Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest - Part 2

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Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest - Part 2

The UC Division of EMS has recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate EMS Week 2016.  We are honored to be able to engage EMS Providers throughout the world with this forum.  If you practice pre-hospital medicine, we would like to say thank you and that we appreciate everything you do to provide a high level of care to ill and injured patients in a wide variety of austere environments.  For this podcast, we were joined by Dr. Dustin Calhoun, Associate Director of the UC Division of EMS, as well as two of this year’s UC EMS Fellows, Dr. Mike Bohanske and Dr. Justin Benoit.

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Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front

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Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front

The UC Division of EMS has recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate EMS Week 2016.  We are honored to be able to engage EMS Providers throughout the world with this forum.  If you practice pre-hospital medicine, we would like to say thank you and that we appreciate everything you do to provide a high level of care to ill and injured patients in a wide variety of austere environments.  For this podcast, we were joined by Dr. Jay Johannigman, Chief of the Division of Trauma and Critical Care at the University of Cincinnati.  Dr. Johannigman has over thirty years of military experience which includes 6 deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.  Dr. Johannigman joined us to discuss how the military experience has changed civilian trauma care in the United States.    

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Pre-Hospital STEMI Care

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Pre-Hospital STEMI Care

The UC Division of EMS has recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate EMS Week 2016.  We are honored to be able to engage EMS Providers throughout the world with this forum.  If you practice pre-hospital medicine, we would like to say thank you and that we appreciate everything you do to provide a high level of care to ill and injured patients in a wide variety of austere environments.  For this podcast, we were joined by Dr. Tim Smith, an Interventional Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.  Dr. Smith joined us to discuss our region’s partnership with the American Heart Association’s Mission Lifeline program to bring a regionalized system of care for STEMI patients to our area.  

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Pre-Hospital Stroke Care

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Pre-Hospital Stroke Care

Pre-hospital stroke care begins with a quick, simple assessment tool used to help identify patients that are suffering a stroke.  In Southwest Ohio, this tool is the Cincinnati Pre-hospital Stroke Scale (CPSS).  There are three simple components of the CPSS – facial droop, arm drift, and slurred speech.  When assessing for facial droop, it is best to ask patients to bear their teeth.  Arm drift is assessed by asking the patient to hold both arms outstretched in front of them with their palms facing up.  If one arm drifts down or one hand rotates to a palm-down position, this aspect of the scale is positive.  Lastly, ask the patient to repeat a sentence to assess for slurred speech or any other type of speech abnormality.

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