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Entropy or Why It’s So Hard to Get People to Follow Guidelines

A discussion of why it is so hard to get smart people to control what they do. There is a tremendous pressure toward disorder in the universe, and among physicians, firefighters, and others. It’s one reason why you need to watch what you say around the “kids”.

Chameleon at the beginning and end with Brian Hughley on drums and myself on sax.

Thanks. JY

Transforming Clinical Operations: Lessons from Firefighting Part 2

Second half of my talk. Thanks for listening. JY

The Future of Paramedicine Part 2

Continuation of the discussion with Tom Joyce about the future of Paramedicine. Thanks for listening. JY

The Future of Paramedicine: Part 1

Tom Joyce and I discuss the future of paramedics in the rapidly changing health care environment. This is part 1 and ends around the 22 minute mark with some music.  Thanks for listening. JY

Obtaining Proficiency in Low Frequency High Stress Situations

Discussion of the positives and negatives of experience, and the various tools to use to gain clinical proficiency when actual clinical experience is lacking. A tune I wrote and recorded at the beginning and end. Thanks for listening. I’ve also attached several of the war games scenario sheets we used to train people for these situations.

JY

 

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Mistakes

A discussion of some aspects of decision making, and error prevention. How to get novices to do the right thing and prevent harm.

Thanks for listening. JY

Combined sites

I decided to combine Fire-emsbraintraining.com and clinicalbraintraining.com. You can use either URL. Podcast coming tonight.

Training: Cognitive, Practical, Tactical

Discussion of training, and the different competencies. Cognitive knowledge (what), Practical knowledge (how), Tactical knowledge (how do I do it when someone is dying in front of me). Thanks for listening. JY

Clinical Incident Command System

A discussion of ICS and my idea of applying ICS principles to everyday hospital and EMS based patient care with Tom Joyce of Orange County Fire EMS. Thanks for listening, JY

Problem with echo in original audio file, now fixed and replaced with new file.

Saving the Patient or Saving Resources

A discussion of how to navigate providing your patients and community what they need, while still being cognizant of overusing resources. Also an excerpt from a concert I gave with Brian Hughley a few years ago. Thanks for listening.

JY