Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast

First responders see the unique, the unusual, the horrifying and the heartbreaking on a regular basis. On some calls, all the breaks go your way. On other calls, anything that can go wrong, will go wr...

20 Jul 202256min

What do you do when you receive a patient who is in critical cardiac condition after being in jail? Did they already have a heart disease that is getting worse? Or was it something they took? Or was i...

15 Jun 202239min

Did you misread that title? Maybe you did and maybe you didn't. Emergency medicine requires our professionals to work from limited information and rely on instincts and assessment to diagnose and trea...

18 Mai 202241min

First responders and clinicians often see things that are unimaginable to the average person as a part of their jobs. Yes, this is the nature of the work, but first responders and clinicians are human...

20 Apr 202249min

When a tornado strikes and causes a mass casualty incident (MCI), how does the team integrate itself into a larger team of first responders doing a variety of different jobs? How does the team arrive ...

16 Mar 202249min

Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Pediatric airway management is always a stressful procedure, particularly during transport when the risk of dislodgement increases. That fear of dislodging...

16 Feb 202233min

Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast The second of a two part series, our team recaps the pertinent data from our flight team, discusses where their assumptions were wrong, prescribes solutions...

12 Jan 202232min

Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast The anchoring effect is a cognitive bias that describes the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the "anchor...

22 Des 202133min