Emergency Nurses Week 2023
For over thirty years, the Emergency Nurses Association has recognized the second Wednesday in October as Emergency Nurses Day. In 2001, the association expanded the celebration to a full week to shine a bigger [...]
STAT MedEvac Airpod – Physician Mental Health and Suicide Rates
Our guest, this month, is the Allegheny County Medical Society's Executive Director Sara C. Hussey, MBA, CAE. The discussion this month is the mental health of physicians, the rising suicide rate of physicians [...]
5 Ways to Stay Mentally Healthy
In a national study conducted before the pandemic, 1 in 15 US physicians had thoughts of taking their own life. That number has unfortunately increased due to work overload and burn out, and it [...]
STAT MedEvac Airpod – Concussions Part 2, Assesment and Treatment
 In this episode, William Ankrom, an Instructor and Clinical Education Coordinator in the Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition for the Athletic Training Program at UPMC, gets more into detail regarding the evaluation, [...]
Employee Profile Jeffrey Pesarsick
 Jeffrey Pesarsick, MPH, FP-C, NREMT-P Senior Professional Flight Paramedic Years of Service - 10 years When not at work Jeff can be found working on the and his wife’s farm taking care of 26 [...]
National Suicide Prevention Week
Suicide. There is so much to be said about a single word. 49,449 Americans lost their lives to suicide last year. The mental health crisis is hitting Americans at an all-time high and it doesn’t [...]