Airway management
Explore EMS1’s airway management hub for practical guidance on securing and maintaining patient airways in the field. This directory features expert articles on basic and advanced airway techniques, use of airway devices, ventilation strategies, difficult airway management, and clinical decision points for prehospital care. It helps EMS professionals refine airway skills, improve first-pass success, and enhance patient outcomes during respiratory emergencies.
Becoming a paramedic is the highest level of prehospital care and requires much more advanced training than becoming an EMT
Steve Whitehead shares CPAP contraindications
Take your time to get that tube smoothly, non-traumatically into trachea on 1st pass
Common respiration pathologies and those that impair ventilation
A detailed patient history and physical examination inform this diagnosis of exclusion after a brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE)
Marley Madureira had earned her first aid training badge after her troop met with paramedics and a nurse
Gaston County EMS leadership embarked on a plan to equip every transport-capable ALS unit in Gaston County with a ventilator
Adams County Fire Rescue Paramedic Cody Grove witnessed North Suburban Medical Center X-ray Technician Kasey Wichael dislodge an object the child was choking on
Use this strategy when applying capnography to measure the efficacy of oxygen therapy, especially when troubleshooting
“With every role we take during our career, in a way, we are auditioning for the next”
The employee said Timesha Beauchamp was breathing and her tongue was moving when she was found alive after being declared dead
Prehospital caveats for non-invasive and invasive airway management as we learn more about the pathophysiology of COVID-19
Ask the right questions, watch for symptoms that could point to bronchiolitis over pediatric asthma and treat accordingly
In this episode, learn the 5 emergent conditions that will kill patients experiencing shortness of breath, and how to use ETCO2 to develop a differential
The work of breathing can go up and oxygen saturation can go down when the patient and the equipment are not in sync
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
