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## [The EMS Crystal Ball: Foreseeing Bad Days Through Latent Patient Safety Threats](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/seeing-into-the-future-predicting-bad-days-in-ems)
Posted by [Ben King](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/ben-king) on April 19, 2026
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What if we could foresee our bad days as EMS leaders? Every organization in emergency medical services faces very real, high-stakes, high-profile risks. The very nature of our profession puts our personnel in tough, unpredictable situations where mistakes, misjudgments, and system failures can lead to disastrous outcomes.
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Topics: [From The CEO](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/from-the-ceo), [EMS Training](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/ems-training), [Travel Paramedic](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/travel-paramedic), [Healthcare safety](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/healthcare-safety), [Education](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/education)
## [Top EMS Talent Is Leaving — And It’s Impacting Everything](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/top-talent-is-leaving-and-its-impacting-everything)
Posted by [Ben King](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/ben-king) on December 16, 2025
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It’s a reality we see across EMS systems nationwide: call volume keeps climbing, the roster keeps shrinking, and your most experienced providers are the ones walking away. The race to the bottom is accelerating.
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## [Travel Paramedicine](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/travel-paramedicine)
Posted by [Ben King](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/ben-king) on April 22, 2022
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Travel paramedics are part of the workforce solution healthcare desperately needs. Best Practice Medicine (BPM) created and is rapidly scaling the nation's first dedicated travel paramedic agency in support of ambulance and hospital operations nationwide.
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Topics: [From The CEO](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/from-the-ceo), [Travel Paramedic](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/travel-paramedic), [Healthcare safety](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/healthcare-safety)
## [Celebrating 6 Years of BPM!](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/celebrating-6-years-of-bpm)
Posted by [Jamie Heinrich](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/jamie-heinrich) on April 20, 2021
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Traditionally, a six year anniversary gift is candy (for sweetness) or iron (for strength). Today looking at this business we started six years ago with three guys and a dog, we have been given sweetness and strength in ways we never expected.
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## [BPM RELEASES PURPOSE BUILT MOBILE VACCINATION CENTERS](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/vaccine-administration-support-team-vast-releases-purpose-built-mobile-vaccination-centers)
Posted by [Matt MaCoy](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/matt-macoy) on March 22, 2021
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| Date March 19, 2021 BEST PRACTICE MEDICINE VACCINE ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT TEAM (VAST) RELEASES PURPOSE BUILT MOBILE VACCINATION CENTERS **Bozeman, MT** — Best Practice Medicine (BPM) released a line of new, purpose built Mobile Community Vaccination Centers on Saturday, March 20, 2021, as added resources for their Vaccine Administration and Support Taskforce (VAST). With the addition of these trailers teams are capable of administering 300-400 vaccines each day at each location in Montana, completely self-sustained. |
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## [Best Practice Medicine turns Five!](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/best-practice-medicine-turns-five)
Posted by [Ben King](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/ben-king) on April 20, 2020
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Yesterday as I was looking for some business records I came across the original filing paperwork with IRS to establish Best Practice Medicine as a limited liability corporation. Turns out, today we turn five years old! (At least that's when we started paying taxes...). I can remember spending weeks trying to understand what an LLC was, how to file the paperwork, and wondering if all the hassle of setting up a company would be worth it. I admit, at the time, I didn't think it would be.
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Topics: [From The CEO](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/from-the-ceo), [News](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/news)
## [Show me the data... (Does simulation really work?)](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/show-me-the-data...-does-simulation-really-work)
Posted by [Ben King](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/ben-king) on March 04, 2020
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This [study](https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Citation/2020/02000/Does_simulation_work__Monthly_trauma_simulation.5.aspx) published February, 2020 in the [Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery](https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/default.aspx) contributed to the substantial and growing [body of research](https://simmt.org/the-case-for-simulation/the-ethical-imperative-of-simulation) dedicated to the question, does simulation work? Can we show improved patient outcomes as a result of experiential education facilitated by the facsimile creation of life like rehearsal?
