You are listening to EMS 2020, a podcast hosted by Spencer Oliver and myself, Chris Finkston.

We are paramedics with quite a bit of experience,

ranging from flight paramedicine to ground transportation to even some volunteer work as well.

EMS 2020 reviews scenarios based on actual out-of-hospital medical scenes. Portions of the scenarios

are altered to protect the privacy of those involved and to present educational opportunities to the listener.

All right.

Welcome to EMS 2020 DeepDive Edition.

We're going deep.

Yeah, we do need to address something that was said or a point that we tried to make in our last episode that maybe didn't come across the way that we really wanted it to.

So in our last episode, we talked about head trauma.

And in one segment, we began to talk about the signs and symptoms of a brain bleed.

Yeah.

And it may have been construed that we were saying,

don't worry about recognizing the signs and symptoms of intracranial bleeds.

Absolutely not what we wanted to say.

It's very important that you recognize those signs and symptoms.

I think I had made a comment along the lines of just know them for the test.

What I meant by that is that the scenario we're differentiating between them is probably more important in a testing environment than it is in the field.

When you're in the field, there's no points for accurately guessing whether it's an epidural or a subdural or what have you.

You're not a CT scanner, nor do you have one.

That being said, you absolutely need to know

the signs and symptoms of epidural and subdural bleeds or any of the types of intercranial

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