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.
Where capnography can guide treatment in complex medical scenarios
Steve Whitehead will tell you why your BVM technique needs to go in this episode
Are those historical skills a blessing or a curse?
Procedures/devices that ensure an open pathway for gas exchange between a patient’s lungs and the atmosphere
Two customers broke his fall and desperately tried to help him until paramedics arrived
Two nursing students immediately began lifesaving measures and were quickly joined by police officers and paramedics
The free 3-D simulation app is an interactive and virtual patient airway simulator
High school freshman Ian Brown was at lunch when his classmate Will Olson started choking
Jonathan Arteaga was working on a mobile home when a jack gave way and the home pinned his knees to his chest
Our co-hosts discuss the use of CPAP in the field and its pathophysiology
Pediatric patients need to be handled with care using these five expert tips.
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You are on scene with a patient who was choking on food; is your primary assessment as efficient as possible?
You are dispatched to a restaurant for a report of a man choking
Using ventilator settings to correct pH imbalance
Follow the mantra “a patient isn’t dead unless they are warm and dead” based on assessment findings and knowing resuscitation contraindications
In 2016, Heimlich himself was the hero, saving a woman choking on food at his senior living center
Capnography guided care gives EMS providers the information they need to improve survival for patients who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Hypothermia death of a Minn. teen is an unimaginable tragedy, but a breach is not enough for a finding of negligence
Jason Schneider is accused of inflicting head trauma to his then 4-month-old son
The parents of Jake Anderson, 19, allege first responders declared their son dead before properly evaluating and transporting him to a hospital
A paramedic performed a thoracostomy on Sandy Kelley, a move that doctors said likely saved her life
RSI can be lifesaving when appropriately applied or deadly if not performed with a high-level of proficiency and accuracy
Fairbanks Paramedic Academy graduates and students took home first place in every category, crediting their training and education for their wins
How will you care for a teenager who intentionally asphyxiated himself and is now unresponsive with agonal respirations?
Mirranda Grace Lawson had been on life support since May after she choked on a piece of popcorn.
Understand how capnography identifies respiratory and cardiovascular compromise in restrained patients
