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Hi, I'm Bob Sullivan. Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I am an educator with a community college paramedic program and work as a field provider in the Wilmington, DE area. I also have a column at EMS 1 and have worked as a paramedic with a variety of delivery models. I hope to share tips that EMS providers can apply, for students to succeed, and for educators to engage learners.

SCA & Opioid Overdose, Pulmonary Embolism on EMS 1

Over at EMS 1 I have two clinical articles up. In How To Treat Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Opioid Overdose I wrote about how to tell the difference between ineffective breathing from sudden cardiac arrest versus opioid overdose and how the management is different. In 4 Things EMS Providers Need To Know About Pulmonary Embolism …

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Book Review: Community Health Paramedic

I had the opportunity to read a copy of the new AAOS Community Health Paramedic textbook: image credit It provides concise overview of the logistical, interpersonal and clinical aspects of preventive healthcare and chronic disease management. I think it provides a good foundation for paramedics interested in working as a community paramedic, and also a …

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3 Things I Learned From Making It Stick

Peter Brown and Henry Roediger’s Making it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning describes how to become productive learners. It covers learning classroom material and skills, uses examples from schools, businesses and athletics, the concepts are very applicable to EMS students and educators. Here are three things I took away from Making it Stick: 1. …

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Heart Failure and Pneumonia

I wrote two articles on EMS 1 about respiratory conditions that are easily misdiagnosed. Heart failure and pneumonia can both cause respiratory distress, and both may cause crackles and wheezing. They also frequently occur in elderly patients with a host of other chronic medical problems. Waveform capnography can help differentiate them, and here’s how: 4 …

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Active Learning About Capnography in Paramedic Chief

Yours truly has an article in the spring edition Paramedic Chief about how to use active learning to teach about capnography. I am fortunate to work at a school that encourages creativity and active methods of instruction, and I wrote the article to give educators some tools to try something besides the traditional lecture from …

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