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Needle Decompression EMS

Needle Decompression EMS

Field Brief: The Slow Death of Needle Thoracostomy

Sep 279 min read

Blood Programs

Blood Programs

Too Close for Blood: The Argument That Hospital Proximity Kills Prehospital Blood Programs — And Why It Doesn't

Sep 249 min read

Push-Dose Epi: The 10-Fold Error Hiding in Your Trauma Bag

Push-Dose Epi: The 10-Fold Error Hiding in Your Trauma Bag

Push-Dose Epi: The 10-Fold Error Hiding in Your Trauma Bag

Sep 218 min read

CPR Surface

CPR Surface

Field Brief: The CPR Surface Debate — Backboards, Beds, and the Fatigue Nobody Trained You For

Sep 188 min read

Intubation

Intubation

Field Brief: Prehospital Intubation Was Never the Problem — Patient Selection Was

Sep 168 min read

Street Medicine: "Stable or Unstable" vs. "Sick or Not Sick"

Street Medicine: "Stable or Unstable" vs. "Sick or Not Sick"

Street Medicine: "Stable or Unstable" vs. "Sick or Not Sick"

Sep 1111 min read

Central Park Medical Unite

Central Park Medical Unite

Unit Spotlight: The Central Park Medical Unit — Fifty Years of Free EMS Inside 843 Acres of Trouble

Sep 49 min read

Whole Blood Reckoning

Whole Blood Reckoning

Field Brief: Pre-Hospital Blood Programs — What TOWAR and SWiFT Just Did to a $500K Program

Aug 218 min read

Narcan Cardiac Arrest

Narcan Cardiac Arrest

Field Brief: Naloxone in Cardiac Arrest — When the Dogma Catches Up to the Street

Jul 38 min read

Heat Emergencies

Heat Emergencies

Field Brief: Cool First, Transport Second — The Phoenix Cold Water Immersion Study & the New Science of Heat Emergencies

Jun 259 min read

Paramedic Training

Paramedic Training

Unit Spotlight: LASD ESD Paramedics

Jun 119 min read

EMS Blood Program

EMS Blood Program

Field Brief: The EMS Blood Reckoning - What SWiFT Actually Says, and What It Doesn't

May 307 min read

Excited Delirium

Excited Delirium

Excited Delirium Is Dead. The Patient Still Codes: A BLS and ALS Guide to Hyperactive Delirium With Severe Agitation

May 2711 min read

Paramedic TXA

Paramedic TXA

The Paramedic's Guide to TXA

May 258 min read

Intraosseous Access

Intraosseous Access

Intraosseous Access: Why Not?

May 2412 min read

Tourniquet

Tourniquet

Field Brief: TCCC 2026 — Tourniquet Conversion, OTFC Out, and the Pediatric Guidelines We Should've Had a Decade Ago

May 2410 min read

Sepsis Hides in Plain Sight

Sepsis Hides in Plain Sight

Sepsis Hides in Plain Sight

May 237 min read

An EMS Guide to Scromiting & Cannabis-Related Emergencies

An EMS Guide to Scromiting & Cannabis-Related Emergencies

An EMS Guide to Scromiting & Cannabis-Related Emergencies

Dec 23, 202533 min read

Field Brief: Xylazine & Emerging Non-Opioid Street Drugs

Field Brief: Xylazine & Emerging Non-Opioid Street Drugs

Field Brief: Xylazine & Emerging Non-Opioid Street Drugs

Dec 10, 202564 min read

Black Flag EMS Scenario Saturday

Black Flag EMS Scenario Saturday

Black Flag EMS Scenario Saturday: Collapse at the Construction Site

Oct 4, 20252 min read

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