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Ep #11 @CodeGreenEMS - Mental Health & MOS Suicide Prevention
For more of the Code Green Campaign, visit: http://codegreencampaign.org/
President: Ann Marie Farina
Ann Marie is one of the founders of Code Green and is the driving force behind the campaign. Ann Marie helped develop the idea for Code Green after the suicide of a coworker in March of 2014. One thing lead to another, and Code Green was born.
Ann Marie was born and raised in rural Alaska to a firefighting family and has been in EMS since 2003. She attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she obtained her Paramedic certification in 2006. While in Alaska she worked as a rural transport EMT, a wildland fire medic, an oilfield medic, and a volunteer firefighter. Since 2009 Ann Marie has worked as a full time field Paramedic in Spokane, WA for the primary 911 transport agency. She also worked part time for EMSconnect, writing entertaining and sometimes slightly inappropriate continuing education for EMS providers.
In addition to being the President of the board, Ann Marie serves Code Green as the treasurer, graphic designer, website admin, Facebook admin, and general jack-of-all trades. She also serves on the EMS1 Editorial Advisory Board. If she had free time she would spend it at the gym and using her camera for something besides a paperweight.
Secretary: Fiona Campbell
Fiona has been in public safety for 15 years, initially as a volunteer firefighter/EMT in 2000 before transitioning to her current position as a paramedic for Austin-Travis County EMS in 2012, where she is on the department Honor Guard and peer support team.
She’s the other main admin of the Code Green Facebook page, and is our primary statistics person. She’s also the southern half of our instructor base for our mental wellness course. Fiona is also the reason coffee was invented, and no, you can’t have her cup. It’s hers. Don’t even ask.
Her other passions include mentoring and educating future EMS providers – done via her department’s Explorer Post – photography, and editing fiction novels. She is owned by several rather over-sized Maine Coon cats and a large pack of dogs, all of whom think she spends too much time on the computer and not enough time paying attention to them.
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~Faizan H. Arshad, MD @emscritcare
Ep #10 – Prehospital Care Research Forum – Annual Summit Recap with @davidpage.
For more with Dave Page & the PCRF podcast: http://www.pcrfpodcasts.org/
FISDAP Research: http://www.fisdap.net/research
For a quick introduction to research instructors can send students to www.fisdap.net/research101 a free online course.
Round Table PCRF Summit:
Alan Batt - Critical Care Paramedic
Keith Widmeier BA, NRP, FP-C
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Christiana Corrado EMT-P
Adjunct Professor
Westchester Community College
Ron Lawler BUS NRP
Director
Sanford Health EMS Education
North Dakota State College Sciences
Kelly Walsh, RN BSN PHRN
EMS Academy Program Director
Creighton University-Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois Paramedic Consortium
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Ep #9 - Simulation - Double Sequential Defibrillation in refractory VF & Lecture by @ccareanywhere on #DSED
Hot off the press! Our case series on #DSED just accepted for publication in Prehospital Emergency Care:
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZQsRHp54MWXAIkCsUiAi/full
REBEL EM: Beyond ACLS
http://rebelem.com/beyond-acls-dual-simultaneous-external-defibrillation/
EMS World: Hold the Coroner
http://www.emsworld.com/article/10318805/double-sequential-defibrillation
PEC: Cabanas et al
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25243771
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Ep #8 - EMSJC - Prehospital Ultrasound and Mechanical CPR in OHCA
Prehospital Evaluation of Effusion, Pneumothorax, and Standstill (PEEPS): Point-of-care Ultrasound in Emergency Medical Services
West J Emerg Med. 2015 Jul;16(4):503-9. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2015.5.25414. Epub 2015 Jul 14.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265961
J Thorac Dis. 2015 Oct;7(10):E459-67. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2015.10.40.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623121
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Ep #7 – Simulation Episode – Selective Spinal Immobilization with Dr. Joe Bart
(Full HD video on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh44vQHpQvk&feature=iv&src_vid=PkNRiJm6FRY&annotation_id=annotation_4084272705
Joseph A. Bart DO – EMS division – Operations Medical Director, Deputy Fellowship Director
University of Buffalo Profile Page: https://medicine.buffalo.edu/content/medicine/faculty/profile.html?ubit=jabart
National Center for Security & Preparedness: http://www.albany.edu/ncsp/
-- Eliminate the Standing Take Down
-- Selective use of the C-collar
-- The Backboard as an Extrication Device
-- The Role of Alternate Devices
-- Q&A with Dr. Bart
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Ep #6 - It's a Mick-Tatorship with Dr. Mick Molloy @drmickmolloy
Former Past President Irish Medical Association and current board member of the Irish PHECC (Prehospital Emergency Care Council)
-- Medicine In Ireland - Emergency Medicine and EMS / Disaster Preparedness
-- Challenging road to Disaster Preparedness & Stealing a Police Care
-- BestBETs: http://www.bestbets.org/
-- How to foster high quality research and mitigate Inertia
-- Papers App: http://www.papersapp.com/mac/
-- Manuscript App: http://www.manuscriptsapp.com/
-- Current Policy Challenges of PHECC: https://www.phecit.ie/
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Learn more about the #EMSWolfpack on emswolfpack.com
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BLS CPAP / JEMS:
http://www.jems.com/articles/print/volume-38/issue-11/patient-care/argument-bls-cpap.html
Optimizing Preoxygenation, Delayed Sequence Intubation:
Must read: http://emcrit.org/preoxygenation
Paper in Annals @emcrit @mdaware: http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(14)01365-1/abstract
LITFL DSI: http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/delayed-sequence-intubation/
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Saving life and brain with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A single-center analysis of in-hospital cardiac arrests
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26383007
Tranexamic acid as part of remote damage-control resuscitation in the prehospital setting: A critical appraisal of the medical literature and available alternatives
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26002268
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Ep. 2 - ALS Simulation - Creating a Push-Dose Pressor and Calculating Shock Index
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