Prehospital Emergency Care Podcast

May 22, 2020

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Happy EMS Week!!!

The PEC Podcast team is proud to celebrate EMS week with you! In honor of your commitment to your community and dedication to your craft, we celebrate your hard work with a very special story that exemplifies Emergency Medical Services.

The mini-Dunkirk event of Jamaica Queens Hospital patients was an amazing rescue effort composed of Ground EMS, Helicopter EMS, FEMA, and the health care providers of that hospital. When Jamaica Queens Hospital was overwhelmed with COVID patients, EMS answered the call.

Listen to the PEC podcast team interview:

Flight Paramedic Jennifer Noce (with her Great Dane Murph)

Flight Nurse/Medic Lisa Kettunen

Flight Nurse Rebecca Akers

talk about their experiences during the Mini-Dunkirk rescue of Jamaica Queens Hospital.

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As always THANK YOU for listening!

Hawnwan Philip Moy MD (@pecpodcast)

Scott Goldberg MD, MPH (@EMS_Boston)

Jeremiah Escajeda MD, MPH (@jerescajeda)

Joelle Donofrio-Odmann DO (@PEMems)

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CNN. "Go inside a NYC hospital on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak." YouTube. CNN March 30 2020. 10:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpSC__Nxso&t=9s

NBC News. "New York City At The Epicenter Of Outbreak In The U.S. NBC Nightly News." YouTube March 25, 2020. 10:57. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfbHItsmhA&t=19s

/staff/elizabeth-Kim, and /staff/jake-Offenhartz. "Coronavirus Updates: Queens Hospitals Forced To Transfer Dozens Of Patients Due To 'Malfunctioning' Oxygen Systems." Gothamist, 8 Apr. 2020, gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-after-pressure-nyc-releases-racial-breakdown-covid-19-deaths.

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Steinbuch, Yaron. "51 Patients Transferred from Queens Hospitals Due to Oxygen Demands." New York Post, New York Post, 9 Apr. 2020, nypost.com/2020/04/09/17-nyc-patients-on-ventilators-transferred-from-queens-hospital/.