EMTS Academy Podcast
Join host Matt Nealand, Paramedic and Program Director of EMTS Academy, as he sits down with leading voices in emergency medical services, public safety, and healthcare education.
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Flash Flood Alley: Disaster Medicine Lessons from the Kerrville Floods with Dr. Stephen Harper (opens the original)
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"You don't rise to the occasion — you sink to your level of training." When the Guadalupe River rose on July 4th, 2025, Dr. Stephen Harper drove straight toward one of the deadliest flood disasters in Texas history. Dr. Harper is an emergency medicine physician, EMS medical director for the Kerrville Fire Department, and a former Army brigade surgeon. In this conversation with host Matt Nealand, he gives a firsthand account of the Camp Mystic flood response — from the first alerts at dawn to tri
Texas EMS Director on Whole Blood, AI, and Why We Have to Stop Eating Our Young (opens the original)
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Texas is putting whole blood in the field, and medics say patients on the verge of death are waking up and talking. In this episode, Texas EMS Director Joe Schmider joins Matt Nealand to explain how it's happening and what's coming next. Joe started in 1974 as a volunteer firefighter and now oversees more than 84,000 EMS providers across Texas. He shares the inside story of the state's $10 million whole blood program and the goal of reaching every county, why whole blood matters for medical call
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