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.
A field-ready guide to safer airway decisions, stronger fundamentals and better patient outcomes.
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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
3 EMS lessons from Minneapolis: EMS duty to the patient, even in uncomfortable situations
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
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Investigators studied favorable neurological outcomes in cases where paramedics were randomized to use endotracheal intubation or supraglottic airways
Distinguishing between COPD and comorbidities, and scaling treatment and pharmacology to disease progression
Researchers have taught Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri to recognize the unique auditory signature of agonal breathing that heralds early cardiac arrest
We’ve all heard about getting ‘back to the basic,’ but sometimes paramedics need to make sure they get back to the advanced, as well
Our co-hosts discuss airway management and its important role in EMS, including common misconceptions and the standard all providers should strive for
Please take a couple moments to answer these multiple-choice questions, which will help us capture how your agency is staying up to date on training for EMS treatment of bariatric patients
As active shooters target different locations and mass gatherings, first responders need to adapt their preparation and response from the rescue task force model
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