I once worked with a prehospital practitioner who at one time worked for a service that drilled 20 minute scene times in their head. If...

I will reluctantly admit that I am an AHA instructor... Whenever I teach ACLS or PALS classes and run students through scenarios, I hear...

Consider a couple possible scenarios that may occur while testing a patient's pupillary reflex: Scenario 1: While shining a light into...

Eyes and Brains Sometimes I choose my blog subjects based off of a subject that I’m going to be teaching, or other times something I just...

A while back I was introduced to a concept called ‘the stages of knowing.’ These three stages are based on the work of Dr. William Perry....

Chest tubes are great. They can overcome all kinds of obstructions in the chest - air (pneumothorax), blood (hemothorax), air and blood...

Once upon a time I had a critical care paramedic as a trainee. This individual had been in EMS for approximately two years, and was an...

When do you consider your patient hypotensive? Many providers would answer with some sort of systolic blood pressure measurement, like...

The patient absolutely cannot wait. Their blood pressure has been dropping for the last several minutes and there is no doubt in your...