###### **Unequivocally the answer is, yes.**
The evidence base for this conclusion is neither small or narrow in its focus. Take for example this study which is assessing whether trauma teams who participate in regular high fidelity simulations show an improvement in the time it takes to establish a chest tube in a trauma patient.
"Median pretraining time for resuscitative thoracotomy was 14 minutes (IQR, 8–32 minutes); posttraining median time was 3 minutes (IQR, 2.7–8 minutes,*p*= 0.02)"
Read that again...
###### **Before simulation based learning, median time to place a chest tube = 14 minutes**
###### **After simulation based learning, median time to place a chest tube = 3 minutes**
###### The **delta of this is 11 minutes**.
Blood and air filling your chest cavity, placing pressure on your vena-cava likely resulting in its collapse leading to PEA cardiac arrest and the dreaded **trauma arrest** death spiral. An eleven minute reduction in the time to facilitate the evacuation of the blood and or air may very well be the difference between life and death. This just one of many studies that strongly correlate the integration of serial simulation into clinical practice resulting in improved care and better patient outcomes.
We compile studies to support the impact of simulation based education in healthcare. We have identified that simulation can be reliably attributed to;
1. [Improves patient outcomes](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/best-practice-medicine-launches-new-division-with-new-rural-focused-tactical-emergency-medicine-course-in-flathead-county)
2. [Reduces preventable medical error](http://study%20links%20simulation%20training%20with%20improved%20prehospital%20pediatric%20care/)
3. [Increases team performance](https://bestpracticemedicine.com/support-tools/the-science-research-of-simulation?__hstc=258286421.e217bf55da69335503d46b58b2643239.1581373828515.1583349857008.1583361991289.14&__hssc=258286421.1.1583361991289&__hsfp=2733259174)
4. [Identifies latent patient safety threats](https://bestpracticemedicine.com/support-tools/the-science-research-of-simulation?__hstc=258286421.e217bf55da69335503d46b58b2643239.1581373828515.1583349857008.1583361991289.14&__hssc=258286421.1.1583361991289&__hsfp=2733259174)
## Simulation works!
Park, C., Grant, J., Dumas, R. P., Dultz, L., Shoultz, T. H., Scott, D. J., … Cripps, M. W. (2020). Does simulation work? Monthly trauma simulation and procedural training are associated with decreased time to intervention. *Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery*, *88*(2), 242–248. doi: 10.1097/ta.0000000000002561
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## [CEO Ben King Recognized As 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/ceo-ben-king-is-finalist-for-prospera-business-networks-2019-entrepreneur-of-the-year-award)
Posted by [Nathan Williams](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/nathan-williams) on February 19, 2020
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At the close of 2019 (November 8th), we had the privilege of attending the [Prospera Business Network's](https://www.prosperamt.org/) 34th Annual Business Excellence Awards Dinner in Bozeman, Montana. With hundreds of local Montana leaders, businesses, and entrepreneurs gathered for an open bar, appetizers, photo booth, raffle, and awards dinner—it was quite the red carpet gala. **This event was especially exciting because [Best Practice Medicine's](https://www.bestpracticemedicine.com/) own CEO and Co-founder, Ben King, was a finalist for the 2019 "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award!**
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Topics: [From The CEO](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/from-the-ceo), [Events](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/events), [News](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/tag/news)
## [Why Remarkable Training Matters So Much](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/why-remarkable-training-matters-so-much)
Posted by [Ben King](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/author/ben-king) on March 19, 2019
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“We need the most experienced intubator, right now!!...”
The panic and tears in the patient's eyes is alarming. A lethal combination of pain, hypoxia, low dose paralytics and chaos contribute to her tachycardia, tears, cold clammy skin, rapidly dropping oxygen concentration, and terror.
Our flight team sizes up the case quickly. The patient received the wrong RSI medication package; she is not adequately paralyzed and is partially conscious. Multiple semi awake intubations have been attempted by no fewer than three health care providers, rendering the previously a-traumatic airway bloody and swollen.
[Read More](https://go.bestpracticemedicine.com/blog/why-remarkable-training-matters-so-much)
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