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Air Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 54: Chilling Complications A severely ill Flu A patient, fully intubated, and fighting for every breath requires the AMPED team for transport for possible ECMO. Under even the best of circumstances, this type of patient requires extensive care and presents many challenges. But what happens when extreme weather causes problems with the team's equipment, making care even more challenging? Find out how our team dealt with and overcame these challenges to help ensure our patient's recovery and survival. Interested in obtaining CE credit for this episode? Visit OnlineAscend.com to learn more. Listeners can purchase individual episode credits or subscribe to the Critical Car...2025-07-2334 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 53: Beyond the Protocol -- A Trauma Team's Enduring FINAL Commitment A car accident on the highway sees the vehicle rollover nine times and ejects our patient out of the vehicle with a multitude of life threatening injuries. Our team refers to our patient as the sickest trauma patient any of them had ever seen. The outlook is very bleak, but our team perseveres and gives every effort to help increase the patient's odds of survival. While not ultimately successful, this episode provides critical insight and valuable lessons learned from our team about how important providing the very best care is, even when the cause appears lost. Interested in obtaining CE cr...2025-06-1833 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 52: Inner Mechanics: A Motorcycle Accident and the Art of Resilience A motorcycle accident leaves our patient with a litany of serious injuries and severe bleeding, yet he remains alert and talking to the team... but that's not the only one he talks to. Our patient puts his life in the hands of a higher power and our Air Methods crew as they work to address his numerous injuries and ailments and get him to a hospital. Hear from the patient himself through this harrowing experience. Interested in obtaining CE credit for this episode? Visit OnlineAscend.com to learn more. Listeners can purchase individual episode credits or subscribe to the Critical Car...2025-05-2237 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 50: There's No Place Like Home (or the Basics) Our team is dispatched to a scene where they understand a pregnant woman is experiencing footling breech during the birthing process. When they arrive, they find the baby already delivered and being tended to with Basic Life Support practices, although she is in rough shape. How does the team pivot? What steps do they take as the baby is in cardiac arrest? The answer, as it frequently is, is to go back to basics. Listen in on this incredible story with an unexpected ending. Interested in obtaining CE credit for this episode? Visit OnlineAscend.com to learn more. Listeners can pur...2025-03-1938 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 49: Tag, You're It When two flight teams are dispatched to a scene, usually the first to arrive takes the sicker of the patients. What happens when circumstances on the ground change that? How do the teams tag in and tag out with one another? On this episode of the AMPED Podcast, a high speed highway collision sees patients with a litany of maladies including traumatic brain injuries. Our team identifies and handles Beck's triad, tension pnuemothorax, flail chest and a lot more in an eventful transport to the medical facility. Listen in on how our team, with a special guest ride along visitor...2025-02-2138 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 48: The Pinkie Promise A pinkie promise is a promise you cannot break, and it's one our patient in this month's episode made to his wife when he was stricken with a life-threatening COVID infection. She made him promise that he would pull through the ordeal, and he did... but not without many bumps in the road. Our team not only battled our patient's COVID, but also a nasty case of pneumonia that ultimately led to him needing to be placed on ECMO, which, as you know, is usually a last resort. Listen in as they transported him prone, which our team had never do...2025-01-2941 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 47: Miracle in the Desert The holidays are a time for hope, a time for believing in the extraordinary. Remember that classic holiday film, Miracle on 34th Street? Just when everyone's lost faith, a series of unexpected events bring about the impossible. Well, this week on the Air Methods Prehospital Education Podcast, we bring you a real-life story that echoes that same spirit. It's a case of resilience, determination, and the power of preparation in the face of a life-threatening pediatric emergency. Picture this: a child in cardiac arrest, the festive joy replaced by the urgent need to save a life. Our crew, faced with a...2024-12-1950 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 46: Bending the Rules A gruesome head-on motorcycle accident causes this month's patient a litany of injuries. He has bilateral femur fractures, a large open wound on his abdomen and much more... and he's awake the whole time. He is cognizant, lucid, and chatting with our team through the entire ordeal. Is he experiencing neurogenic shock? And if he is experiencing neurogenic shock, can he be electrically paced? There's no standard guidance on this exact