About this episode

The episode focuses on lifesaving interventions like bystander CPR and bleeding control during EMS Week 2026.

Mike Brown hosts this JEMS Podcast Save a Life Day special during EMS Week 2026, joined by Chief Rom Duckworth and Dr. Shira Schlesinger. We celebrate EMS professionals and focus on two lifesaving interventions: bystander CPR and bleeding control. Topics include barriers to community CPR, Sidewalk CPR Week and practical, low-cost ways to increase engagement. They discuss Stop the Bleed realities: tourniquet over application concerns, the need for tourniquet correction and conversion by trained prehospital clinicians, and strategies to co locate tourniquets with AEDs.

People in this episode

Host: Mike Brown

Guests: Rom Duckworth, Shira Schlesinger

Topics covered

• CPR
• bleeding control
• community engagement
• EMS Week
• bystander intervention

Keywords

• CPR
• Stop the Bleed
• EMS Week
• bystander intervention
• tourniquet

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JEMS

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