All tagged Palliative Care

Episode 101: Death Notifications with Steph Leather

We're bad at notifying families what's happening during a cardiac arrest event. We're even worse on ourselves. The average person may see 3 or 4 dead people in their lives and EMS workers often see that many in a shift. The Overrun's new team member Steph Leather, a national speaker on death notifications and a director of a clinical psychology practice takes us through the steps to make death notifications easier on ourselves and on families of our patients.

Episode 71: What The Actual, Sedgwick?

Ed and Dan are the hosts for our latest “What The Actual…” episode, where we take a look at an EMS train wreck and try to learn from it…or at least try to figure out what the heck happened.

This time, we travel to Sedgwick County, Kansas, where a prehospital attempt at palliative care goes way off the rails, resulting in everyone involved being sanctioned…except the one you’d think