EMS Practice Owen T. Traynor, MD, and Mohamed Hagahmed, MD

Drs. Hagahmed and Traynor review a case with paramedic Ed Walkos that resulted in Ed's first cricothyrotomy.

Drs. Mohamed Haghamed and Owen Traynor discuss the care of patients with narrow complex tachycardia. EMs providers in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania can earn 1.0 hours of EMS CME after listening to this podcast. Head over to emspractice.com to read more on this topic and to take the 5 question quiz.

Doctors Hagahmed and Traynor announce that the emspractice.com website is up and running. Currently, 4 episodes of the podcast series can be found here. Each episode has 2 accompanying files. One is a computer-generated transcript of the episodes with time stamps so you can find something you are looking for in the episode. The second file contains supplementary material about the podcast episode. There is also a 5 question quiz about the episode. Pennsylvania EMS clinicians can earn PA EMS C...

Dan Swayze, Vice President for Community Services at the UPMC Health Plan, Christopher Matek, Chief of TriCommunity South EMS, and Owen Traynor discuss community paramedicine. “Emergency medical services (EMS) of the future will be community-based health management that is fully integrated with the overall health care system. It will have the ability to identify and modify illness and injury risks, provide acute illness and injury care and follow-up, and contribute to treatment of ...

Join doctors Mohamed Haghamed, MD, Dave Zimmerman, Pharm D, and Owen Traynor, MD as they discuss the EMS care of the agitated patient and droperidol. The PA ALS protocols 8001-Agitated Behavior/Psychiatric Disorders and 8002- Delirium With Agitated Behavior are reviewed as well.

I speak with Dr. Dan Patterson about Fatigue, Napping and EMS. Dan is a nationally registered paramedic and Fellow of the Academy of EMS (FAEMS). He studies safety in emergency care settings with special emphasis on safety culture, fatigue, shift work, sleep health, teamwork, medical errors and adverse events, and clinician injury in the prehospital EMS setting. You may find out more about Dr. Patterson here.