Podcast
EMS 20/20
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.
- Episodes
- 265
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 45 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 6 days ago
Episodes
265 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 43 min
Unraveling Chest Pain
Episode 267
Show notes
Chris brings an episode to Spencer this time around, and Spencer tries to unravel the mystery of a long buried threat in a patient's chest. In this flight oriented episode, can Spencer end the curse, or is everyone taken out by a plague?
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Special Edition: Mason Stays Cool
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Mason joins us in this week's Master Your Medics Special Edition! Mason is given a call with an altered patient... and there more than a few reasons to sift through in this complicated trauma call. How does Mason do? Listen and find out!
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PREVIEW: Promise Not To Try Bonus
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A preview of the LongPauseMedia.com EXCLUSIVE EPISODE: Promise Not to Try
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1 hr 35 min
CO Too
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How many times can a single crew run CO poisoning calls in one day? Has Mauly returned to exact her revenge on humanity? In a call that boils Chris' blood (like that's hard to do...), a single ambulance crew has a lot to deal with as they find themselves in an ugly predicament.
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1 hr 35 min
Special Edition: Fishing for Mack's AMS
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Listener Rick joins the guys and goes fishing for an reason his patient won't get out of a taxi... is it because... THE TAXI DRIVER IS LYING SPY?!?! Listen and find out!
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1 hr 45 min
Mauly and Me
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In today's all BLS episode, a crew runs into a career first (and maybe career worst...) kinda call. Can two EMT's, neither with more than a year of experience and no ALS in sight, pull it off? Have a listen and find out on this week's episode that goes totally off-leash.
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1 hr 36 min
Special Edition: YOU SHALL BE AVENGED
Episode 262
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Listener Sam joins the crew in a call that stinks of old EMS 20/20 episodes... does the listener catch on and solve the case? Do the dice do him dirty? Listen and find out!
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2 hr
The Pieces Don't Fit
Episode 261
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Spencer brings a case and Chris becomes somewhat skeptical that the juice is worth the squeeze as a crew struggles to get the pieces to fit. A language barrier, an explosion, and equipment that just won't work compounds a patient with a serious injury. Do they figure it out, or does their screen fill up with mayhem?
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1 hr 8 min
Special Edition: POCUS Ranger
Episode 260
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On this weeks Master Your Medics Special Edition, we have Danny Kustra! Known for speaking at FAST conferences and running @dnr_prehospital_education, Spencer gives him a harrowingly difficult call... does he sink or swim? HINT: swimming is easier with sonar...
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2 hr 7 min
Legal Lessons for a Full Kart
Episode 259
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SPECIAL GUESTS SAMANTHA JOHNSON (a real attorney!) and NICK ADAMS from the Standard of Care Podcast join the guys today as we go over an amazing episode with a diabolical twist... A well run trauma call turns into... another well run trauma call? Chris and Nick go in blind while Samantha and Spencer hang back and blue shell us moments before the finish line. Legal questions asked and answered in today's wild episode!
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1 hr 30 min
Unexplained Resuscitation
Episode 258
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What happens when you drag a coded patient across the carpet at break neck speed? Can you defib a cigarette? All this and more on this weeks episode as a Canadian crew handles a code down a looooooooong hallway.
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1 hr 58 min
Special Edition: BOLDY GOING... (...to the ER for lab values)
Episode 256
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In a first ever to EMS 20/20, we invite a listener to the show to participate in our Master Your Medics Special Edition! As a voluntary sacrificial Red Shirt, Kate joins the crew and is given a patient! And then another... or maybe just one? Wait, why are we going to the hospital?
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1 hr 47 min
Pregnancy Trouble is Afoot!
Episode 255
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HOOLLDD ME NOW, I'M 8cm FROM THE EDGE... Chris and Spence follow the surprise of a lifetime as a crew navigates a pregnancy call where things get... stuck.
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1 hr 43 min
Special Edition: Mired Chris Incident
Episode 254
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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!
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1 hr 55 min
Prime Time Medicine
Episode 253
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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.
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1 hr 27 min
Special Edition: Zoo SNAFU
Episode 252
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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?
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1 hr 24 min
The Emperor Needs a New Attitude
Episode 251
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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!
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1 hr 24 min
Special Edition: Bringing Back the Bagel
Episode 250
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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?!?!?!
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2 hr 5 min
Kemento
Episode 249
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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.
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1 hr 54 min
Special Edition | CSI: Truck Stop
Episode 248
Show notes
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!
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