Vehicular Accidents Mechanism of Injury

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Performing a thorough assessment may take precious time critical for a patient's survival especially for victims of vehicular accidents. In this week's episode of the MedicCast podcast for EMTs and paramedics, host Jamie Davis, the podmedic, tackles mechanisms of injury in motor vehicle accidents. As a follow up on the other week's episode, kinematics of trauma, MVA mechanisms of injury episode shows emergency responders how to do a quick assessment and identify injuries by looking at the type of crash together with other factors to be considered.

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Interview with Dr. Mickey Eisenberg

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A special joint interview segment with Dr. Mickey Eisenberg by MedicCast host Jamie Davis, the podmedic, and Greg Friese of the EMS Educast podcast is featured on this week's episode of the MedicCast. In the program, they discuss about Dr. Eisenberg's book titled, “Resuscitate: How your community can improve survival from sudden cardiac arrest” challenging communities and EMS systems to change the way they look at cardiac arrest, survivability and code management.

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Kinematics of Trauma for Emergency Responders

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This week's episode of the MedicCast features a review on kinematics of trauma. This is an important concept for emergency responders for them to know what injuries to anticipate based on the kind of trauma incident even in the absence of physical manifestations.

Also included in the program are EMS stories in the news and resource links for the tip of the week for reference and future review.

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EMS Spinal Immobilization and Episode 179 of the MedicCast

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Spinal Immobilization is a typical procedure done by emergency responders to trauma patients with potential or actual spinal injury. In this week's episode of the MedicCast, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic discusses the details of spinal immobilization including the criteria for choosing procedure candidates and special considerations given to special cases. Also offered in the program are EMS news and links to sources for future reference.

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Ultrasound for EMS and Episode 178 of the MedicCast

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This week's episode of the MedicCast podcast for EMTs and paramedics features an interview with Brian Dunnigan on ultrasound for EMS, including potential scenarios where the availability of ultrasonography in the prehospital setting would be essential. Also offered in the program are the latest EMS news and links to source sites for future reference.

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The MedicCast is a weekly EMS podcast featuring news, comments, products, interviews, tips and tricks for EMTs, paramedics, EMS students and the like. The MedicCast is a proud member of the ProMed Network.