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Demers Ambulances is one of the largest, most trusted ambulance design and manufacturers in the world with a vision to build safe, reliable, and efficient emergency vehicles to assist paramedics in saving lives. Demers manufactures Type I, II and III emergency medical and fire ambulances that set the bar for quality, innovation, attention to detail, and rigorous testing. To find a Demers ambulance dealer in your region visit https://www.demers-ambulances.com/ Your partner on the road, every day, on every call.

This episode’s theme is “Savings: Our Subconscious Beliefs and Actionable Strategies to Overcome Them.” Host Sean J. Britton provides an overview of money scripts, which is one psychological framework to describe how people approach money and personal finance. Additionally, you will be presented with three actionable strategies to help improve your personal savings by overcoming your own subconscious beliefs about money and personal finance.

Breaking the Cycle

Demers Ambulances is one of the largest, most trusted ambulance design and manufacturers in the world with a vision to build safe, reliable, and efficient emergency vehicles to assist paramedics in saving lives. Demers manufactures Type I, II and III emergency medical and fire ambulances that set the bar for quality, innovation, attention to detail, and rigorous testing. To find a Demers ambulance dealer in your region visit https://www.demers-ambulances.com/ Your partner on the road, every day, on every call.

Eric Chase speaks with Jeff Dill of the Fire Fighter Behavioral Health Alliance about making the internal size-up and helping our brothers and sisters in need.

Taking It to The Skies

Demers Ambulances is one of the largest, most trusted ambulance design and manufacturers in the world with a vision to build safe, reliable, and efficient emergency vehicles to assist paramedics in saving lives. Demers manufactures Type I, II and III emergency medical and fire ambulances that set the bar for quality, innovation, attention to detail, and rigorous testing. To find a Demers ambulance dealer in your region visit https://www.demers-ambulances.com/ Your partner on the road, every day, on every call.

In this episode, Dov and Raphael go behind the scenes on the recent launch of United Hatzalah's airborne medical unit and new medevac program. The newly launched program will consist of 30 specially trained paramedics who have all just recently graduated from intensive medevac flight training and will operate on three medevac helicopters that will be spread across the country.

This new unit, as all units run by United Hatzalah, will cut down response times a provide an additional option to the government-run medevac program which currently operates two medevac choppers.

With its inauguration, United Hatzalah operates, by land, by sea, and now by air!

A Leader Aspiring to Do More

From isolation to engagement, Eric Chase has a passionate and multifaceted conversation with Michael Chanat, BS, MS.

When the Ground Shook

Dov and Raphael discuss how United Hatzalah got a relief team to Turkey following the earthquake in just a few hours and some of the work that the medical rescue team undertook while on the ground. 

The Good in You Is Wanting Out Again

Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock and James Wong speak about moral injury, seeking connection, compassion and love.

Evidence-Based Practice

Infection control consultant Katherine West compares and contrasts N95 respirators to surgical masks for protection for EMS personnel.

Mission to Ukraine

As Ukraine suffers a major electrical crisis due to Russian bombing attacks and the full onset of a freezing winter, United Hatzalah kicked into gear the next phase of our relief mission codenamed "Operation Orange Wings," which has been ongoing since the onset of the war. 

Dov Maisel discusses his own personal experience in delivering more than 100 electrical generators to orphanages, schools, medical clinics, and community centers in need of power. 

Our teams are in the middle of purchasing and dispensing close to 500 generators to those in need across the country. In a country where electrical generators are in scarily short supply and are often used as major currency currently, our teams jumped in to provide these much-needed devices that are actually saving lives.

There Is No Dull Moment in EMS

In this episode, which had to be put on pause due to a terror attack against one of United Hatzalah's ambulances that resulted in an injury to and EMS provider, Dov and Raphael discuss the terror attack itself, Raphael's first real-life MCI that took place a few days earlier, and a crazy incident involving a Zebra. All of these incidents occurred within just a few days of one another really made us recognize, once again, that there is no dull moment in EMS.  

A New Term for an Ongoing Issue

Infection control consultant Katherine West identifies the role of EMS in the prevention of medical transport-associated infection.