Coffee Break HEMS Podcast

Short-ish critical care medicine topics to help paramedics, respiratory therapists, and nurses expand their knowledge of critical care medicine and HEMS, operate better out in the field, and pass their specialty certification exams with confidence.

05.05 Should I start with CMV or PCV?
May 5, 2025 – 00:28:06
05.04 CO2 mastery.. Hopefully
Apr 8, 2025 – 00:29:46
05.03 High Raw or Garbage Lungs?
Mar 4, 2025 – 00:25:44
05.02 Comprehensive Stroke Care (Feat. Tom Latosek)
Feb 20, 2025 – 01:00:43
05.01 What are Ketoacids, and are they bad?
Jan 27, 2025 – 00:25:11
04.17 The Stroke Syndromes (ASLS Part II)
Jan 19, 2025 – 00:38:47
04.16 Your Stroke Assessment Sucks (ASLS Part I)
Jan 5, 2025 – 00:34:46
04.15 The Soul Crusher: EMS (Feat. Sam Brawley with the NOON Podcast)
Dec 19, 2024 – 01:38:54
04.14 The Nuances of ROSC (Feat. Tyler Christifulli)
Dec 2, 2024 – 01:35:56
04.13 Survival Guide to Cardiac Arrest Part III
Nov 20, 2024 – 00:26:26
04.12 Survival Guide to Cardiac Arrest Part II
Nov 6, 2024 – 00:36:16
04.11 Survival Guide To Cardiac Arrest Part I
Oct 23, 2024 – 00:31:16
04.10 It's your fault, own it (With Lindsey Ewing - @theprehospitalist)
Jun 30, 2024 – 01:22:18
04.09 Pediatric Emergency Respiratory Care (PERCS)
May 17, 2024 – 00:33:53
04.08 Is the AHA Wrong? (Cardiac Axis)
Apr 29, 2024 – 00:35:26
04.07 Proning Severely Hypoxic Pt's (Feat David Hersey)
Apr 10, 2024 – 01:04:22
04.06 Talkin' bout Airway Management (Feat: Dr. Haney Mallemat)
Mar 25, 2024 – 01:44:40
04.05 All things ETCO2
Mar 16, 2024 – 00:38:50
04.04 The Hamilton Series: Breath Types and Modes
Mar 1, 2024 – 00:31:12
04.03 Talkin' bout Vasopressors (Feat Eddy J. Gutierrez MD)
Feb 15, 2024 – 01:15:26
04.02 When Dispatch Doesn't Get It Right (Feat. Tyler Gausen FP-C)
Jan 26, 2024 – 01:12:37
04.01 ARDS: The death you didn't know you were responsible for
Jan 16, 2024 – 00:41:22
03.19 The Achy Breaky Neonatal Heart
Mar 25, 2023 – 00:31:48
03.18 Are Prehospital Transfusions Safe?
Feb 24, 2023 – 00:17:23
03.17 Medicine Cabinet Murder Pt III
Jan 23, 2023 – 00:16:16
03.16 It Won't Fail Because Of Me
Dec 30, 2022 – 00:19:44
03.15 The fetal heart rate is dropping!!
Dec 26, 2022 – 00:17:53
03.14 The 1 to 1 vent strategy
Dec 12, 2022 – 00:25:20
03.13 Why do we have so many fluids!?
Nov 28, 2022 – 00:21:03
03.12 How does digoxin actually work?
Nov 13, 2022 – 00:13:57
03.11 Medicine Cabinet Murder Part II
Sep 26, 2022 – 00:26:19
03.10 Demystifying Hyponatremia
Aug 22, 2022 – 00:24:29
03.09 Adv Hemodynamic Monitoring: The Easy Way
Aug 5, 2022 – 00:32:27
03.08 The First Clean Kill
Jul 1, 2022 – 00:31:51
03.07 BP 221/118? Well that's not good.
May 7, 2022 – 00:34:04
03.06 Picking the Proper Pressor
Apr 15, 2022 – 00:39:57
03.05 The Septic Trainwreck
Mar 25, 2022 – 00:38:58
03.04 Level Up Your Trauma Resus Package
Mar 5, 2022 – 00:29:17
03.03 Clinical Pearls: How To Crush Your Clinical Interview
Feb 16, 2022 – 00:45:57
03.02 Brain Attack!! When do you pull the trigger.
Jan 29, 2022 – 00:23:44
03.01 The Severe Hypoxia Vent Strategy
Jan 11, 2022 – 00:36:09
02.18 Our Deadliest Intervention: The Myths of RSI
Dec 16, 2021 – 00:33:09
02.17 Medicine Cabinet Murder
Nov 23, 2021 – 00:29:44
02.16 When ACLS Kills! Part 2
Nov 11, 2021 – 00:49:38
02.15 When ACLS kills! Part 1
Oct 28, 2021 – 00:38:18
02.14 Avoiding the Vented COPD Death Spiral
Sep 21, 2021 – 00:39:09
02.13 Four Ways to Die on a Ventilator
Sep 1, 2021 – 00:20:21
02.12 Why do we even give TXA?
Aug 10, 2021 – 00:27:46
02.11 Going Deep into Clotting in Trauma
Jul 27, 2021 – 00:42:55
02.10 Trapped at 10,000 feet
Jul 13, 2021 – 00:30:28

