FRNtv Blogs | Where the EMS 2.0 people congregate

Welcome to the First Responders Network of Blogs Our goal here at FRNtv is to bring the best minds together in video, audio or text to improve communications around the world for the first responder communities. There is no shortage of great content creators out there, but our message is driven by the EMS 2.0 concept, grass roots development of our message by first responders for our communities. The ultimate goal is to improve patient care any way we can... and we are on our way!

Latest Updates via Hybrid Medic:

Morals and Ethics ... When ethical behavior is taught in medical courses, it is assumed that the people we are instructing already have a set of morals that have been handed down to them, … ...

IV, O2, and Monitor ... I get amused when I watch some bright eyed bushy tailed medic student or field trainee. The excitement to be moving into the fun phase, or the next career phase …C ...

Who is John Galt? ... I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately. A lot. I’ve read 6 books since the start of the new year and I still have several more to wade through. …Conti ...

A Letter To The Manager ... Something I had tucked away that I dust off from time to time, how some of you may feel sometimes. Dear Manager (or Chief)- I have been in emergency services …Cont ...

Making a Field Tourniquet ... How to make a tourniquet in the field. If you like what I’m doing over there on YouTube, throw me a “Like” or a subscription ...

I Need A Hero ... It seems these days we have no heroes. People that once served as people to look up to, occupiers of the walls of boys and girls rooms as examples to …Continue Read ...

Latest Updates via Ambulance Junkie:

A journey to see my toes. ... I came across this on the interwebs, and I chuckled. It was the kind of chuckle that was amusing at first but quickly became uncomfortable. Uncomfortable because it was the truth and if you’re not ready for ...

What a decade!!! ... I’ve been talking and thinking about it for a year now. The past decade has been one which is likely hard to out do. In my 20′s I graduated college, got married, had a son, got the job of my … ...

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The Pediatric Ward ... When taught about Pediatrics in EMS it is always said that kids have an amazing ability to compensate in order to maintain homeostasis. Though when they decompensate they go very fast. If you ever want to experienc ...

A Junkie Update ... Well its been 8 weeks today since I was discharged. 2 Months oddly flies when you are more or less confined to being a prisoner of a medical condition. The good news is I’m improving over all, or at least R ...

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Latest Updates via Maddog Medic:

What have I learned? ... One of my favorite blogging folks, ResqEllie, has written a funny post about what she’s learned in our profession. She finishes by asking the rest of us what we’ve learned in ours. I thought I’d an ...

This call is the most important call of your care ... Every year, I return to the USA at least once to attend an EMS conference. In 2013, I attended EMSToday in Washington, DC. As I usually do, I make time to meet up with some of my friends and blogging … ...

An EMS Today Sit-down with Scott Kier ... I sat down with a lot of folks, turned on my recorder and had some amazing conversations. One of them is a fellow FRN affiliate blogger, Scott Kier. He and I have collaborated on a few projects and I hope … ...

A Sit-Down with Resqellie, the Value of a Good Na ... Resqellie is a blogger who’s been writing since February of 2005. She’s a dear friend of mine and a fabulous writer. I had a chance to catch up with her at EMSToday 2013 and, after plying her with good f ...

EMS Today 2013 ... I’m sitting in a lovely apartment I’ve rented through Air Bnb and getting ready to head over to the conference center and dive into EMSToday 2013. I’ve always enjoyed this conference and I’ve ...

Can You Hear Me Now? (Part 3) ... A reader asked me if my patient from "Can You Hear Me Now (Part 2)" ever recovered. Here’s what I got from the cardiologist (who called our patient a "miracle") the next day: Melvin’s rig ...

Latest Updates via Paramedic Pulp Fiction:

Strike Out 2/2 ... We’re driving in the middle of the city after having just stopped at Starbucks to grab some caffeinated motivation for the day ahead of us. It was a long night yesterday as I was on the SWAT standby for an hour pa ...

Strike Out 1/2 ... strike 1 - to try to hit or attack something 2 – Baseball; a pitched ball judged good but missed or not swung at, three of which cause a batter to be out 3 – Collective refusal by employees to work und ...

System Status ... sys·tem 1 – a condition of harmonious, orderly interaction 2 – a group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole 3 – a set of principles or procedures accord ...

Field of Honor 2/2 ... To the fire lieutenant as we’re loading up the ambulance, “Can you please call PD and have the poor steed put out of its misery?” He laughs as he’s closing the rear doors to the ambulance, “I was thinking ...

Field of Honor 1/2 ... field of hon·or 1 – a scene of a duel 2 – a region where a battle is being, or has been, fought 3 – the scene of the final battle between the kings of the earth at the end of the world — Pol ...

Stagnation ... stag·na·tion 1 - the condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation ...

Latest Updates via 510 Medic:

A Comment on Arming EMS ... Two weeks ago I wrote about whether arming EMS responders was a good idea. In the three weeks or so since the original news story was reported, I’ve gotten a lot of feedback in comments, emails and on Twitte ...

Should EMS Providers Be Carrying Guns on the Job? ... The topic of EMS and fire personnel carrying firearms on duty has been covered heavily in both the news and blogosphere lately. I should preface this post by stating that I absolutely have a bias. I am a gun own ...

Medic SBK Looks at Cardiac Arrest Care ... One of the measurements that many EMS systems use to determine if they are “doing it right” is their survival rate for cardiac arrest patients. These numbers are broken down in many different ways but ...

Christmas in July? ... Unfortunately no, but this story had me going. Turns out that EMS agencies in Portland, Oregon are going to be studying “whether cardiac arrest drugs help or hinder”. That headline gave me hope that ...

Video teaches recognition of Acute STEMI in the p ... In a slightly lengthy, but really well done video, Dr Stephen Smith presents a guide for determining a STEMI in patients with a left bundle branch block. Thanks to the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine for mak ...

Does your call have too many cooks? ... In the kitchen that is. Over at JEMS, Guy Haskell has an article about a patient with suicidal ideation who evidently requires no less than 10 fire, police and EMS employees to treat her. The article brings up an i ...

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