A 67 -year-old man presents to a busy emergency department with acute chest pain and shortness of breath. The following ECG is obtained, but he leaves without being seen because of the long wait time ... rebrand.ly/2hoq68f

Plan to fail. Set yourself up for success. But plan for failure. Because if you've planned for failure, you're prepared for its arrival. None of us succeed 100% of the time. Especially not in paramedicine. The landscape is too chaotic, uncontrolled, and unpredictable.

There's a concept now in burnout. Burnout may not be due to the stress of the job itself. It may actually be a mismatch of expectations between the job we thought we were trained to do and the job we actually do. You had an expectation that paramedicine was going to be...

I don't think you can talk about any ultra endurance event at this point without just reminding people about electrolytes. If you respond to a sick, altered runner, consider hyponatremia and don't just assume that the problem is simply dehydration.

Paramedics help protect firefighters on the front lines of wildfires 9news.com/article/news/l…

Geoff Murphy Founder of Master Your Medics joined us on our most recent episode and talked about how for him the goal is not prefection, instead it's thoughtful imprefection. Quote- "I'm in a point where I feel okay being wrong...

A 60-year-old man is being transported by EMS to the emergency department for acute chest pain. The following ECG is transmitted prior to arrival as a “CODE STEMI” and brought to you for interpretation ... rebrand.ly/feptfzp

Here’s a deadly #ECG of a 60-year-old man who presented to the ER in shock What’s the diagnosis?

A 69 yo man arrives at the ED with SOB and profuse sweating. The ECG obtained shows sinus tachycardia at a rate of ~ 130 bpm with a RBBB. The interpretation, both by the ECG machine and the clinical team, labels it simply as sinus tachycardia with RBBB. rebrand.ly/h828zxr

#ECG Shark Fin Sign! 🦈 Be able to recognize it and save a life!

DEN emergency crews responded to an aircraft incident earlier this evening at gate C38. All passengers were safely evacuated from the plane. 12 people were transported to local hospitals with minor injuries. DEN operations are normal. Refer to americanair for further details.

A 46 yo reorts feeling a rapid heart rate before losing consciousness. She has a few witnessed episodes in the emergency department and is noted to have brief episodes of polymorphic VT that result in syncope but self terminate... rebrand.ly/ooj55ae

A 76-year-old man presents to the emergency department with shortness of breath, severe weakness, diaphoresis, and confusion. The following ECG is obtained on arrival.....ecgweekly.com/weekly-workout…

No capes, just courage. 💜 Join us in thanking the DEN First Responders!

A 61 yo woman with PMHx of prior MI presents with acute midsternal chest pain that radiates to the left shoulder. Symptoms have been intermittent for the fast few weeks, without clear alleviating or aggravating symptoms. The following ECG...:ecgweekly.com/weekly-workout…

A 79-year-old man is sent to a community hospital for evaluation of bradycardia discovered at his nursing facility. He is ultimately transferred to a tertiary care facility for consideration of pacemaker placement after the following ECG is obtained:ecgweekly.com/weekly-workout…

A 16 yo male is referred to the emergency department from a primary care clinic with concern for STEMI. He has no known past medical history. At the clinic, he reported nonspecific chest pain, but upon arrival to the ED he is asymptomatic......ecgweekly.com/weekly-workout…

Clinicians can enhance patient understanding by using numerical data instead of verbal probabilities, consistent denominators, absolute risk comparisons, and clear context for unfamiliar data types. ja.ma/42JRNGk

A 36-year-old man with hypertension and regular cannabis use (edibles, ~3x/week) is referred from clinic to the ED for chest pain and an abnormal ECG. His first ECG during pain is read as an anterolateral STEMI and is shown below....ecgweekly.com/weekly-workout…

Sam Ghali video: A 55-year-old woman complaining of “severe indigestion” drsmithsecgblog.com/sam-ghali-vide… Sam Ghali, M.D.