EMS Practice
This is a podcast for folks who wish to do EMS better. It is hosted by two Emergency Medicine and EMS physicians--Drs. Mohamed B. Hagahmed, MD, and Owen T. Traynor, MD.
Episodes
8 episodes
Wide Complex Tachycardia (WCT)
Drs Hagahmed and Traynor are joined by Jeff Reim, a former paramedic and current Physician Assistant in the cardiac electrophysiology department at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, to discuss the approach to patients presenting with...
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51:16
My First Cricothyrotomy
Drs. Hagahmed and Traynor review a case with paramedic Ed Walkos that resulted in Ed's first cricothyrotomy.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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32:31
Narrow Complex Tachycardia
Drs. Mohamed Haghamed and Owen Traynor discuss the care of patients with narrow complex tachycardia. EMs providers in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania can earn 1.0 hours of EMS CME after listening to this podcast. Head over to emspr...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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53:22
New Website Promo
Doctors Hagahmed and Traynor announce that the emspractice.com website is up and running. Currently, 4 episodes of the podcast series can be found here. Each episode has 2 accompanying files. One is a computer-generated transcript of the episod...
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4:32
Community Paramedicine
Dan Swayze, Vice President for Community Services at the UPMC Health Plan, Christopher Matek, Chief of TriCommunity South EMS, and Owen Traynor discuss community paramedicine. “Emergency medical services (EMS) of the future w...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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39:30
Droperidol and EMS
Join doctors Mohamed Haghamed, MD, Dave Zimmerman, Pharm D, and Owen Traynor, MD as they discuss the EMS care of the agitated patient and droperidol. The PA ALS protocols 8001-Agitated Behavior/Psychiatric Disorders and 8002- Delirium Wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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36:21
Fatigue and EMS
I speak with Dr. Dan Patterson about Fatigue, Napping and EMS. Dan is a nationally registered paramedic and Fellow of the Academy of EMS (FAEMS). He studies safety in emergency care settings with special emphasis on safety culture, fatigu...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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41:58
Opioid Use Disorder and EMS
This is a podcast for EMS clinicians about Opioid Use Disorder. In the past few years, we've learned that opioid use disorder and opiate overdoses have become the number one cause of death in people under 50. Naloxone has been used in prehospit...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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38:54