Doctor Matt Letizia is a board-certified attending emergency physician who lives in Sea Bright. The 2020 summer season was Matt's first year on the beach patrol and we couldn't have been more stoked to have a front-line emergency physician in the mix. Dr. Letizia was voted as NJ's EMS physician of the year in 2018 while leading several other EMS programs in central NJ. However, there's no place like home and Dr Letizia is focused on taking our EMT program to the next level by officially accepting appointment as the patrol's permanent medical director. Under the good doctor's guidance our EMT's and rescue team personnel will become even more proficient in life threat intervention and airway management. Our team will be utilizing tools like CPAP, and PEEP for acute respiratory emergencies and drowning resuscitation. For cardiac arrest resuscitation our team practices high-performance CCR (CPR) using passive high-flow FiO2 oxygenation coupled with lightening quick AED deployment.  Thanks to Dr Letizia's leadership we have become a legitimate part of the NJ state EMS system. In 2022 our lifeguard EMT's will be carrying medications like Narcan for opiate overdose, epinephrine, and bronchodilators for anaphylaxis as well as aspirin and nitroglycerin for heart attacks. If you happen to see Dr Letizia on beach patrol, reach out and say hello to our town's very first lifeguard-physician medical director.