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Micaela's Black Cloud, The Power of Touch, Running Mass Shootings
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Struggles in emergency medicine
Casey struggles with keeping up with the changes, especially the technological changes.
If you worry about keeping up, put yourself in a position to teach the new people. They will force you to learn as well.
Micaela talks about her personal struggle with burnout and the significantly high acuity calls she has run
She ran a ton of high acuity in a short amount of time. She had difficult partners and students. She was a critical part of a shooting that made national news. She was medical control on a significant MCI as well.
Some paramedics will have periods of time that are much higher acuity than normal.
Some EMS systems are so busy that you gain experience much faster than others.
Casey talks about a pediatric cardiac arrest that we were able to get back and had a good outcome.
Making that human connection is important to preventing burnout. But it needs to be done with some wisdom. We cannot pick up burdens all day that our not ours to bear.
Physical touch has power.
We all want to connect with patients, but this is difficult in certain settings. You must balance this with the emergent patients that require more of your time.
Burnout is avoided by connecting with patients.
If you get to know them, they might surprise you with their amazing stories.
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