Airway management
This directory provides essential articles on Airway Management, a critical skill for EMS professionals. Topics include techniques for securing airways, the use of advanced airway devices, and strategies for managing difficult airways in emergencies. Mastery of Airway Management is vital for ensuring patient survival during respiratory emergencies. For related information, explore our resources on Advanced Life Support (ALS), which often involves advanced airway procedures. Use this directory to deepen your understanding and improve your airway management skills in the field.
Are you over-ventilating your patients? Probably, says Kelly Grayson
You are on scene with a patient who has suffered significant facial trauma; what are some strategies to improve your ability to manage his airway?
The man’s wife filed a federal lawsuit after 11 fire department employees admitted to performing 15 “tube checks” on his body on the floor of the fire station
Pre-hospital management of a traumatic brain injury: Saline, ketamine, TXA and finding the CO2 sweet spot
The plaintiff alleges medical negligence in the treatment of the man, who has been in a vegetative state since a respiratory episode in 2018
MCHD medical directors discuss three promising treatments for COVID-19, return to work guidance and complications presenting in pediatric patients
How do you assess and manage a patient with bradycardia?
Protect EMS providers while preventing the unnecessary depletion of already diminished PPE supplies
A study from King County, Washington, characterizes COVID-19 patients receiving care from EMS
Understanding the pathophysiology of difficulty breathing and different methods of delivering airway pressure
A loaded gurney with equipment was being brought into the jail when a bag with an oxygen bottle fell off, engulfing the officer in flames
Three significant consequences of routine, excessive oxygen administration
3 EMS lessons from Minneapolis: EMS duty to the patient, even in uncomfortable situations
Brick Police Sgt. Charlie Kelly used the Heimlich maneuver after EMT Katelyn Lammer began choking on her food
Our co-hosts discuss the recent events in Minnesota, and the misinformation regarding the use of the word asphyxia
Understanding the sequelae of traumatic asphyxia, strangulation and positional asphyxia
George Tech Graduate Student Kentez Craig has helped in the production of thousands of face shields and 200 protective intubation boxes
EMS providers know positional asphyxiation can kill, and have a professional and moral obligation to object to it
What we can learn about EMS responsibility to intervene from the death of George Floyd
Wren Nealy Jr., Cypress Creek EMS chief operating officer, relates how BWCs have contributed to personnel safety, QA/QI
New South Wales Ambulance has reportedly instructed its crews to avoid procedures that put them at risk of COVID-19 exposure
Triage burn victims for inhalation injury and fluid administration by putting these four pieces of the puzzle together
Scenario: EMS work through resuscitation and management strategies when they respond to a call for pediatric drowning and find the child in cardiac arrest
Technological advances and training are moving hemorrhage control techniques from the battlefield to prehospital and emergency medicine
Firefighter-paramedics rapidly implement new ideas to curb infection
Test your knowledge of COVID-19 best practices and up-to-date information
A Texas fire department is trialing the new method of giving oxygen through a patient’s nose
Examining the airway management studies findings on 72-hour survival, ROSC, survival to discharge and favorable neurologic status at discharge
The boxes are designed to go over a patient’s head during airway management procedures and trap aerosol contaminants
University of Washington EM physicians update on COVID-19 atypical presentation, airway management and N95 cleaning
Robert Murray Jr, NRP, MS, shares the components of a waveform and common capnography pitfalls
