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Podcast: Inside EMS
Episode: AHA 2025 updates are here: Cue the overreactions and the protocol rewrites
Description: In this week’s episode of the Inside EMS podcast, cohosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson dive into the 2025 AHA Guidelines for CPR & ECC and why, for most EMS systems and crews, this feels more like a tune up than a full overhaul. They talk through what is different — like the adult/child choking algorithm change, the inclusion of an opioid overdose response algorithm with public naloxone access, and the shift to a single unified chain of survival across ages and settings.
They also talk about what isn’t new (for example, the recommendation that routine mechanical CPR de...