From Precons to EMS 10 Awards and Nightwatch! #EMSToday2015

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 What an awesome day at EMS Today 2015! Kelly and I headed over to the Convention Center to get registered and ran into our very good friends Nick Nudell (@RunMedic), Chris Montera (@geekymedic), and Anne Robinson Montera (@CaringAnne). Nick and I started the EKG Club many years ago as an email-based discussion group. It is now a thriving Facebook group that you should check out! We’ve also done some interesting consulting work together in the implantable medical device industry. Chris and Anne are one of the “power couples” of EMS and are very influential in Community Paramedicine (more on that later). Advanced Airway Cadaver Lab After getting registered we headed over to the Advanced Airway Cadaver Lab which is put on by the Paragon Medical Education Group (@ParagonMedEd). It was really great because Kelly and I had met Jim Logan at a previous EMS 10 Awards event and got along great. I had also recently met Joe Holley, M.D. (@joeholley) on Twitter so they were expecting us. What an awesome experience! As a side note, social media has become an indispensable tool at medical conferences! Everyone in the cadaver lab was dressed in full PPE including mask, gown, gloves, and hair covers. So it was a surprise when I heard a British accent say, “Are you that blogger Tom?” I said, “Yes, I am!” Well guess what? It was team London! We started chatting and I couldn’t help but tell them how much respect I h...
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