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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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
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
Examining the airway management studies findings on 72-hour survival, ROSC, survival to discharge and favorable neurologic status at discharge
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Train for different BLS and ALS techniques so you can deliver an adequate breath to every patient, every time
Research suggests an association between sodium bicarbonate and decreased survival-to-hospital discharge and worsened neurological status
Teach EMS providers the benefits of waveform capnography in cases involving dyspnea and altered mental status, and before performing advanced airway management
Challenge yourself to overcome clinical weaknesses
Treat acute cardiac syndrome patients with the appropriate order of operations, and consider when traditional treatments may be contraindicated
Titrating naloxone through an intranasal dose through a nebulizer and monitoring with capnography can reduce the risks of opioid withdrawal symptoms to the patient and EMS provider
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