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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3 EMS physicians highlight the challenges that prevent a consensus on endotracheal intubation across EMS systems and the importance of case review
Austin Travis County Deputy Medical Director, Dr. Jason Pickett and Ginger Locke discuss the care of patients with a chief complaint of shortness of breath
Flight physician Cynthia M. Griffin shares lessons learned from an emergency surgical cricothyrotomy performed in a prehospital setting
We are beginning to see the initial correlations with COPD that vaping has on our patients’ overall health and respiratory disease exacerbation
From mumps and measles, to the plague and Ebola, it is critical EMS is aware of the outbreaks, syndromes and conditions on the radar of public health
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Dangerous oxygen tank accidents can occur within the ambulance if the cylinders are not cared for properly
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 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
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