EMS Cast: Advanced Continuing Education for Paramedics, EMTs & Prehospital Care Providers

By Ross Orpet, Paramedic turned EMS Physician

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Paramedic training is over, you’re in the front seat now. Whether day 1 or day 1,000 you can’t shake the fear you’re underprepared. You were taught to systematically decide if A... do B. But what if “A” wasn’t in the book? The truth is each emergency call is too unique to teach the right response to every situation. We need to go beyond algorithmic thinking and understand deeper principles, the WHY behind the algorithm. When every decision counts you want to rely on a framework that will guide you when things don’t make sense. EMS cast is your resource to build that framework. Through discussions with experts, review of evidence-based best practices, and real-world case studies we teach you one step past what you learned in paramedic school. But all of this advanced education is connected back to the guiding principles that answer the question- “at the end of the day, what actually matters to the patient I have in front of me?” Our mission is to elevate your practice and help you improve patient outcomes in every emergency situation. You may not feel ready, you may not feel like you know enough, but by understanding the guiding principles of emergency medicine you can become an expert EMS clinician. Because what you do matters.

Episode Date
Life Over Limb: Field Amputation, Preparing for the Unthinkable
Nov 20, 2024
The Untold Impact of EMS on Organ Donation: Transforming Tragedy into Hope
Nov 04, 2024
Values-Driven Leadership Within A Just Culture- Chris Pfingsten from EMS 20/20
Oct 21, 2024
Are They Choking? Esophageal Foreign Body
Oct 07, 2024
10 Lessons From A Real Austere Rescue That Apply To You, No Matter Where You Work
Sep 23, 2024
Bonus: A Better BVM? How I Built This EMS Cast Style- A Crazy Story About an Emergency Nurses Invention and Battle to Save Lives and Prevent Harm.
Sep 16, 2024
The Critical Four Minutes: AMAX4 framework for Anaphylaxis
Sep 09, 2024
From Errors to Excellence: Master Your Medics Geoff Murphy on the role of mistakes in EMS education
Aug 26, 2024
Poisons of the Sea: Not Just a Coastal Problem
Aug 12, 2024
The Critically Sick Runner: Unraveling the Mystery at an Ultra-endurance Event with Dr. Whitney Barrett
Jul 29, 2024
EMCRITs Scott Weingart on How to Master the Resuscitation
Jul 15, 2024
Building Better Providers: Eric Bauer, Lessons from FlightBridgeED
Jul 01, 2024
Mushrooms: The Perils and Pleasures with Toxicologist Dr. Nik Matsler
Jun 15, 2024
Electrical Injuries and Lightning strikes
Jun 01, 2024
Stroke Care on the Streets, What Actually Matters? Bridging Research and Real-World EMS
May 15, 2024
The Critically Burned Patient Part 2- What You learned About Fluids Was Wrong, A Simpler Approach
May 01, 2024
The Critically Burned Patient - Part 1
Apr 15, 2024
Rethinking Priorities in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - Which Comes First Epi or Airway?
Apr 02, 2024
Toxic Alcohols: Hidden Danger in Everyday Products and an Everyday Call
Mar 15, 2024
Art of Laryngoscopy- The SALAD technique (Suction-Assisted Laryngoscopy and Airway Decontamination)
Mar 01, 2024
The Truth about Mechanical CPR Devices: What the Data Really Says
Feb 15, 2024
Neonatal Resuscitation: Conquering the Fear, Step By Step Guide For Emergency Providers
Feb 01, 2024
Crush Injury and Crush Syndrome- Is What You Learned Folklore?
Jan 15, 2024
Lessons From a Sage: Interview with Jim Barrick
Jan 01, 2024
Postpartum Hemorrhage- What To Do When the Bleeding Won't Stop
Dec 15, 2023
Delivering Nuchal Cords, Breech Presentations, Shoulder Dystocias- Field Obstetrics, What To Do When Things Go Sideways
Nov 30, 2023
Which is Better, Midazolam IV, IM or IN?
Nov 15, 2023
Non-Invasive Ventilation - Do You Understand the Physiology?
Nov 01, 2023
Can End Tidal CO2 Predict Mortality in Hemorrhagic Shock? Part 2 with Paramedic Courtney ”Coco” Wham
Oct 15, 2023
What Can End Tidal CO2 Tell Us About Hemorrhagic Shock? Part 1 with Trauma Surgeon Dr. Eric Campion