Recent Reviews

lanajean0

So informative

My favorite podcast to date. Austin is great at breaking things down, and I’ve learned so much. I even purchased his Airway book recently and it’s helped me immensely in understanding ventilation. We should all strive to be the best clinicians possible for our patients!
Delaney163642

Best ever

This hits all the points I was hoping for , I would highly recommend you listening to this podcast and going to his website Kiser cpr and first aid
HamiltionTy

One of the better HEMS podcasts out there.

Austin does an amazing job presenting extremely complex info in a easily digestible podcast. Highly recommend! Podcasts build on one another in a very constructive manner.
Jmccary2021

My daily driver!

Extremely informative yet easily understood! Highly recommended!
RRival14

Breakin’ it down

How things are broken down to help people understand shows true mastery of the craft. (Although we’re always learning). He definitely has it though. I’m currently in paramedic school but can listen and understand because either I’ve learned enough in class to understand / how he explains it. Also, it’s already helped in the field and in class.
HaleyHRN

BEST EXPLANATION FOR ER/ICU

I discovered your podcast about a week ago and I’m learning things I can use in my everyday practice as an ER nurse! I am having fun learning stuff I learned before but didn’t truly understand at a patho level. I’ve already listened to tons of your episodes. The way you explain stuff just makes sense! Thanks for educating us!
Kstreet31

Super helpful!

As a pediatric/neonatal ground & flight respiratory therapist with 15yrs experience this has been super helpful in so many ways!! Just ordered the book!! Yay!
DebraKZ

Great content

This podcast has helped me understand SO much about ventilation is a relatively quick time frame. Especially low compliance lungs in R/T ARDS and Covid. I highly recommend!
FlawdaMed

Awesome

I love listening and learning to your podcast. Im a new fire medic working for a dept that transports and I learn alot from tuning in! Thank you!
Fox.two

New medic

I’m a new medic (~1 year) working in a 911 system. Thank you so much for this podcast, I’d say I learn something new with every podcast, but it wouldn’t do it justice. I learn so much from your episodes, keep ‘em coming!
Michele GU3

Best Practice

It is clear that Austin researches his teachings with current best practice. He is easy to understand and I enjoy the duration of these podcasts! Keep them coming Austin.
Ldudley95

Hooked!

I love EMS podcasts, and when I stumbled upon this one, I was instantly hooked!!! Concepts that I have had a difficult time understanding seemed to instantly “click” with Austin’s simple teaching method. I especially enjoyed the podcast on king compliance! I give this five stars and look forward to new episodes!
gt0808

Fantastic!!

He has a way of teaching and conceptualizing topics in a ways that is easy to understand and super interesting. Love each of these so far and hope there are more to come. Thank you so much!!