Alameda County audioPODcast

In this episode, Mike Taigman, Patrick Lickiss, Elsie Kusel gives insight into the ethical issues surrounding patient restraints...

In this episode, Mike Taigman gives some of the more subtle aspects of managing the pain that we are presented with in the field...

This is part one of a four part series on ethics in EMS. We will grapple with three of the toughest issues that face paramedics and EMTs: pain management, patient restraints, and end of life decisions. This first episode fromes the debate with a story from Mike Taigman about two patients and one d...

In this episode, we talk with base physicians from busy Highland Hospital's ER. They give great background information for the basic anatomy of a base contact...

In this episode, we talk with Jay Goldman, MD of Kaiser and Assistant Medical Director, Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, MD as well as Dr. Senai Kidane (EMS Fellow) and Mike Jacobs, EMT-P (Prehospital Care Coordinator with ALCO EMS). The discussion focuses on the rationale for developing a stroke center sy...

In this episode, we get a small glimpse of the most recent Bay Area Paramedic Journal Club event held on January 21, 2010. The topics discussed include: Back to Basics Airway, presented by Luis Abaunza; Asthma Care, presented by Eric Kilmer and Raven Record; and Zoll's Autopulse, presented by Dave...

In this episode I leave the studio to talk with Mike Gibson and Wellington Jackson how they are helping inner city youth in Alameda County find alternatives to violence, incarceration and poverty. The Bay EMT and Camp Sweeney programs are a way for Alameda County EMS to extend its reach into the com...

In this episode we talk with Alameda County AMR General Manager, Mike Taigman about an innovative approach to managing asthmatic patients in Alameda County with a proactive approach to identifying patients at risk for exacerbation of chronic asthma. Using a simple assessment and education tool, par...

In this episode we talk with Alameda County AMR General Manager, Mike Taigman about the effort to move away from component scoring for airway management: or rather, intubation succes rate, as a means of assessing our ability to manage airway emergencies. Instead, we are moving toward a method of co...

In this episode we talk with Alameda County EMS Disaster Preparedness Coordinator, Jim Morrissey abour TEMS and the movement to adopt an earlier engagement with the scene with a shadowing SWAT or police escort in order to better care for victims of active shooter incidents...