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Latest Episodes

Mental Health for First Responders, with special guest Dr. Joseph Martin (audio)
January 29, 2023

Today I sit down with Dr. Joseph Martin, (IG: @JaTXerd) a Family Practice and Addiction Specialist who is now an EMS physician, to talk about mental health in our first responders. Spoiler alert: it h

Mental Health for First Responders, with special guest Dr. Joseph Martin
January 29, 2023

Today I sit down with Dr. Joseph Martin, (IG: @JaTXerd) a Family Practice and Addiction Specialist who is now an EMS physician, to talk about mental health in our first responders. Spoiler alert: it h

Quick Bite: Carbon Monoxide
December 23, 2022

Cold weather incoming! This is just a quick review of carbon monoxide poisoning treatment options, as well as what differentiates cold water immersion from regular drowning. We anticipate an increase

Push Dose Pressors for EMS: Epinephrine and Norepinephrine
March 09, 2022

Sometimes a small dose of epinephrine or norepinephrine can keep a patient from becoming hypotensive during intubation, or may help bridge the patient to a continuous infusion. Dr. Pickett talks about

Thinking: Abdominal Pain with Ginger Locke from the Medic Mindset
March 09, 2022

Like Starsky and Hutch, like peanut butter and jelly, like Riggs and Murtaugh, the inseparable duo is back together for Medic Mindset for an episode of the Thinking Series, this time on abdominal pain

Snakebites! with Dr. Spencer Greene (@ToxSpencer)
January 08, 2022

Snakebites are a common patient encounter for #EMS here in Texas, though virtually all states have venomous snakes of one kind or another. Dr. Spencer Greene (@ToxSpencer) walks us through some pearls

Episode 49: Icepocalypse
March 16, 2021

YES I KNOW THE THUMBNAIL HAS EPISODE 4 and it’s episode 49. But we have a YouTube channel now so that’s why we have different episode numbers. It’s less confusing than renumbering everything. ANYwhoms