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Hurricane Florence Update 1 with Becky DePodwin
This is a special extra episode on the upcoming landfall of Hurricane Florence which will impact the U.S. East Coast in the region of North and South Carolina sometime Friday, September 14, 2018. We brought on disaster weather expert Becky DePodwin to talk about the weather outlook and potential hazards from the storm.
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Mountain Rescue with Wilderness PA James Corbin part 1
We talk about the various needs of international mountain rescue with Physician’s Assistant and Paramedic James Corbin. He’s a longtime listener who reached out to us to suggest a topic for the call. He began his EMS career as a volunteer EMT and paramedic in Wheaton, Maryland before heading off to learn about rock climbing and joining the Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group in Virginia’s Shenandoah and Allegheny Mountains.
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CPR Airway Management Research with Dr. Joe Holley
On this episode, we bring back Dr. Joe Holley to talk some more about the groundbreaking research he’s been involved with on airway management in cardiac arrest. He and the team he was working with looked at the effects of different types of airway management to maintain an intrathoracic vacuum during CPR to facilitate better blood flow into the brain.
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Paragon Medical Group Cadaver Training and Research Update
Dr. Joe Holley comes on for a special bonus episode of the Disaster Podcast to talk about recent training events run by Paragon Medical Education Group including a trauma cadaver lab in Mississippi. Then Joe drops a quick teaser about some ground-breaking research into CPR, Ventilation, and Cardiac Arrest. Co-hosts Sam Bradley, Jamie Davis, and disaster weather expert Kyle Nelson join Joe on this episode.
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Summer Weather Emergencies with Kyle Nelson
This summer has a been rolling past as quickly as it always does but it’s also been rather active from a weather standpoint. In this episode, out disaster weather expert Kyle Nelson talks about some of the devastating weather-related incidents that impacted the U.S. and the rest of the world this summer.
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Planning a Major USAR Training Event with David McPartland
On this special follow-up episode, we have David McPartland, an EMS Captain at Berkley Fire Department. He and a colleague, Captain Linda Buell from Oakland Fire Department, participated in the planning of the FEMA USAR training we covered recently in a double episode with Dr. Joe Holley and Memphis paramedic Patrick McDevitt.
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Thailand Cave Rescue Discussion with Cave Diver Bob Wilson
In this very timely episode of the Disaster Podcast, we take a look at the extreme technical rescue involved in the recent Thailand cave rescue. As we rejoice that all the boys and their coach were rescued, it is time to talk about the operational aspects of what it took to pull off this rescue.
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Wilderness and Disaster Pharmacology Concerns
This week we look at Wilderness EMS Pharmacology. Nancy Pietroski is our guest this evening for the podcast along with Dr. Seth Hawkins rejoining us for this special featured segment from the Wilderness EMS Textbook. Nancy was the primary author for the textbook's chapter on Wilderness EMS pharmacology.
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