Alert Medic 1

In a previously recorded series, Mustafa talks about the human factor in EMS with two EMS leaders from the midwest.

The Alert Medic 1 crew, including the AM1 medical director, Dr. David Vitberg, and Brian Spoelhof, the team's pharmacist, get together to complete their series on the pharmaceutical management of traumatic brain injury,

The Alert Medic 1 Team meets with Arron Berry, who is a flight nurse with the Johns Hopkins Lifeline Critical Transport Team. Various topics regarding flight medicine, including changes in a patient's physiology during flight.

The Alert Medic 1 team gathers with Dr. David Vitberg and Dr.Brian Spoelhof to record the second part of their pharmaceutical management of traumatic brain injury series. In this episode, the discuss glucose use in the presence of TBI, along with the various agents involved in rapid sequence intubation (RSI), including fentanyl, etomidate, ketamine, midazolam, succinylcholine, rocuronium, vecuronium, lidocaine, and atropine.

The AM1 Crew gathers to discuss various mental health topics in a more relaxed setting from our usual recordings. The crew recorded an editorial that discusses various topics including EMS Provider mental health, barriers to retrieving mental health care, and the power of positive thinking.

The AM1 crew along with their medical director, Dr. David Vitberg, meet to discuss TXA and it's role within prehospital medicine. Topics discussed include normal blood and clot physiology, the relationship of TXA, TPA, fibrin, thrombin, along with a robust discussion of recent studies that researched the efficacy of TXA. The discussion concludes with a discussion on the concept of a "Number Needed to Treat."

The AM1 crew returns to discuss the physiology of Opioids and a recent publication regarding complications secondary to Naloxone administration.

The AM1 crew completes it's series on Airway Management with their medical director, Dr. David Vitberg.

The AM1 crew discusses airway management in the 4th part in their airway management series.

The AM1 team meets with their medical director, Dr. David Vitberg, to record part 3 of their Airway Management series.