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.
Understand the role of pulse oximetry and waveform capnography to assess and treat patients who are hyperventilating
Steve Whitehead shares how to assess that patient with weird, vague complaints
When you’re on an operation and you can only take what you can carry, what do you choose?
Heated, humidified, high flow nasal cannula oxygenation has a number of benefits that could be useful in a prehospital setting
A randomized clinical trial of ED intubations showed a statistically significant improvement in first pass success rates when using a bougie
CPAP technology and practice in the prehospital environment has evolved for application beyond CHF and COPD
When it comes to respiratory distress calls in the field, EMS providers need to be aware they play a large part of the patient’s continuing care story
Zimori Hall had just completed a one-week “911 Jr. First Responder Camp” where he learned the basics of first aid, CPR training and the Heimlich Maneuver
Our co-hosts discuss the ever-changing practice of airway management
Dr. Jeffrey Jarvis, medical director for Williamson County (Texas) EMS, will discuss why delayed sequence intubation is a cure for Rapid Sequenced Death at EMS PRO conference
Detective Mark Rubins was sitting in the upper section of the Theater at Madison Square Garden at about 11:30 a.m. when he heard a woman yell, “Help! Please!”
With a range of techniques and tools for upper airway suction in the prehospital environment, it’s important to assess the patient and choose the right approach
Dangerous oxygen tank accidents can occur within the ambulance if the cylinders are not cared for properly
Results from a survey showed that most EMS providers are prepared to use supraglottic airway devices because of their training and continued education
One medical director is challenging the current pediatric intubation paradigm, exploring direct and video laryngoscopy
A national database examining five metrics in evidence-based care gives EMS a framework to improve tactics, efficiency, outcomes and resource allocation
Please take two minutes to answer eight survey questions, which will help us capture how your agency is staying up to date on supraglottic airway training
A woman in Michigan contacted the wrong Wayland Fire Department on Facebook when her son started choking and she did not have access to a phone
An AMR ambulance that had been idling caught fire, causing compressed oxygen to blow up and sending shrapnel hurtling through the air in a 100-foot radius
Victoria Cummins is trying to stop the University of Washington from using live pigs to train students on how to open airways in emergency situations
Understand the importance of realistic training on specific devices and using capnography to assess for effective ventilation through supraglottic airways
Video laryngoscopy may improve overall and first-pass success rates for ET intubation by paramedics
How much do you really know about supraglottic airway management uses, contraindications and techniques?
A conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Jarvis on airway management and medical direction
Our co-hosts discuss the development of an apprentice, journeyman and supervisor competency-based training system
You are dispatched to a report of a male patient involved in a bicycle accident
Treat aggressively with high-flow oxygen, rapid sequence intubation and Cyanokit in a patient with evidence of airway burns and CO2 poisoning
The dispatcher gave the boy CPR instructions that he translated to his mother who was trying to save his baby sister
The Inscope Direct is a disposable laryngoscope that gives clinicians a clear view of the airway
Officials learned that before responders arrived, a licensed nurse had “attempted a crude tracheotomy on the victim”
GlideScope Go is designed to provide clear airway views in a wide variety of settings
