February roundup of the EMS blogging world

This month, I want to introduce not a blogger, but instead, a paramedic, filmmaker, and social media guru that is truly trying to change the way that EMS is seen around the world.

I was fortunate to become a colleague and friend of his when I worked with him on the Chronicles of EMS – Beyond the Lights and Sirens (2011), a reality show looking at the differences in EMS provision between the UK and the US. Since then, Ted Setla (Setla Film Production, 2011) has embarked on a mission to use social media as a tool for the improvement of EMS into a profession that we can all be proud of. I asked him to share with us the reasons why he feels so passionate about social media in EMS, and this is what he wrote:

‘It is 23 hours into a shift and you are dispatched to a call for an 80–year–old lady with altered consciousness. Upon arrival you find that the vitals are normal, but the presentation isn’t. You check the blood glucose, but unable to rule out specifics, the patient tells you she wants to stay home and states she has a DNR, but the family is not able to locate it. The call goes as normal and you are forced to take the patient to the hospital because the family states she is not acting right.