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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