scenario. Tune into this episode of AMPED to find out what our team did and what the ultimate result is. Interested in obtaining CE credit for this episode? Visit On...2024-11-2034 minAir Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 44: Zen and the Art of Treating a Motorcycle Accident A motorcycle accident victim faces dire circumstances and our team has to execute a new procedure that is rarely done in the field and has a high degree of risk if not done correctly. They are one of the only teams in the region equipped to even do such a procedure, and our team is concerned about doing it correctly because a lot can go wrong. Could you do a procedure you don't normally do with an audience? Because in addition to having to execute for the good of the patient, our team had the patient's family, other first responders...2024-09-1840 min
Medic MindsetSirens In His VoiceKevin Hazzard reads 2 chapters from his latest book, Freedom House EMS is EMS’ origin story. It was almost erased until meticulously researched the story so it can sit in the forefront of our our collective consciousness. His first book, , was recommended by Nyssa Hattaway in this Medic Mindset as the one book she’d give to a new paramedic.2022-11-1730 min
Medic MindsetSirens In His VoiceKevin Hazzard reads 2 chapters from his latest book, American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became American’s First Paramedics. Freedom House EMS is EMS’ origin story. It was almost erased until Kevin Hazzard meticulously researched the story so it can sit in the forefront of our our collective consciousness. His first book, 1000 Naked Strangers, was recommended by Nyssa Hattaway in this Medic Mindset episode as the one book she’d give to a new paramedic. 2022-11-1730 min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation PodcastAir Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep 16: Stroke a CordDid you misread that title? Maybe you did and maybe you didn't. Emergency medicine requires our professionals to work from limited information and rely on instincts and assessment to diagnose and treat a patient. This usually leads our team down the right path, but sometimes leads them astray and takes them down the wrong clinical pathway for a patient. This episode takes the listener through these biases and discusses how to combat them, as we are joined by flight nurse, and host of The Q Word Podcast, Nyssa Hattaway. Nyssa Hattaway, RN, Click...2022-05-1841 min
Art of Emergency NursingAOEN Emergency Nursing Roundtable Nurses on TrialIn this episode, Kevin hosts a group of amazing nurses to talk about the trial and conviction of RoDonda Vaught, a nurse charged with negligent homicide. This panel of amazing nurses will look at the case through the ED lens and discuss the implications for ED nurses around the world. How does this happen and where do we go from here? Thank you to the Panel: Casey Green, BSN, RN, CCRN, CTRN, CFRN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN Todd Haines, MSN, RN, CEN, EMT Nyssa Hattaway, BA, BSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, CFRN Paige Owen, MSN, RN, CEN Bill Schue...2022-05-021h 33
Medic MindsetReading: Nyssa HattawayWhat do the greats of EMS read? Flight Nurse Nyssa Hattaway shares what, when and how she reads.2021-06-0845 minMedic MindsetReading: Nyssa HattawayWhat do the greats of EMS read? Flight Nurse Nyssa Hattaway shares what, when and how she reads. 2021-06-0845 min
Medic MindsetMixtape: The One BookWhat's the one book you'd recommend to a brand new paramedic? 3 guests answer this one question. The guests are: Flight Nurse, Nyssa Hattaway. Paramedic, Michael Herbert. EM Physician, Dr. Maia Dorsett.2021-06-0822 min
Medic MindsetMixtape: The One BookWhat's the one book you'd recommend to a brand new paramedic? 3 guests answer this one question. The guests are: Flight Nurse, Nyssa Hattaway. Paramedic, Michael Herbert. EM Physician, Dr. Maia Dorsett.2021-06-0822 min
Heavy Lies the HelmetRefrain and Restrain w/Nyssa HattawayRSI, chemical restraint, or physical restraint? In this podcast episode, we are joined by ED and Flight Nurse Nyssa Hattaway at AMTC19 to discuss medical management and aircraft safety considerations surrounding the patient with acute agitation, excited delirium, and/or drug-induced psychosis. We also touch on Droperidol; an old drug that is finding its way back into the Pyxis and hearts of emergency providers everywhere. ------------------------------------------------ Twitter @heavyhelmet Facebook @heavyliesthehelmet Instagram @heavyliesthehelmet YouTube /heavyliesthehelmet Website heavyliesthehelmet.com Email contact@heavyliesthehelmet.com Disclaimer: The vie...2019-11-3047 min
Q The NurseEveryday Hero #081 | Emergency Room Nurses WeekNyssa is a flight nurse for Air Life one in Griffin Georgia. Her background is in emergency nursing as a staff nurse, charge nurse, and as a department-based educator for a level one trauma center and academic research hospital. She’s been a clinical instructor for Wesleyan College school of nursing and the creator and cohost of a podcast for emergency nurses. Called The Q Word Podcast, as in we never say it’s going to be a nice quiet shift, the podcast focuses on the tips, trends, and taboos of emergency nursing.
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Medic MindsetGood, Bad and UglyGood, Bad and Ugly in a guest-episode from Nyssa Hattaway from the Q Word Podcast. 2019-05-2434 min