Sometimes thinking is hard. In EMS and in medicine in general, there are a lot of things to remember when encountering a patient. What are the right drug dosages? How do we calculate body surface area for burns? What about CPR?

Regular listeners will know that here at medschoolmedic, we love Ketamine. Earlier this year, in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Riddel et al. explored how effective ketamine would be when given as a first-line drug for excited delirium or ...

Mike Defilippo joins the podcast to discuss his summer of physician shadowing. What is involved in physician shadowing? Will shadowing help me in medical school, or help me get into medical school? What did he learn from the process?

Why use TXA? What is it, and how does it work? Tranexamic Acid, or TXA is a drug that helps control hyperfibronolysis, which is associated with increased mortality. Essentially, the drug works to stop bleeding.

It seems like with each passing day, we hear more and more about opioid overdoses. Its something that was discussed in the early days of this website. Yet, we still seem to hear about the dangers and emerging trends of opioid abuse,

Why does the profession of EMS seem to move along so slowly? Why do the medications and technology seem to move along at a glacial pace? Today’s shorty explores these topics.   Follow MSM on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

MSM Clinical guy Dan Schwester joins the pod to discuss the SMACC conference, and rant with Ed about EMS in general. VF arrest mindset Cognitive offloading High-Fidelity simulation Pre-brief Debrief Stress and handling it Communication under stress “If...

MSM Clinical guy Dan Schwester joins the pod to discuss the SMACC conference, and rant with Ed about EMS in general. VF arrest mindset Cognitive offloading High-Fidelity simulation Pre-brief Debrief Stress and handling it Communication under stress “If...

In 2011, Weingart and Levitan published a paper in Annals describing how oxygenation works during an intubation attempt. This paper was a game changer. It is phenomenally robust paper that uses nothing but the facts and data. It is, in part,

We’ve talked about flipping the EMS classroom before on this website. Today, we’re joined by paramedic and EMS educator Anna Brown to discuss ways to flip the classroom. We also discuss different ways to handle the classroom environment,