EMS Expo Live!
I’ve mentioned a few times how important I believe it is to constantly want to learn more. To want to be better at your profession.
As an EMT, I take just about any opportunity presented to me to learn more. I’m currently in Paramedic school. I love to read other EMS blogs. I attend more CEU’s than what are required. I subscribe to JEMS, and I read the major EMS related websites like EMS1.com, EMT City, and EMS House of Defrance.
And I go to conferences. Gawd, I love the conferences.
So, what is an EMS conference? For those of you who haven’t been to one, it’s an opportunity to gain CEU’s by attending lectures by EMS professionals. It’s a chance to meet other EMS folks from around the corner or across the country. It’s the perfect time to check out the new and exciting equipment being developed by everyone from fellow paramedics to the big guys like Physio Control and Zoll (and to score some sweet swag!).
The Exhibition Hall at EMS Today 2009 in Baltimore.
This past week there was a pretty huge EMS conference in Atlanta that unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend. Luckily, there’s a website that allowed me to be there, virtually. I highly recommend a visit. I’m hoping that the same crew will be able to repeat this experience at a number of the national conferences! Check out the site, complete with some great videos at EMS Expo Live.
I’m a huge fan of the X-Collar btw. Let me know what ya think 
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well i’ll DEFINITELY be at the spring Expo with the pod guys and the one next fall is in Tx (which isn’t that far from me!) so I’ll be there as well. Def stop by, say hello, be a part of the podcast! It was a blast this year in Atlanta!!
Oh I absolutely will!!! Those conferences are addictive!
Already put in my time off request for EMS EXPO 2010 in Dallas!
Ooo, that X-Collar thing looks shiny! If it does actually provide as much support as it claims, should make extrications significantly easier. Though does look like it might cause airway management issues…
You know, I have been trying to get to EMS Expo and the Firehouse Expo since their inception. I have not made it to either one yet, but I am still plugging. There has always been something else that came up that needed the money- braces, washing machine, refrigerator, car repair, etc. This year it was the IRS.
Maybe next year. Well…not in Dallas. It will at least have to be in driving range.
X-collar, eh? Interesting. I would want to try it, but I can just hear my co-workers now… On the other hand, I saw something last year that I think was called the Reynolds Extrication or Immobilization Device (a head block set) that really worked, but I cannot find them on line.
thanks for the links and thinks!
I’m looking for some Az. conferences – sounds like fun!
They are also a good place to ‘network’
I’ll do Expo next year. Promise.