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Medic Mindset Podcast: Thinking about tachycardia

Host Ginger Locke interviews Dr. Katherine Remick about how a differential diagnosis and patient history can differentiate between SVT and sinus tachycardia

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In “The Thinking Series,” host Ginger Locke, interviews the sharpest minds in emergency medicine about how they think. In this episode, she delves into how an EMS medical director asks her medics to bend their brains around the topic of tachycardia.

Dr. Katherine Remick is triple board certified in Emergency Medicine, EMS and Pediatrics. She is a professor at The University of Texas Dell Medical School in Austin. Our host met up with her at an EMS Station in Hays County, Tx., where Dr. Remick is the medical director.

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The Medic Mindset podcast is created and hosted by Ginger Locke, BA, NRP. As an associate professor of EMS Professions at Austin (TX) Community College, she has immersed herself in the art and science of how medics think and perform. In interviews with medics and subject-matter experts, she thoughtfully explores the inner-workings of the minds of medics. Prior to becoming a paramedic, she studied social psychology at the University of Georgia and the University of Leicester, UK. Her professional endeavors revolve around the conviction that the most important and complicated tool in EMS in the brain of the medic.