Combo Medic

     There was a day that I was trying to get a podcast done, and had a blog post to submit all wrapped up in a busy work day.  In addition to all of this, I was trying to spend time with my family as that is my most important responsibility I have.  Then, in the midst of everything, I see the Podmedic Jamie Davis busting out daily podcasts (multiple avenues) and blogs like it was nobody's business.  I know that I am new and all, but I thought I was a pretty good scheduler of time, and I had none left!  The opportunties I had were limited and there was no current way to do what it was he was doing. Now, I don't want to replicate the work that Jamie Davis is doing, it would be pointless to have my own blog.  But I did want to know how such a busy individual had the opportunity to review, research and develop topics as well as type of narrate these hours worth of content.  So what did I do, I added to Jamie's workload and sent him an e-ma...

I sat in a class once with a very interesting and entertaining individual who took the participants through a world of medical practices that were no longer proven to work.  In this he discussed medications, techniques, and procedures that had lost favor in the medical community, but some facets of the field would not, or could not let them go.  I have been in multiple conversations where I was the sole spokesman against certain techniques, but the argument against removing it was because they had seen it work.  One of the first was the argument of the trendelenburg position.  Dr. Trendelenburg was a famous surgeon in his day and created a position that would make it more feasible to conduct abdominal surgery.  Soon people thought the position would help treat those in hypovolemic shock by increasing pressures back to the heart and brain.  This was a large part of the treatment of hypotensive patients until the past decade.  Even the Doctor that cr...

The #COMBOMEDIC is back after a short hiatus...sorry about the delay, but I took a couple days off to recoup.  And yet, I remain tired...still!  I guess that is a sign, I just don't know of what yet.  There are times in which the significance of the events are overwhelming in and of themselves and yet when you combine them with something else it is even better.  For me this past weekend was just that...a weekend of such significance that it was overwhelming.  Mountain Man Memorial March On Saturday the 20th of April I has the privilege of walking for soldiers that have given their lives in the defense of a grateful nation.  I was asked to participate in the Mountain Man Memorial March and was part of a team that comprised military members, family members, and high school guys and girls.  On this day we took part in a 13.1 mile march around a terrain composed of flat areas and a large amount of mountainous hills.  This isn't supposed to...

Wow, this week has been a difficult week for the country.  If you listen to the KLOVE radio station, they have been talking about the situations this week in Boston and Texas and have been trying to continue providing positive and encouraging radio.  It is really easy to get into the effect of these incidents and lose perspective of what is going on.  The tragedies of this week have been significant.  If you look, we lost several lives and injured many more in the bombings during the Boston Marathon, and several lives were lost and more were injured after a fertilizer fire/explosion in West, Texas.   In addition to that, a Senators office and the Presidential post office received letters that contained a highly potent biological warfare agent named Ricin.  Furthermore, a large business close to where I work was raided and under investigation for defrauding customers across the northern hemisphere and then Boston has been on lock-down all day today ...

I have been at this active blogging environment for about the last two months.  During that time I have written about many topics, and a couple of them were providing updates of scenes that were going on around the country.  The two that I covered almost live were the hostage taking of 5 firefighters in Georgia, and the Boston Marathon explosions this week.  While I have never served as a true PIO, I know a little about the value of publishing accurate information.  I had the opportunity to watch (electronically) the hostage situation play out in Georgia a lot more closely than I was able to do with the marathon explosions, but I knew I had several readers out there that liked to get information together in a single location.  Now, when I started publishing information I was quick to start looking for multiple links to confirm the information that I was publishing, and during the firefighter rescue it was easy because the on-scene sources were great with in...

Hello #COMBOMEDIC follower...sorry about the weekend hiatus.  This weekends lack of posting was brought to you by the our good friend, the GI bug...and that is all I have to say about that! As I was catching up this morning I saw a report that was broadcast on EMS World  related to an event in Santa Rosa California over the weekend. I am not sure if we can ever over express the need for the general public to learn the aspect of how to conduct CPR.  The designers of the new CPR processes have come up with a method that prevents people from having to put their mouth on people in order to limit those detracting factors that were keeping people from doing CPR.  SO WHY SHOULD WE ALL KNOW CPR!!! The hyperlink that I posted above will take you to a story where an 8 year old boy was hit in the chest by a pitch.  He started to take his base when he collapsed along the first base line.  The child was experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.  In the stands ...

Video from Finish Line Boston Fire Live Feed UPDATE - 15 APRIL 2013 - 1934HRS Right now, emergency responders are still checking the area after multiple bombs exploded around the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and a couple of additional devices have been found and disarmed prior to them harming others. Reports now show 2 confirmed deaths in this tragic terrorist attack on American Soil. In addition to the fatalities, dozens more have been injured (too varying degrees)and their conditions are uncertain at this point. Some reports (CNN) state that more than 110 are being treated with 8 critical and 14 serious, but overall unknown. CNN is compiling a list of confirmed statements/actions that are surrounding this evening and those can be found . Evidently, the news sources are announcing that investigators "close to the investigation" are announcing this as terrorism, but no clues are available as to domestic or international because of a lack of informatio...