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Voices of EMS #7. The limited series of Voices of EMS (VOEMS) continues this week with Kris Kaull and Jonathon Feit. Both are leaders and innovators in EMS and technology. Listen as they provide sound advice in their stories. Kris mentions his TED Talk you may want to listen to (https://youtu.be/PnXpj2hsyaE). VOEMS lets me revisit some of the Medic2Medic Podcast guests for them to tell one more story.
This episode of EMS One-Stop with Rob Lawrence is brought to you by Lexipol, the experts in policy, training, wellness support and grants assistance for first responders and government leaders. To learn more, visit lexipol.com. Fresh back from Montana's Big Sky EMS Symposium, in this episode of EMS One-Stop, Host Rob Lawrence chats with Kris Kaull on his history-taking session. They discuss Kaull's 10 top hacks to improve your history taking, including: Thinking like a detective Thinking outside the box Understanding medical medicine Being a good listener Kaull has driven innovation and positive change in EMS for over 25 years. After beginning his career as a firefighter and EMT, he started paramedic.com and co-founded EMS1. He is currently the chief marketing officer at Pulsara, a healthcare and mobile tech startup. He has worked as a firefighter captain, paramedic and ambulance service director, and continues his practice as a critical care flight paramedic covering southwest rural MT and Yellowstone National Park. Kaull has shared his presentation and notes here.
We’ve discussed burnout on the podcast in the past. When thinking about ways to combat burnout, a word that often comes up is resilience. Emergency care was stressful enough, then 2020 decided to add COVID to the mix. Join the podcast crew and special guest Kris Kaull as we talk about ways to foster resilience as an EMS provider which will hopefully extinguish burnout before it spreads. REFERENCES 1. https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/08/7-habits-of-highly-resilient-physicians.html 2. https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2O1RTLPJFYHVE&dchild=1&keywords=breath+becomes+air&qid=1604872706&sprefix=breath+be%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1 3. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-accumulation-of-marginal-gains-with-salim-rezaie/id1501107371?i=1000487654581
This episode tackles the definition of "stupidity" and how this relates to prehospital medical care. Dr. Patrick is joined by Kris Kaull to discuss the definition of stupid, risk factors for making stupid moves and how to possibly prevent these in the EMS setting. REFERENCES 1. Episode inspiration - https://fs.blog/2019/01/how-not-to-be-stupid/ 2. Checklist Manifesto - http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312430000/ 3. Avalanche TedX talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOgyyDUD2w
Kris Kaull takes a brutally honest look at the past 25 years in public safety and his own failures of epic proportion. Kris will dig into why we eat our young and how to mentor the next generation. In the latest installment of the Stories From Expo series, our friends at EMS Garage talk to top speakers and thought leaders from the 2019 EMS World Expo in New Orleans. Follow EMS World on Twitter and Facebook, and Instagram. EMS World Expo will be held Sept. 14-18, 2020 in Las Vegas!
Kris Kaull is a flight paramedic, CMO for the tech startup Pulsara, technologist, writer, and speaker. We sit down and go DEEP into many topics including his biggest failures in medicine, what it takes to be a serial entrepreneur, and what customer service frequently gets wrong in EMS among many other topics as well.
Kris Kaull is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in public safety both as a clinician and business professional. Kris was the the founder of EMS1.com. Kris began his career in public safety as a firefighter and EMT. Kris is passionate about EMS and technology and you can hear this during our conversation. We talk about leadership qualities and you will be surprised about quality Kris thinks is the most important. We also talk about what gets Kris's creative juices going.