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Amy Shick and Mary Chiesa Apr 28, 2019

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Episode 179 is Mary Chiesa and Amy Shick. The two sisters have created the AEGIS Neonate Medical Wrap. AEGIS helps facilitate safe hands-free skin to skin bonding to reduce the risk of infant falls, help increase successful breastfeeding rates, and standardize proper infant positioning as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. AEGIS was named a Top 10 Hot New Product this year at EMS Today. Mary Chiesa, Founder CEO of SAPLACOR has 15 years of operating room, labor and delivery, and ambulance transport experience. Amy recently co-founded a military relocation company, sold the business to a new real estate and relocation company and helped develop that business until she joined SAPLACOR. She began her career as a corporate paralegal. Our discussion includes SAPLACOR, their different paths into the EMS and ambulance transport world, their partnerships, and the incident that led to the creation of the AEGIS Wrap.

Nick Nudell Apr 21, 2019

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Episode 178 is Nick Nudell. Nick has over 25 years of EMS and health care experience and has used his visionary skills to improve health care systems designs and performance. Nick is one of the founders of the American Paramedic Association, which published their manifesto this month. Though this podcast was recorded before the manifesto was made public, we discuss the manifesto, the APA, and other organizations Nick is associated with. Should all EMS providers be called Paramedics? Nick answers this question as well as we discuss the state of EMS and Nick's cross country travels.

Jan Marks Apr 14, 2019

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Episode 177 is Jan Marks. Jan was born in Pittsburgh and worked for City of Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS for 29 years before retiring due to a disability. Jan started her career on the Southside of Pittsburgh on Medic 8. Jan rose through the ranks and was the first female Field Supervisor for the Bureau promoted in 1987. Jan was a member of the Pittsburgh Public Safety Honor Guard and a dive team member. Jan played a key part of my wedding as she caught the bouquet. Jan and I reminisce about her career, her mentors, being a Paramedic, supervising, and working for the "City".

The Food We Eat. Apr 07, 2019

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Episode 176: Who in the public safety arena has not grabbed fast food, sweets, and a sugary drink while on duty? Does the food we eat impact the performance of EMS and Fire personnel? A report from the Ambulance Service Manager Program from Fitch and Associates dives into this subject with "Does Diet Impact Fire/EMS Performance and Outcomes". Jaime Pospil, James Simmons, and Anthony Minge will let us know the answer to the question and provide insight on how public safety can eat better. Jamie Pospisil is a Captain with Lincoln Fire and Rescue in Lincoln, NE and has been with the agency for 15 years. This experience expands beyond a career department to include ten years of volunteer service at Southwest Rural Fire Protection District. James Simmons is the Director of Marketing and Business Development for Seals Ambulance in Indianapolis, IN. Prior to his current position, he was Seal's Operations Manager. Anthony Minge is a senior partner with Fitch & Associates. He coordinates the firm’s educational offerings and is responsible for the firm’s reimbursement, compliance, and membership consulting services. We discuss food, the paper, the guest's career paths, and the Ambulance Service Manager Program. The report is available on the Fitch & Associates website

Eli Beer Mar 24, 2019

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Episode 175 is Eli Beer. How about reaching a patient in 90 seconds? What if your EMS service is treating over 300,000 patients a year and your EMS service is performing this with 5000 volunteers. Eli is the President and Founder of United Hatzalah of Israel. United Hatzalah has become so successful, as it has been at the forefront of medical innovation. This is what Eli Beer does in Israel, South America, and in the United States. We discuss Eli’s vision is to bring this life saving model across the world. The Ambucycle, a motorcycle that has all the medical equipment of an ambulance aside from a stretcher is one of the innovations that United Hatzalah has created. We talk about this and EMS in Israel in this episode.
A video created from NAS Daily about United Hatzalah and increased United Hatzalah's social media footprint, which is worth watching. Here is a link to this video. https://www.facebook.com/nasdaily/videos/how-he-builtthe-fastest-ambulance/1934205116700912/

Bob Page Mar 17, 2019

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Episode 174 is Bob Page. If you want to learn or improve upon on EMS topics such as 12-Leads and Capnography and many more while having fun, then Bob Page is the educator and instructor you want. Bob discusses how and why he became the award winning educator as well as we talk about the current EMS state of education. Bob Page is an internationally known speaker, instructor, author, and paramedic. He is recognized for his energetic, humorous and motivational style. Bob takes ordinarily dry and hard to teach topics and transforms them into a fun, learning experience. Bob has been an instructor for almost 4 decades teaching a variety of adult education courses from customer service to advanced medical care. He has presented over 3000 seminars worldwide. He was recognized by his peers in Missouri as Missouri’s “Most Creative Educator” in 2009 and was awarded the Legends That Walk Among Us Award from NAEMSE is 2012.

Miriam Heyman Mar 10, 2019

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Episode 173 is Miriam Heyman. One of the topics of this podcast over the past 3 years to bring more awareness to suicide within our public safety family and how to recognize and hopefully prevent. This episode discusses a White Paper looking into suicide and mental health of first responders. Would you believe that in 2017, more first responders died of suicide than in the line of duty? Miriam Heyman is a Senior Program Officer at the Ruderman Family Foundation, where she is responsible for the development and oversight of disability inclusion programs. She began her career as a Special Education Teacher in the New York City Public Schools, and while teaching she earned a Master’s Degree in Special Education from the City University of New York. Miriam received a Ph.D. in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College. This podcast hopes to continue the conversation and awareness of this important topic.

Samuel Adams and Christian Adams Mar 03, 2019

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Episode 172 is Christian Adams and Samuel Adams. The Adams brothers are identical twins, Paramedic/Firefighters, and authors. Their new book "Life and Death Matters" provides an integrated approach to prehospital medicine by incorporating professional attributes, principles of decision making, and medical principles in order to develop first responders and give them the tools for true success in this profession. We discuss their book, career path, being twins, and how to be humble preceptors and paramedics. The book takes a different approach at decision-making and "Life and Death Matters" is available at their website field-medics.com and Amazon.

Randolph Mantooth Feb 23, 2019

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Special Saturday Re-Podcast: It has been raining all day here in Raleigh and I came across a TV Block created and produced by Jack Webb. I watched Dragnet, Adam 12, and Emergency! Like me and many others who have shared their story on Medic2Medic received their spark from Emergency! Though if it was not for Jack Webb and R.A. Cinader, and Emergency my EMS career would not have happened. This re-podcast of Randolph Mantooth, who joined me for number 30 is dedicated to Mr. Webb and Mr. Cinader. Enjoy.

Luke Lorentzen Feb 17, 2019

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Episode 171 is Luke Lorentzen. Luke is a documentary filmmaker and his new documentary Midnight Family will take us through the wild world of EMS in Mexico City. In Mexico City, there is the Ochoa family that runs a private ambulance service competing with others for profit ambulance services for EMS patients. The documentary will take us inside this cutthroat industry and how the Ochoa family struggles to make it in this environment. Luke discusses how he met the family, the idea, how he got the Ochoa's to agree to let him film and the challenges that came about in the filming. Luke is a graduate of Stanford University Art and Film Studies and has won awards for his filmmaking. The documentary film does not have a relase date.

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