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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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
Harness a passion for care to identify improvement opportunities in clinical specialty areas and propose change
Dr. Dan Spaite shares how to avoid the potential pitfalls in positive-pressure ventilation, hyperventilation and over-ventilation
Here are some ways you can give back to first responders who are responding to the wildfires, often as they lose their own homes
The human body is an ideal training tool, but fire/EMS training protocols and the law must be followed
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You are dispatched to a restaurant for a report of a man choking
Follow the mantra “a patient isn’t dead unless they are warm and dead” based on assessment findings and knowing resuscitation contraindications
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
RSI can be lifesaving when appropriately applied or deadly if not performed with a high-level of proficiency and accuracy
How will you care for a teenager who intentionally asphyxiated himself and is now unresponsive with agonal respirations?
Understand how capnography identifies respiratory and cardiovascular compromise in restrained patients
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Tips for navigating prehospital airway management techniques and challenges