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Jim Augustine is a featured speaker at EMS World Expo 2013 , Sept. 8–12, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Attack One’s crew members are in the work area of the emergency department, cleaning up their equipment following a transport. As the paramedic completes the patient care report and finalizes verbal communications with the charge nurse, an ED security guard requests assistance getting a person out of the backseat of a car. The guard tells the nurse someone walked in and...
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History’s Mysteries

With no background info, what’s a crew to do?

Article • April 1st, 2013
Outbreak Hotel

When flu floods a community, where can a sick patient go?

Article • March 1st, 2013
Unexpected Drop-ins

A bus crash prompts a complex community-wide response.

Article • December 1st, 2012
Seizure Secrets

What can you tell a grown child's parents?

Article • November 1st, 2012
Vaginal Bleeding in the Pregnant Patient

Pregnancy complications can threaten lives

Article • November 1st, 2012
Pregnant Pause

Third-trimester emergencies: What do you do?

Article • October 1st, 2012
Literature Review: Long QT Syndrome in Excited Delirium

LQTS may be a cause of death in some cases of ExDS, and this warrants further investigation

Article • September 1st, 2012
Cancer Complications

Emergencies during cancer recovery

Article • September 1st, 2012
Pierced Ear

There are a few injuries affecting the ear that are important for EMS providers to be trained to manage and for which they should have protocols in place

Article • August 1st, 2012
Crash Course

Patient transport always poses danger.

Article • July 1st, 2012
Running Into Trouble

With heat, watch for altered mental status.

Article • June 1st, 2012
Fence Splitter

Evading police leads to a gruesome testicular injury

Article • May 1st, 2012
Target Audience

A mass shooting requires cooperative response

Article • April 1st, 2012
Case Review: Mystery Stick

When a dirty needle turns one patient into two, crews get a reminder that bloodborne illnesses require careful cleanup.

Article • March 1st, 2012
When It Rains, It Pours: Blood Thinners Complicate a Nosebleed

An elderly patient’s new medication has unintended consequences.

Article • February 1st, 2012

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