Oct 01, 2023
Recognizing Individual Differences: Personalized Approaches to Pain Management
Sep 15, 2023
Legendary Trauma Surgeon Dr. Gene Moore - how REBOA is changing trauma resuscitative care
Sep 01, 2023
Are you sure you're prepared for your next intubation? Dr. Stacey Trent Reviews the most up-to-date literature for intubation best practices.
Aug 15, 2023
Disasters Don't Just Involve Adults. Are You Prepared For a Pediatric Disaster? Get Prepared with Dr. Jeffery Upperman
Aug 01, 2023
It's Not Just Back Pain. Spinal Emergencies with Dr. Bo Burns.
Jul 15, 2023
Errors, Needs, and Communication in The Pediatric Trauma Call with Pediatric Surgeon Dr. David Bliss
Jul 01, 2023
Why ECMO in the Trauma patient?
Jun 17, 2023
A Better Way to Triage? New Trauma Guidelines from the American College of Surgeons
Jun 01, 2023
Is nitroglycerin dangerous in inferior STEMIs or were we mislead? Separating fact from fiction.
May 15, 2023
Do You Smell Something? Deadly Gases - Hydrogen Sulfide and Nerve Agent Poisonings
May 01, 2023
Cyanide Toxicity
Apr 15, 2023
The GCS Sucks! Why it’s a useless number and what we should use instead.
Apr 01, 2023
Bonus Episode: Serotonin Syndrome Q&A - how to recognize and treat serotonin syndrome Q&A with paramedic Will Barry and tox fellow Nik Matsler
Mar 22, 2023
Serotonin Syndrome - Dos and Don'ts, Toxicologist Dr. Nik Matsler dissects an actual case
Mar 15, 2023
Your Mental Health Matters - Let’s talk about it.
Mar 01, 2023
Should we be giving steroids in cardiac arrest? With pharmacist Lance Ray.
Feb 15, 2023
Dangers of Lights and Sirens plus more. 2023 NAEMSP recap.
Feb 01, 2023
The Harmful Side of Diabetic Medications, Do You Know What You're Looking For? - with emergency pharmacist Lance Ray
Jan 15, 2023
Mac 3 vs Mac 4 - Which blade should you use?
Dec 31, 2022
You Were Taught Wrong, Traumas Not Algorithmic. Learn The Ideal Trauma Call.
Dec 15, 2022
The Sick Asthmatic- You're thinking about it wrong, this is so different from other causes of respiratory distress
Nov 30, 2022
What did you just take? Novel Drugs of Abuse with Dr. Matsler
Oct 31, 2022
Don't Miss Something Important, Your Physical Exam Matters
Sep 30, 2022
The Physiologically Difficulty Airway - Part 4: Right Ventricular Failure, This Ones Scary
Aug 31, 2022
Snake Bites
Aug 17, 2022
Deadly Cocaine Overdose, Do You Know The Antidote? They Didn't Teach Me This In Paramedic School.
May 31, 2022
The Physiologically Difficulty Airway - Part 3: Severe Metabolic Acidosis
May 02, 2022
The Physiologically Difficulty Airway - Part 2: Hypotension
Mar 31, 2022
Narrow Pulse Pressure as a Predictor of ED Thoracotomy in Trauma?
Feb 28, 2022
The Physiologically Difficult Airway - Part 1: Hypoxia
Feb 01, 2022
Does your radio work? In the middle of an MCI is too late to find out.
Dec 31, 2021
Don't Miss Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Nov 02, 2021
Your Run Report Matters More Than You Think
Sep 30, 2021
When the provider becomes the patient
Aug 31, 2021
You're Not Treating Seizures Correctly. Pharmacist Lance Ray on Why Dosing is so Important.
Jul 26, 2021
Dirty Epi drip - We Don't Call it Dirty For Nothin'
May 31, 2021
Digoxin Toxicity and Other Cardiac Glycosides with Dr. Rague
Apr 30, 2021
MCI - Don't Be Unprepared for the Unexpected
Apr 01, 2021
One of the Sickest Patients- Calcium Channel and Beta Blocker Overdose with Dr. Camarena-Michel.
Mar 01, 2021
Stuck Outside- Hypothermia with Dr. Martin Musi
Jan 31, 2021
Simple Approach to Caustic Ingestions
Dec 31, 2020
Why You Can't Oxygenate - A lot of ARDS and a little bit of COVID
Nov 30, 2020
Misdiagnosed- in-depth look at how problems with blood sugar gets missed
Oct 19, 2020
Making the call - tips on calling for medical direction
Sep 18, 2020
The WTF Approach to the Tracheostomy
Aug 10, 2020
Confusion Leads To Harm- Clear Communication Counts
Jul 08, 2020
The Critically Sick Kid
Jun 06, 2020
Penetrating Neck Wounds
May 01, 2020
Large Vessel Occlusions (LVO)
Apr 02, 2020
Toxidromes
Mar 10, 2020
Why We Started A Podcast
Mar 10, 2020