EMS 20/20

Long Pause Media | FlightBridgeED

EMS 20/20 is podcast hosted by two experienced Paramedics. Spencer Oliver and Christopher Pfingsten discuss real calls run by real responders and pull out the lessons you won't find in a text book. This podcast is aimed at Paramedic students, seasoned Paramedics looking to refresh, or any one interested in a deeper dive into pre-hospital health care.

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20 episodes
Updated Wednesday
Explicit

Episodes20

Newest first

Special Edition: Mired Chris Incident
Spencer gives Chris perhaps this last MYM scenario: an MPS/MCI in which Chris must Command! How does he do? Let us know how his performance was as it may perhaps be the last time! Check out our IG for Spencer's hand drawn map!
Wednesday · 1 hr 42 min
Prime Time Medicine
In what has to be the most challenging photoshop job Chris has ever done, the guys tackle a call where a near ethereal patient gives no clues to what could be wrong. And gang, we have follow up... and wow. Just wow.
July 22 · 1 hr 54 min
Special Edition: Zoo SNAFU
Spencer is in the hotseat! And this call is really, really wild. Quick, do you think a heard of elephants can clearly mark an LZ?
July 15 · 1 hr 27 min
The Emperor Needs a New Attitude
Today we hear the tale of Paramedic that has the self awareness of a monarch wearing some new fangled, conditionally visible fabric. Does this bode well for the patient and their partner? Listen and find out!
July 10 · 1 hr 23 min
Special Edition: Bringing Back the Bagel
Chris is in the hotseat as Spencer gives him a call with strong ties to a past episode. Does Chris figure it out in time? Or does he KILL HIS CREW?!?!?!
June 24 · 1 hr 23 min
Kemento
Chris discovers a sound board as Spencer goes through the call... backwards? Start at the end and end at the beginning for the wild ride, complete with dramatic movie quotes.
June 17 · 2 hr 5 min
Special Edition | CSI: Truck Stop
Spencer is in the hot seat and performs quite well! He has the world's most annoying intern, but thankfully a helpful partner and PD as well. How does he do? Listen and find out!
June 10 · 1 hr 54 min
My Heart Will (Not) Go On
Friend of the Show QANTU joins us for a Titanic Sized episode! Will the efforts to pace a patient be the life boat that's needed? Or will this patient be kicked off the floating door and die an icy death?
June 5 · 2 hr 17 min
Lives Out: An EMS 20/20 Mystery
Dr. Will Heuser join the crew in a an altered LOC mystery! Intubation, a mystery of a history, and a blood pressure that is not cooperating with authorities. Will and the guys will also be at FAST26, get your tickets now! fbefast.com
May 23 · 2 hr 4 min
Do Not Pass ER
Special Guest GEOFF MURPHY of Master Your Medics fame joins the guys for a trip around the game board as a Canadian crew navigate the harsh realities of the unknown reasons someone could be altered... with a STEMI. Maybe.
May 19 · 1 hr 52 min
This Call is Baulder's Dash
Chris finds the effects button on the mixer as Spencer relays a call that shows everything that can go wrong when systemic, cultural apathy sets in deep in a system.
May 13 · 1 hr 47 min
Special Edition: Stroke of (un)Luck
Chris has his worst luck yet, as he finds an altered patient, and angry wife, and absolutely no help. How does he do? Vote on our IG! @ems2020show!
May 6 · 1 hr 44 min
Gravitating Towards Anaphylaxis?
A rapidly swelling tongue and plummeting saturations point a crew into EXACTLY the... wrong? Direction? Can you figure it out before the guys do? Let us know!
April 29 · 1 hr 33 min
SUPER Special Edition: Split the Party!
TODAY IS AWESOME! For the first time ever, neither of us are in the hotseat! Instead, the crew from The RideAlong EMT School Podcast join us in an epic collab event! How does a pair of newly minted EMT's and an experienced Paramedic do against the madness that besets them? And no, we don't go easy on them...
April 22 · 2 hr 17 min
Shake N Bake Boys, I Think We Got a BBQ
The guys welcome Special Guest Dr. Mike Lauria to the show! A crew attends a patient that is perfectly alive, but does NOT stay that way! Can this crew get in sync with what the patient needs, or do they head down a spiral of doom? And can Spencer and Lauria STOP adding movie references?
April 15 · 1 hr 47 min
PREVIEW: Stranger Lungs
To the whole STRANGER LUNGS episode, head over ems2020.com and get signed up for the EMS 2020 CE platform!
April 13 · 15 min
Special Edition: Reacting to the Lake
Spencer is given a call that has everything from boats to mystery homemade sunscreen... how does he do? Check out our IG at @ems2020show and vote today!
April 8 · 1 hr 25 min
Twisted Tongue Trauma (ish...)
The guys review a call that has blood coming from... somewhere in the mouth. Maybe. Maybe deeper. But there's a lot! Enough to cause some shock? Maaayyyybbeeeee....
April 1 · 1 hr 46 min
Special Edition: Chris Sucks at Electrolytes
Chris gets a call that he... isn't the most proud of. But Spencer feels he did OK+ ! What do you think? Vote now on Instagram!
March 25 · 1 hr 13 min
Philip Gets Fried
A pediatric airway/neuro/ewww call! Can Chris and Spencer get this figured out? An error occurs... does the agency step up and future proof themselves? Or do they fall to the old ways of the past?
March 18 · 2 hr 6 min

EMS 20/20

Special Edition: Mired Chris Incident

Prime Time Medicine

Special Edition: Zoo SNAFU

The Emperor Needs a New Attitude

Special Edition: Bringing Back the Bagel

Kemento

Special Edition | CSI: Truck Stop

My Heart Will (Not) Go On

Lives Out: An EMS 20/20 Mystery

Do Not Pass ER

This Call is Baulder's Dash

Special Edition: Stroke of (un)Luck

Gravitating Towards Anaphylaxis?

SUPER Special Edition: Split the Party!

Shake N Bake Boys, I Think We Got a BBQ

PREVIEW: Stranger Lungs

Special Edition: Reacting to the Lake

Twisted Tongue Trauma (ish...)

Special Edition: Chris Sucks at Electrolytes

Philip Gets Fried