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Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles - Advanced Continuing Education for Paramedics, EMTs & Prehospital Care Providers

Ross Orpet, Paramedic turned EMS Physician
Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles - Advanced Continuing Education for Paramedics, EMTs & Prehospital Care Providers
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  • Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles - Advanced Continuing Education for Paramedics, EMTs & Prehospital Care Providers

    Your Checklist Is Making You Worse: Why Pilots Use Checklists and Paramedics Don't

    31/05/2026 | 1h 6 mins.
    A checklist should reduce cognitive load. So why does yours make things worse? Airline pilot and safety officer Glenn Fisher breaks down how aviation refined checklists over decades of crash data and human factors research — from verification-only flows to abnormal read-and-do procedures to defining the criteria for what should actually earn a spot on the card.

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    NASA papers on checklist design-
    Human Factors of Flight-Deck Checklists: The Normal Checklist

    COCKPIT CHECKLISTS: CONCEPTS, DESIGN, AND USE

    Design Guidance for Emergency and Abnormal Checklists in Aviation
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    Pediatric Sepsis with Dr. Peter Antevy

    21/05/2026 | 32 mins.
    Pediatric sepsis is easy to miss because the first hour often looks ordinary. Kids compensate, until they don't. In this episode, Will Berry talks with Dr. Peter Antevy about the case that still bothers him and why fluids, vasopressors, antibiotics, and hospital feedback all have to be treated as one resuscitation system.

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    How to Build Procedural Skills - That Actually Stick

    14/05/2026 | 1h 37 mins.
    Most EMS skills training creates an illusion of competence. You drill a procedure, check a box, and move on. But what does the research actually show about competency and retention?

    Dr. Jason Hine (EM physician, SimKit founder) breaks down the actual science of procedural skill acquisition: S-curves, encoding and consolidation, retrieval practice, and why expensive simulation labs often underperform cheap, high-rep lo-fi tools.

    Plus: a big announcement about SimKit and the Paramedic Confidence Builder.

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    SimKit - https://simkit.co

    Made to Stick - https://amzn.to/4d5B5qA
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    How to Fail Better in EMS: A Framework for Growth

    28/04/2026 | 16 mins.
    Stephanie Suzadail's favorite word is "fail." She'll tell you why and how we should embrace it.

    In this episode she walks through the difference between failure that builds you and failure that breaks you. Why Sisyphus is a warning, not a role model. Why the best clinicians you'll ever work with have made bigger mistakes than you have. Why high-functioning organizations report mistakes ten times more often than average ones. Why self-identified perfectionists only ever climb to "moderately successful." 

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    The Call Nobody Trained You For — Jim Schmidt on Domestic Violence Recognition

    22/04/2026 | 1h 12 mins.
    Most medics walk onto a domestic violence scene armed with instinct and not much else. Jim Schmidt thought 20 years in the fire service had prepared him for anything — until he had to identify his stepdaughter Gabby Petito's body in 2021. In the months and years after he realized how little EMS is prepared to recognize and treat domestic violence victims. What he's learned since has rewritten what first responders should be doing on these calls. Jim walks us through the red flags, why strangulation may leave no external marks but signals a 750% jump in homicide risk, how to document, how to treat and talk to the patient, and what patterns we can recognize.

    Resources

    DomesticShelters.org — find local DV/SA orgs by address

    National DV Hotline — 1-800-799-SAFE · text START to 88788

    JEMS article by Jim Schmidt on educating first responders to recognize domestic violence: https://www.jems.com/ems-training/domestic-violence-educating-first-responders/ 

    Jim Hopper, PHD on the neurobiology of trauma and sexual assault: https://www.youtube.com/@JimHopperPhD 

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About Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles - Advanced Continuing Education for Paramedics, EMTs & Prehospital Care Providers
Paramedic training is over, you’re in the front seat now. Whether day 1 or day 1,000 you can’t shake the fear you’re underprepared. You were taught to systematically decide if A... do B. But what if “A” wasn’t in the book? The truth is each emergency call is too unique to teach the right response to every situation. We need to go beyond algorithmic thinking and understand deeper principles, the WHY behind the algorithm. When every decision counts you want to rely on a framework that will guide you when things don’t make sense. Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles is your resource to build that framework. Through discussions with experts, review of evidence-based best practices, and real-world case studies we teach you one step past what you learned in paramedic school. But all of this advanced education is connected back to the guiding principles that answer the question- “at the end of the day, what actually matters to the patient I have in front of me?” Our mission is to elevate your practice and help you improve patient outcomes in every emergency situation. You may not feel ready, you may not feel like you know enough, but by understanding the guiding principles of emergency medicine you can become an expert EMS clinician. Because what you do matters.Loud & Clear: EMS Guiding Principles is an EMS Cast LLC production
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