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Happy Holidays!

Wishing You and Yours a Wonderful and Safe Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!

Introducing Too Much Fun

A few months ago, we promised you an opportunity to have a little well deserved fun and pick up some very diverse continuing education. 30 For $20 - No Foolin' begins April 1st, 2022, for thirty consecutive days of fun and CE. Each day we will host a one-hour program that provides solid education from a variety of current topics, presented in a fun, laid back format. You will receive a CE certificate for each day you attend. Each ‘episode’ will continue to be available for 30 days after its first appearance.

$20 for 30 hours of great continuing education? Wow, that's only 66 cents a day!

The best part of this offering is the ‘fun’ part. If 500 EMS personnel sign-up, we will deliver a great incentive to the training. That is…if only 0.7142857142857143% of the EMS personnel in Texas register for this event, we unlock a prize package that provides a handy door prize each day, three $250 gift cards, and the Grand Prize ‘No Foolin’ Watch Party for one winner and 24 friends. (This is where you are supposed to collectively say "Woo Hoo!", but 'Yee Haw' would work as well.) Hey, that’s better odds than winning the lottery and the door prizes are free, with everyone having an equal shot at winning them.

Some of the ‘30 for $20’ content is pulled from previous Public Servant Solutions lectures that have been offered in CE programs; lessons broadcasted live that we have delivered internationally in the past; at conferences; and some has been written for this project. All presentations provide a solid, empirical, well researched topic, but is delivered in a light-hearted fun manner that is a bit more relaxed than the usual CE offering. Each 'episode' is a lecture providing at least one hour of fun, accurate, mostly socially acceptable content covering a wide range of BLS and ALS content, with a little Critical Care thrown in for good measure! This programming is suitable for EMTs, Paramedics, small children, pets, and most farm animals. Everyone (even your cousin who everyone in the family says "is a little slow") will get something out of this!

So, sign up today, tell all your work friends, tell them to tell their work friends. Share this event on your social media. Unlock the prize package worth thousands of dollars. You can sign up via the ‘Featured Course 2’ page (under Training) on our website, or follow this direct link to the 30 for $20 Course Bundle on the Public Servant Solutions Learning Management System. Sign up began December 1, so let’s get moving. “There’s plastic gold in them there CE’s!”

For those that visited our booth at the Texas EMS Conference Expo and are entering the related ‘sticker’ photo contest remember that the photo contest closes on January 3^rd. Rules and more information are available on the ‘Contest’ page on our website. The ‘Contest’ page is a dropdown under the ‘Home’ page.

Effect of Dialysis on Hypo/Hyperglycemia

We have all made a bazillion diabetic calls that resulted in a hypoglycemic patient that experiences a miraculous recovery at the end of a syringe of D₅₀, or in a more a more forward-thinking agency, a bolus of D₁₀.

And We Thought The Mosquitos Were Bad...

Severe flooding in Egypt, in mid-November, has driven poisonous scorpions out of their burrows into homes. The ensuing stinging spree sent over 500 persons to the hospital for treatment. This resulted in three fatalities.

Most were treated with antivenom and sent home. Northern Africa is home to the Egyptian Fat-tailed scorpion which is one of the most poisonous scorpions in the world according to the Saint Louis Zoo. A 2009 report in the Journal of Neurotoxicology states that worldwide over 5000 persons die from scorpion envenomation annually. Once stung, if not treated, death often occurs within one hour.

Delayed Brain Bleeds

Geriatric patients that routinely take warfarin or clopidogrel have a higher incidence of delayed hemorrhage in their brains post trauma according to new research. The research was carried out by Warren Chang, MD, MBA at the Imaging Institute for the Alleghany Health Network in Pittsburg.

While the incidence of the delayed bleed is low, it is increased if the patient also takes aspirin. The aspirin increased the number of bleeds by over a 4:1 ratio. Newer anticoagulant therapies, using Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOAC) cause harm as well but at a much lower level.

The mean time for the bleed to begin is about 22 hours after the causative trauma. Of specific consequence to EMS is the fact that of the patients that experienced the delayed bleeding, 100% of them required admission and hospital care. This is obviously not a “wait and see” situation. If you treat an elder patient that appears to have neurologic issues, even if minimal, with a fall or other trauma the day prior, they should be transported. Many of those patients do not want to go in, but it is incumbent on EMS to “make the case” regarding the importance of an evaluation for even the slightest signs and symptoms.

Black Friday Coupon

Remember, Our Black Friday Special on the TP-C/TR-C Prep & Review Course Expires at Midnight.

Thank you for being with us. This is how we show our appreciation!

- $50

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Black Friday On Top of Years End Sale Prices

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Agency Price (# or More)

~~$295~~

$245

Military/Veteran Price

~~$295~~

$245

Current TP-C/TR-C Price

~~$345~~

$295

Individual Sale Price

~~$395~~

$345

Just the Facts

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, just sharing the facts. In a poll conducted by Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center clinician confidence in COVID-19 vaccines for kids aged 5-11 showed significant hesitancy. 325 physicians, 793 nurses/APRNs, and 151 pharmacists answered the poll. 30% of doctors, 45% of RNs and APRNs, and 31% of pharmacists would not get their 5–11 year-old children vaccinated. 9% of physicians, 13% of nurses, and 9% of pharmacists were unsure. Of 510 consumers, 49% did not want their children vaccinated.

Excerpted from: 30% of Docs Say They Don’t Want Own Kids 5-11 to Get COVID Vaccine-Medscape-Nov. 23, 2021

Anti-Covid Chewing Gum

A new experimental chewing gum could reduce the amount of coronavirus particles in saliva and help slow transmission, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Molecular Therapy. The gum contains a protein that traps virus particles and could limit the spread of virus-laden droplets when infected people are talking, breathing, or coughing. Testing has shown the viral load of coronavirus patient sample to drop by 95% when it contacts the gum. The gum is not yet available for use, as it is still being tested. Obviously, this was not created in Texas, or it would have been based in chewing tobacco.

Errata

OK…We heard you…A few folks have asked why our Black Friday deals for the past two years have been on tactical courses. The Prep and Review classes are long and expensive, and we have tried to offer the discounts there to help people because of the cost of those classes. It is also a matter of timing, as We often have one scheduled at about the right time for people to pay out the class, if they need to.

We got the message. We promise to go in a completely different direction with Black Friday next year. As always, we very much appreciate the feedback from friends and previous clients, that have always become friends. Thanks to you all for the relationship and for what you do for your communities. We wish you great holidays ahead, and Godspeed. Be safe out there.

While we are eating crow, it has been brought to my attention that the above referenced Black Friday email was apparently launched about three or four hours early. Those are written days in advance of their launch and scheduled to go out between 0645 and 0700. The servers are located in Hutchinson, Kansas; and Chicago, Illinois, both of which are in our time zone. The only explanation we have been given is that due to the absolute pandemonium that apparently happens online during the early hours of Black Friday and the fact that retailers all started bombarding the system with black Friday traffic as early as Wednesday, some things got launched early, if in the que to be sent, to ascertain that they were not launched late. We are sorry for any inconvenience that the early launch caused.

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