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.
Waveform capnography provides real-time feedback that BLS providers can use to make treatment decisions and improve care
The use of waveform capnography as a monitoring and diagnostic tool extends far beyond airway management and cardiac arrest
Application of an EtCO2 sampling device and waveform monitoring, especially during bag-valve mask ventilation, is well within the capability of EMTs
Medics have an increasing array of tools to choose from to treat a tension pneumothorax
The objective is to optimize circulating oxygen and carbon dioxide
Pediatric asthma related illness is one of the more common reasons for emergent EMS responses
This medication is notorious as a street drug and with good reason
Sometimes the mark of a great medic is in the things that aren’t done
The 9- and 10-year-old boys were outside playing when they heard the mother screaming for help
The number of CPAP devices continues to grow
With extended battery life and easy to use controls, this unit makes CCT easier
Capnography is standard of care for all intubated patients and should be for all major medical patients
The fact is more children are stabilized and life threats averted through the provision of the basics
The anatomic differences between adult and pediatric airways are well described in EMT and paramedic courses
An autopsy revealed that Edward Archbold had died from choking and not from contaminated insects as others theorized
Monitoring ETCO2 with waveform capnography gives EMS providers real-time feedback to make treatment decisions and improve care for a multitude of medical problems and traumatic injuries
Interesting products were demonstrated at the European Resuscitation Council 2012 Congress in Vienna, Austria, last week
CPAP for emergency management of congestive heart failure and other respiratory emergencies has become the standard of care
CPAP is one EMS treatment modality that has an evidence-based effect on patient outcomes
American Medical Response locally implementing new artificial airway, LMA Supreme
A local veterinary hospital donated 33 oxygen masks to the Murrieta Fire Dept.
Kirsten Stokes thanked Steve Walker at reunion organized at her home
Heart of the pack is i-gel airway, now with both oxygen port and suction port
The drug we use most often in EMS can cause harm if we give it without good reason
Despite lack of evidence demonstrating superiority over ETI, SGAs do offer logistical and tactical advantages during resuscitation attempt
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Skillful airway management is often 1st step in successful resuscitation of compromised patient
Early effective ventilation may be more important for these patients than for adult victims of cardiac arrest
CPAP should be classified as non-invasive therapy and be entirely suitable for use by EMTs and first responders
Reviewing your processes and devices on a regular basis is critical for agencies
Pioneers such as Trousseau and Trendelenburg really refined and popularized the operation
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