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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
Volusia County, Fla., EMS created a policy that would require medics to pass nicotine tests to keep their jobs
Give this a try next time you have to splint a patient with a hip fracture in cramped quarters
Many management systems that perceive a lack of discipline in their field crews are actually missing a lack of effective leadership
Who do you think would make a better partner: Chuck Norris or Darth Vader? How about Wile E. Coyote?
The curse of a busy EMS career is that compassion is the skill that erodes while all the rest of our skills become stronger with constant practice
Rather than confining our advocacy to the third week of May, we need to be stewards of our profession for the other 51 weeks a year
Despite a growing body of evidence that it may indeed do harm to some, spinal motion restriction remains the de facto standard of care in most EMS systems
Not one of the 30 medics I informally polled had intubated more than three people before being cleared to practice
The tale of how SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ columnist Kelly Grayson helped make a save while returning home from EMS Today