Managing head injury patients can be challenging. Actually they can be down right scary. Let’s face it, the closed head injury call can go sideways fast. They tend to be altered or unconscious. They can be angry and combative. They vomit. Their vital signs do weird things that are…

If you are an EMT of any rank or variety, I’d like to introduce you to a friend that you may not know about. For your entire career in EMS, you’ve had a friend who has tirelessly advocated for your well being, silently worked behind the scenes to increase…

I have to give credit where credit is due. The British Heart Foundation recently released a public service announcement video staring tough-guy actor Vinnie Jones . (See Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch.) This might be the most clever medical PSA I’ve ever encountered. The British Heart Foundation…

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Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be a firefighter / paramedic in the middle of a dense American metropolis? If you’d like a glimpse at paramedic life inside of a big city fire department, I know of no better place than The Happy Medic HQ…

Follow me on this. Back in the day, they were Emergency Medical Services Magazine before they decided to shorten things up and become EMS Magazine. (Everyone called it that anyway.) Then they decided to swap out their old moniker for EMS World in early 2011. New name…same folks, same…

In the world of EMS blogs, Everyday EMS Tips is the potpourri bowl of EMS information. Created by Greg Friese of Plover, Wisconsin in 2008, this website has maintained its eclectic spirit with style. You never really know what you’re going to get when you stop by Greg’s blog,…

Mix your favorite EMS instructor with The New England Journal of Medicine with Rage Against the Machine and you’ve got Rogue Medic , a blog for the smart, non-conformist in all of us. The Rogue Medic is Tim Noonan, an experienced paramedic who created a blog under a few…

There are a bunch of EMS podcasts out there. The variety and selection can be really dizzying. Over the past few years, several really good ideas have come and gone. Many podcasts don’t survive because their creators don’t realize just how hard it is to turn out an interesting,…

Our first stop on our tour of online EMS resources is EMS1 and make no mistake, there’s a reason why they’re first. EMS1 got started in the online EMS business looking after the online presence of some of the industry’s top magazine’s before they decided to strike out on…