This is a guest app review by EMT, Firefighter, and HazMat Coordinator Brent Jensen. If you want to guest post or review on this blog, check out the guidelines here . Searchable ERG is an application developed by STKI Concepts for Android phones. As the applications name implies, it…

This morning I dropped of my son for his first day of kindergarten. He was relaxed and excited. I was a mix of relief, pride, and anxiety. I know he is ready for the academic challenges of school, but I am more nervous about the social challenges. First days…

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Steve Whitehead discusses the problem of Too Much Information the problem of people avoiding learning by claiming that they are being presented with Too Much Information . He gives 3 examples: 1) We like to keep the bar low. 2) We fear the limitless and undefined. 3) We are…

In the past week there have been a couple of EMS crashes that have made the news. The first crash is from Maryland on Friday, August 27. Captain Oscar Garcia, spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue, says the ambulance had just refueled after dropping off a patient at…

The most viewed posts by EverydayEMSTips.com readers this month were: 1. Paramedic that Knows Everything Declines Additional Knowledge 2. Emergency Response Guidebook App Review 3. 5 Things I Personally Check at the Start of Every Shift 4. App Review: Car Locator for the Droid The top post for August…

I finally noticed that Medic999 is back. Welcome back. After 2 months and 5 days of exile from blogging. Why? Purely to appease those who live by the rule – What if . . . ? But we shouldn’t be reckless. Bad things do happen, otherwise we would not…

For readers that were once paramedics and are now nurses or are like me and married to a nurse I wanted to share this news item. My good friend and podcaster Jamie Davis is hosting the first listener cruise for listeners to his nursing show podcast. Learn more at…

TOTWTYTR has a brief post pointing out a problem demonstrated by some people who just never learned just recently learned one important lesson about airway management. EMS Tip Of The Day . I am sure that TOTWTYTR found a memorable way to explain this concept to them. Perhaps we…

In last week’s Lancet is an article about the way politics can be stupid. Not really a surprise. Evidence-free politics was recently on display when the UK’s Department of Health rejected a call by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee to stop funding the use of homoeopathy…