As you already know, in the months when we have a 5th Monday, we have an extra airway series episode. This month, the team is talking Laryngoscopy. Be sure to head to our Prehospital Paradigm Podcast YouTube channel to see the team demonstrate each of the skills discussed on this extra episode.

This is the final episode of our "Neonatal Resuscitation for EMS" series. We were joined by Arielle Olicker, MD. Thanks to the Willoughby Fire Department for hosting this month's live show. If you would like to host one of our live shows, message us!

In addition to providing clinical care in the NICU, Dr. Olicker is part of the team providing follow-up care to our NICU graduates at the Neonatal Extended Outpatient Clinic. Dr. Olicker serves as the medical director for Neonatal Critical Care Transport and is the neonatal director of the Synagis administration program at UH Rainbow.

The crew and Dr. Olicker continue the conversation of undersstanding the neonatal patient, equipment, protocols and emotions. They start to wrap up the discussion in Part 3 as they prepare for the live podcast!

Dr. Olicker is still with the team for Part 2. The team discusses the decision of transporting a neonate patient to the closest hospital vs. a facility with inhouse neonatal specialty care services as well as complications with the ductus arteriosus as well as the difficult decision of determining a the viability of a neonatal patient's viability for EMS.

Dr. Ariel Olicker, the medical director for Neonatal Critical Care Transport, joins the team for some practical conversation about understanding and being more comfortable with neonatal patients. Since traditional EMS doesn't encounter these patients regularly, the goal is to simplify understanding this patient category.

This month, we were live from the Chagrin Valley Fire Department. We discussed air medical care with Kyle Schnarrs, Flight Nurse, and Nathan Brazytis, Flight Paramedic, from the UH AirMed critical care transport system. We talk how to become a flight paramedic/nurse, day-in-the-life, as well as just how much goes on in preparation for flight, plus so much more!

In Part 3 of our discussion with crew members of UH AirMed, They wind up the recorded sessions discussion catching up on loose ends of the discussion, cricothyrotomy, laryngoscopy, the various drugs the helicopter carries and the use of blood on the aircraft.

UH MedAir's Kyle Schnarrs, Flight Nurse and Nathan Brazytis, Flight Paramedic continue to talk about the airmedical transport system. First, they address the medical brief that can be helpfu to the communications specialists and the flight crew, distinctions between VFR flying and IFR flying for the crew, patients needing LVAD transportation as well as the most recent billing rules. What is practical?