EMS on AIR Podcast
EMS on AIR is an education and entertainment podcast designed to keep healthcare providers safe, informed, and prepared. The EMS on AIR Podcast was originally launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to communicate efficiently and directly with EMS personnel. Now, we’ve started branching out to all things healthcare but still tailored with the national EMS audience in mind. This podcast has begun to transform into a bridge between subject matter experts, the most recent data, and the EMS providers who make a difference every day in the field.
The EMS on AIR Podcast is hosted by Geoff Lassers and Dr. Robert Dunne.
Geoff Lassers began his career as a first responder in 2002. Since then, he has earned a depth of experience as a professional firefighter, paramedic, EMS instructor, and in the hospital as an ED tech. Geoff has been a professional firefighter/paramedic and EMS instructor with the West Bloomfield Fire Department since 2004. In 2020, the EMS on AIR Podcast was launched to provide up-to-date information to the local, state, and national EMS community regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as express best practices. Since then, the EMS on AIR Podcast has expanded to all topics related to prehospital care.
Robert Dunne, M.D., FACEP, FAEMS, is an Emergency Medicine and EMS physician located in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Dunne is currently the EMS Medical Director of the Detroit Fire Department, as well as a professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University, and directs the School of Medicine’s pre-hospital programming, including Emergency Medical Services, Preparedness, EMS Research and more. He is also program director of the Emergency Medical Services fellowship. Additionally, Dr. Dunne is the elected medical director of the Detroit East Medical Control Authority, the local version of the state-designated entity that supervises all pre-hospital care in Detroit and eastern Wayne County.
EMS on AIR Podcast
E:29 COVID Update for EMS - We're seeing a dramatic spike in the numbers of infections. - July 1, 2020
Like many other States across the nation, Michigan has begun to experience a COVID-19 spike over the last few weeks. In this episode, Dr. McGraw and Dr. Faust discuss the recent accelerated rise in infection and the impact on our EMS, hospital and social communities. As you’ll hear the doctors say multiple times, maintaining social distancing, wearing a mask and not going to work when you’re sick will help knock down the spike and get back to the positive trends that we had been experiencing until recently. More importantly, these three primary things are likely the only way to avoid another lockdown here in Michigan. Then we move onto a more positive aspect of the pandemic. Dr. McGraw tells us about the incredible impact that our local EMS and healthcare providers have made by volunteering their time with things like testing thousands of people in all sorts of facilities in an effort to track the spread of this virus.
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