EMS Author

EMS Educator

EMS & RESTRAINT ISSUES Consultant
and Expert Witness

CHAS’ EMS EDUCATION

• 1986 Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician – Paramedic
• 1986 EMT-Basic Instructor; Southeast Community College, Lincoln NE
• 1985 Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Instructor; American Heart Association
• 1985 EMT-Paramedic/ACLS provider; Prehospital Education Program;
  Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha NE
• 1985 Combat Medical Specialist; US Army Academy of Health Sciences;
  Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX
• 1984 American Heart Association CPR Instructor; Lincoln NE
• 1983 EMT-Basic; Southeast Community College, Lincoln NE
• 1979 Psychiatric Care Technician; Lincoln Regional Center
  (a State Psychiatric Facility), Lincoln, NE

CHAS’ EMS EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• 1984 - present: EMERGENCY PROCEDURES EDUCATOR:
  Specializing in Restraint Asphyxia education for prehospital and inhospital care-providers; staff of residential, vocational, and treatment centers for developmentally disabled or mentally ill individuals; law enforcement, security, correctional, and fire personnel; on a privately contracted basis.
  Additionally specializing in Patient Communication issues & techniques education.

• 1990 - present: EMS AUTHOR:
  EMT-B National Standards Self Test 3rd edition (5 editions total)
  Paramedic National Standards Self Test, 4th edition (5th edition in process)
  Taigman's Advanced Cardiology (In Plain English)
  The JEMS EMS Pocket Guide
  Miscellaneous Journal and Internet Articles regarding EMS and restraint issues.

• 1996 - present: EMERGENCY MEDICINE CONSULTANT:
  Providing National and International consultation for emergency responders, attorneys & others.
  Member of the “Medical Issues Awareness Advisory Board” for the CRISIS PREVENTION INSTITUTE
  since the board’s inception in June, 2001.
  I provide “EXPERT WITNESS” consultation, reports and testimony for any EMS issues – but, I primarily specialize in RESTRAINT ASPHYXIA cases.

• 1989 - 1998: Paramedic for the City & County of Denver Paramedic Division,
  Denver Health Medical Center (formerly known as, "Denver General Hospital"), Denver, CO.
  Field-operating Paramedic, responding to 911 calls within the City & County of Denver.

• 1988 - 1989: Paramedic, Ambulance Service Company, Denver, CO.

• 1986 - 1988: Paramedic, A-1 Ambulance Systems, Cheyenne, WY and Colorado Springs, CO.

• 1984 - 1988: Combat Helicopter Medic
  Nebraska Army National Guard (ARNG), 24th Med Air Ambulance Co.
  Wyoming ARNG, 1022nd Med Detachment, Air Ambulance Co.
  Colorado ARNG, 147th Medical Hospital (100B).

• 1979 - '80 & 1983 - '86: Psychiatric Care Technician & EMT-Basic.
  Employed by the State of Nebraska, Lincoln Regional Center (a State Psychiatric Hospital). Experience included Adult Acute Care & Male Security (“Forensic”) psychiatric care units.

To receive Charly’s “ENTIRE” Consultation & Expert Witness Curriculum Vitae:
Email her at: c-d-miller@neb.rr.com and ask for it!
(Plz be clear about WHO you are and WHY you want it. LOL)

An emergency medicine instructor since 1984, and a field-operating Paramedic since 1985, Charly D. Miller has become an Internationally-known EMS Educator, Author and Consultant. She retired from patient-care provision in 1998 and currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her last ten years of Paramedic patient-care-provision were performed while working the streets of Denver, Colorado. Considering her additional years of patient-care-provision experience as an in-hospital Psychiatric Medical Technician and an Army National Guard Helicopter Medic, Charly clearly is a seasoned (well-experienced) emergency care provider. Furthermore, since 1984, Charly has consistently demonstrated that she is one of the United States’ most exciting and entertaining Educators.

Charly's Personal-Specialty Educational Topics Include:

• RESTRAINT ASPHYXIA – SILENT KILLER;
  Understanding the causes of (& how to AVOID causing) Restraint Asphyxia

• ALL TIED UP & NO PLACE TO GO; EMS Patient Restraint Issues & Techniques
  WHEN, WHY, and HOW to apply safe and effective patient restraint.

• BECAUSE I SAID SO!; Patient Communication Techniques
  [Including “General” patient communication, Pediatric patient communication,
  and Geriatric patient communication programs.]

• NEED THE INFO!; Patient Interview Techniques
  [Presenting a variety of Patient Interview “SECRETS” programs.]

Charly’s most popular texts are those published by BRADY (Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster):
The EMT-Basic and Paramedic National Standards Self-Test textbooks, and
(as lead-co-author) Taigman's Advanced Cardiology (In Plain English).
She also is the author of the Jems EMS Pocket Guide, published by Mosby Lifeline.

In addition to the EMS textbooks she’s written, Charly has been a contributing-author for
EMS magazines, such as the Journal of Emergency Medicine (JEMS),
and several Internet EMS “WebZines,” such as MERGInet.com.

OF HERSELF, CHARLY SAYS:

“I have mostly-brown hair, Entirely brown eyes, A very big mouth, Several Kats, some Fresh-Water-Fishes – And all the rest changes with little notice!”

Email Charly at: c-d-miller@neb.rr.com
Those are hyphens/dashes between the “c” and “d” and “miller”