feed://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/all/index.rss en-us ℗ & © 2010 Alameda County EMS A clinical and educational show for EMS professionals. Alameda County EMS With your host Joshua English, EMT-P, we speak with the EMS industry's brightest minds to educate and inspire our field personnel. Alameda County EMS looks to engender dialog in the greater EMS community by highlighting fresh, innovative approches to EMS system management. With your host Joshua English, EMT-P, we speak with the EMS industry's brightest minds to educate and inspire our field personnel. Alameda County EMS looks to engender dialog in the greater EMS community by highlighting fresh, innovative approches to EMS system management. Alameda County EMS joshua.english@acgov.org Joshua English Managing Pain In this episode, Mike Taigman gives some of the more subtle aspects of managing the pain that we are presented with in the field. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/Ethics_Part_2_of_4.mp3 Tuesday, 08 Jun 2010 13:00:00 PDT 08:32 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, medical, ethics, paramedics, EMT, Public, Health, Mike, Taigman Joshua English Part 1 of a 4 part series on ethics issues in EMS. This is part one of a four part series on ethics in EMS. We will grapple with three of the toughest issues that face paramedics and EMTs: pain management, patient restraints, and end of life decisions. This first episode fromes the debate with a story from Mike Taigman about two patients and one donated heart. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/Ethics_Part_1_of_4.mp3 Thursday, 08 Apr 2010 13:00:00 PDT 09:02 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, medical, ethics, paramedics, EMT, Public, Health, Mike, Taigman Joshua English What works and doesn't work when calling base In this episode, we talk with base physicians from busy Highland Hospital's ER. They give great background information for the basic anatomy of a base contact. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/Base_Contact.mp3 Thursday, 25 Mar 2010 13:00:00 PDT 18:42 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, base, contact, paramedics, EMT, Public, Health, community Joshua English Why focusing our attention on stroke care is important In this episode, we talk with Jay Goldman, MD of Kaiser and Assistant Medical Director, Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, MD as well as Dr. Senai Kidane (EMS Fellow) and Mike Jacobs, EMT-P (Prehospital Care Coordinator with ALCO EMS). The discussion focuses on the rationale for developing a stroke center system in Alameda County and how such a system benefits the public. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/Stroke_Centers.mp3 Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 17:00:00 PDT 17:04 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, stroke, jcaho, paramedics, EMT, Public, Health, community Joshua English A brief review of the presentations from January 21, 2010 In this episode, we get a small glimpse of the most recent Bay Area Paramedic Journal Club event held on January 21, 2010. The topics discussed include: Back to Basics Airway, presented by Luis Abaunza; Asthma Care, presented by Eric Kilmer and Raven Record; and Zoll's Autopulse, presented by Dave Kamlan. The full length presentations can be listened to at http://www.bapjc.org . We'll be back next week to present the case for major changes to our Stroke Center policy. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/BAPJC_Review.mp3 Thursday, 26 Feb 2010 17:00:00 PDT 22:47 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, asthma, intubation, paramedics, EMT, journal, club, BAPJC Joshua English in conversation with Mike Gibson and Wellington Jackson, EMT-P In this episode I leave the studio to talk with Mike Gibson and Wellington Jackson how they are helping inner city youth in Alameda County find alternatives to violence, incarceration and poverty. The Bay EMT and Camp Sweeney programs are a way for Alameda County EMS to extend its reach into the community. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/Bay_EMT_Camp_Sweeney.mp3 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:00:00 PDT 17:51 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, Camp, Sweeney, Bay, EMT, Juvenile, justice Joshua English in conversation with Mike Taigman In this episode we talk with Alameda County AMR General Manager, Mike Taigman about an innovative approach to managing asthmatic patients in Alameda County with a proactive approach to identifying patients at risk for exacerbation of chronic asthma. Using a simple assessment and education tool, paramedics and EMTs in Alameda County can help patients get a handle on their condition. Certain patients will be followed with a visit by a team of paramedics and EMTs called a Self Care Team. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/Asthma_Assessment_Tool.mp3 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:00:00 PDT 31:32 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, Taigman, asthma, Oakland, preventive Joshua English in conversation with Mike Taigman In this episode we talk with Alameda County AMR General Manager, Mike Taigman about the effort to move away from component scoring for airway management: or rather, intubation succes rate, as a means of assessing our ability to manage airway emergencies. Instead, we are moving toward a method of composite scoring, where the patient becomes the focus of the data collection. http://www.acgov.org/ems/Podcast/Airway_Checklist.mp3 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:00:00 PDT 25:03 EMS, ALCO, Alameda, county, Taigman, airway, checklist, composite, scoring