Troy Shaffer, Author at EMS Flight Safety Network

Truth & Lies About EMS Who Fly

The point is to decide right now if you really want to know the truth about EMS helicopters and air medical. Knowing will change your perspective forever. It’s not necessarily a bad change. But your perspective will definitely change. Sometimes, like an aviation manager in an emergency room, it’s better to just feel the excitement and energy of the moment, than to try and understand...

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3 Low Cost Ways to Resuscitate Your Dying EMS Base

Before I explain, I want to warn you of a crime that is about to be committed. A serious crime that hurts your EMS base’s chances of survival. A crime that puts everything you’ve worked so hard to obtain —at risk.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Future Flight Crew

Wouldn’t it be great if getting a flight job were easy? As simple as, follow these 3 easy steps and here are your flight medic wings. It would also be really convenient for doctors, nurses, paramedics and pilots who dream of flying air medical. Unfortunately...

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Happy Thanksgiving from EMS Flight Safety Network

Here is the EMS Flight Safety Network list of 15 things we humbly ask you consider adding to your own “gratitude list” this year.

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10 Smart Questions To Ask In A Flight Interview

Flight Interviews aren't just about giving the right — they're about asking the right questions. Flight interviews are intimidating. But what many nurses, medics and pilots don't realize is...flight interviews are a two-way street.

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10 Tips to Nail Your Flight Job Phone Interview

Boom! There it is. The email you've been waiting for. An invitation to interview with your favorite air medical flight program. The flight team you've dreamed about joining has an opening —and you're on the short list. All good. Except you've never done a phone interview before...

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Top 10 Reasons Your Best EMS Crews Quit

"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" ~Sir James Goldsmith. Admit it. You’ve thought about it. Quitting the whole EMS thing. Being home every night. Spending holidays with your family. Going to all your kids’ ball games. Maybe even putting a little extra money in your paycheck, right? If you’re being honest with yourself…you know you’ve thought about getting a “real” job from time to time.

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EMS Pilot Math Made Easy

— A simple calculation for how long until the EMS helicopter to arrive. If you love math and solve complex word problems to relax, this article is NOT for you. If math is a four letter word you sometimes use with other more colorful four letter words, then keep reading.

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What Beer Can Teach Us About EMS Outreach

—How a simple idea saved Schlitz Beer. Do you know the rescue story of Schlitz beer? How a simple idea saved the Schlitz beer company? Schlitz beer was locked in a death match...

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Drones Deliver Defibrillators to Cardiac Arrest Patients

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Drone Days of Summer

New rules start today. Commercial flyers will need a remote pilot certificate and a Transportation Security Administration background check. The drone can’t weigh more than 55 pounds, fly higher than 400 feet, and must remain visible at all times.

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