Open Airways: Stories from the back of the ambulance
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Feedback is a Balancing Act
George Perry
“He knew that he had screwed up. He wasn’t sure how, but he knew he had. And so as we started talking about it he was very receptive to learn how to fix it.” Instructor George Perry discusses constructive ways to give feedback to students, beginning with a story about a patient who was dropped.
Open Airways is a project to capture an oral history for the benefit of the EMS Community. EMS responders share some of the most meaningful cases of their careers, sometimes with humor and always with compassion. We hope that they will help us improve your practice and inspire a new generation of caregivers.
This series is produced by FISDAP with the support of EMSResponder.com. Listen to the latest features here and look for the series archive at openairways.net.
To share your most meaningful case and the lesson it taught you, call FISDAP Open Airways at 1.651.314.7424


then they try to stabalize the patient while landing the plane. Once there is an issue, they can land the plane ith in 30 minutes if they are over land. so the goal is to stabalize the patient until they land and can have the patient transported to a hospital.
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