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Kelly Grayson, AGS, NRP, CCP

The Ambulance Driver’s Perspective

Kelly Grayson, AGS, NRP, CCP, has been a critical care paramedic and EMS educator for over 30 years. Kelly is a passionate EMS advocate and a frequent regional and national EMS conference speaker, podcaster, and contributing author to several EMS textbooks. He is the author of the bestselling trilogy of EMS memoirs, the editor of the emergency medicine and public safety anthologies, and many short stories and fiction novels. He lives in the North Country of New York where his patients constantly ask him about his Louisiana accent.

LATEST ARTICLES
Shouting “Show me the evidence or STFU!” squashes any chance of persuasion and intimidates those who want to learn
Forming a strategic plan for your agency’s future is the easy part; the hard part is getting the people who will carry it out to believe in it as much as you do
When people lash out in personal attacks I hit back harder, but arguing only goads them into defending their position, not examining it critically
When depression or PTSD sets in, peer support is the lifeline that never fails
Approaching every scene with calmness, compassion, command presence and code choreography leads to better patient care
Family members may not be allowed in the back of the rig, but when the infant you’re doing CPR on probably won’t regain a pulse, will you deny the people who love her the chance to be by her side?
Those cliché, ignorant and misguided T-shirt slogans are better with a healthy dose of reality; just don’t expect to find them in your Facebook news feed
Triage is a cold and calculating decision; to make the correct decision, you have to subvert a bit of your humanity.
Here I am, naked and exposed in a public forum, making a confession that, quite frankly, scares the crap out of me: Hi, I’m Kelly, and I suffer from depression.
Understand the shape and significance of a plethysmograph waveform to glean a lot of information about your patient’s cardiovascular status