training resource.

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Paramedic, educator, and blogger Steve Whitehead is presenting an EMSBootCamp.com session on Monday May 10 – Conquering the NREMT Skill Stations – at 2000 eastern time. Steve is an experienced educator that is adapting his proven classroom presentation for EMT and Paramedic students for the live and interactive EMSBootCamp.com format. Register now for the free live presentation at EMSBootCamp.com.

Join Steve to learn to:

• Develop a mindset of success for the NR skills stations. Discover how attitude, knowledge, confidence and skills all play a major part in your success.
• Understand how the test is conducted and scored. From points to time constraints.
• Know the importance of conscious vs. unconscious competence, the verbal rehearsal and “memory boxing”.
• Avoid common testing pitfalls and test station etiquette.
• Find your pace, airway management and critical failure awareness.
• Master powerful skill development strategies.
• Take personal ownership of your testing performance.

The session will give every participant an opportunity for Live Q & A with Steve as well as experienced educators Greg Friese and Jim Hoffman.

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In this episode of the EMS Office Hours podcast Jim Hoffman, the EMS professional, discussed pain management in EMS and how griping to your partner isn’t helping anyone. He also talked about some of his recent work with EMS Boot Camp and Webinars for New York City EMS professionals.

I was not able to join Jim for this episode, but plan to be back for the next episode. Remember anyone can call in during the EMS Office Hours podcast with a discussion topic, question, or resource they want to share. All episodes and future episodes are available at EMS Office Hours podcast.

Also listen to Jim’s ideas on how you can be a driving force in EMS and find out about The EMS Professional “EMS Week 2010 Giveaway”.

Show notes:

EMS Boot Camp http://emsbootcamp.com

EMS Week Giveaway http://ems-safety.com/emsweek2010.htm

Chronicles of EMS http://chroniclesofems.com

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