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A while back… when I was in Medic school, our primary teacher Margo, used to have a saying about those […]

Careers for EMTs

When I first started teaching EMT courses a number of years ago, I had a picture in my mind of

It’s no surprise seeing new EMTs, medics, and, yes, even firefighters go from fit to flab pretty darn quick. To

For some reason, I’m not quite sure why, but being a EMT has become a starting point to either becoming a

Tim Cheves / June 27, 2016

So you couldn’t get enough, huh? Back for more tips and tricks to help you with your airways? Here they

A number of years ago, when I was a fresh-faced EMT student back in Michigan, as part of both Medic

Tim Cheves / June 22, 2016

What happens when your little boy chokes on a piece of chicken and the back blows and abdominal thrusts just

editor / June 8, 2016

I remember waking up at 2 o’clock in the morning to go on a move up to another station. I

With all the election madness, the question occurred to me whether EMS Workers, Firefighters, and other people providing public safety

As many of you know out there in the world of EMT instruction, sometimes we think we got ‘through’ to