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EMS 20/20

EMS 20/20 is podcast hosted by two experienced Paramedics. Spencer Oliver and Christopher Pfingsten discuss real calls run by real responders and pull out the lessons you won't find in a text book. This podcast is aimed at Paramedic students, seasoned Paramedics looking to refresh, or any one interested in a deeper dive into pre-hospital health care.

Hosted byChris Pfingsten, Spencer Oliver
268 episodes Education 192 with CE

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: Mason Stays Cool
Episode 266 Oct 21, 2026 1:32:58

Mason joins us in this week's Master Your Medics Special Edition! Mason is given a call with an altered patient... and there more than a few reasons to sift through in this complicated trauma call. How does Mason do? Listen and find out!

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EMS 20/20 CO Too
Episode 265 Oct 14, 2026 1:35:00

How many times can a single crew run CO poisoning calls in one day? Has Mauly returned to exact her revenge on humanity? In a call that boils Chris' blood (like that's hard to do...), a single ambulance crew has a lot to deal with as they find themselves in an ugly predicament.

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: Fishing for Mack's AMS
Episode 264 Oct 7, 2026 1:35:28

Listener Rick joins the guys and goes fishing for an reason his patient won't get out of a taxi... is it because... THE TAXI DRIVER IS LYING SPY?!?! Listen and find out!

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: POCUS Ranger
Episode 260 Sep 16, 2026 1:08:28

On this weeks Master Your Medics Special Edition, we have Danny Kustra! Known for speaking at FAST conferences and running @dnr_prehospital_education, Spencer gives him a harrowingly difficult call... does he sink or swim? HINT: swimming is easier with sonar...

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: BOLDY GOING... (...to the ER for lab values)
Episode 256 Aug 12, 2026 1:57:54

In a first ever to EMS 20/20, we invite a listener to the show to participate in our Master Your Medics Special Edition! As a voluntary sacrificial Red Shirt, Kate joins the crew and is given a patient! And then another... or maybe just one? Wait, why are we going to the hospital?

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EMS 20/20 Prime Time Medicine
Episode 253 Jul 22, 2026 1:54:52

In what has to be the most challenging photoshop job Chris has ever done, the guys tackle a call where a near ethereal patient gives no clues to what could be wrong. And gang, we have follow up... and wow. Just wow.

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EMS 20/20 Kemento
Episode 249 Jun 17, 2026 2:05:12

Chris discovers a sound board as Spencer goes through the call... backwards? Start at the end and end at the beginning for the wild ride, complete with dramatic movie quotes.

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition | CSI: Truck Stop
Episode 248 Jun 10, 2026 1:54:14

Spencer is in the hot seat and performs quite well! He has the world's most annoying intern, but thankfully a helpful partner and PD as well. How does he do? Listen and find out!

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: The Bottom Drops Out
Episode 234 Mar 11, 2026 1:13:23

Spencer is in the hotseat and for the life of him (or his pretend patient) him simply cannot get a good role. Did he do a good job, or will you score him lower than the dice did?

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: I Have Better Things To Do
Episode 230 Feb 11, 2026 1:07:17

Chris gives Spencer the greatest challenge of all: a distracted Supervisor as a partner. Can Spencer redirect a partner who clearly has more important things to do? Or will he lose his famous cool?

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EMS 20/20 When Things Get Skrewy
Episode 227 Jan 21, 2026 1:42:53

How do you convince an unaltered but still kind of altered patient to go to the hospital? Especially when they claim they are being tormented by random people who are stealing their sandwich fixings? Listen and find out!

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EMS 20/20 Code Alone
Episode 223 Dec 17, 2025 1:32:10

Holy wow is this episode... wild. Every calamity that can occur, will occur, especially if you are unprepared. It's almost as though being unprepared invites a swinging paint can to the face. How does today's crew handle a heat related call? Or is it an MI... or is it respiratory?

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EMS 20/20 L.A.S.T. Call
Episode 219 Nov 19, 2025 1:30:31

The guys fumble through an interesting call with many odd findings... including a high-end hotel that is well prepared for the arrival of EMS. Can this all BLS crew come to the right conclusion?

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: Heated Reaction
Episode 213 Oct 8, 2025 1:19:12

Spencer finds himself in the hot seat on a hot day in a hot field with unresponsive patient. What could be the problem? Or problems? Does Chris make things harder? Of course he does. VOTE now!

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EMS 20/20 Altered Addison's
Episode 212 Oct 1, 2025 1:36:38

A crew runs a call with an altered patient. Could it be a rare endocrine disorder? Hypotension? Hypoglycemia? Bad cyberware? Find out on this week's episode!

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EMS 20/20 Special Edition: Unhappy Meal
Episode 211 Sep 24, 2025 1:33:17

Chris is in the hotseat as he does a call hungry, making each roll harder and each success a little more out of reach. Are his efforts a super sized success, or does his clinical skill belong on the dollar menu? Vote now!

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EMS 20/20 Hot Pursuit, Hotter Patient with RAINN WILSON
Episode 210 Sep 17, 2025 1:34:13

RAINN WILSON joins Chris and Spencer (no, really) as they discuss a methamphetamine marathon runner who gets brought up to medium rare. Can an EMT push against the tide to get the right thing done? Can Chris expand his vocabulary? Check out CODE 3 starring RAINN WILSON in select theaters NOW!

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EMS 20/20 Ding Dong, The Patient's... Dead?
Episode 208 Sep 3, 2025 1:21:27

When a code 99 comes in for a frequent flyer, a crew finds themself in a classic case of "there's more than meets the eye". Do they follow the yellow brick road to get their questions answered? Click your rube red slippers three times and be transported away to a land of not quite death but maybe some destruction.

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EMS 20/20 is podcast hosted by two experienced Paramedics. Spencer Oliver and Christopher Pfingsten discuss real calls run by real responders and pull out the lessons you won't find in a text book. This podcast is aimed at Paramedic students, seasoned Paramedics looking to refresh, or any one interested in a deeper dive into pre-hospital health care.