Airway management
This directory provides essential articles on Airway Management, a critical skill for EMS professionals. Topics include techniques for securing airways, the use of advanced airway devices, and strategies for managing difficult airways in emergencies. Mastery of Airway Management is vital for ensuring patient survival during respiratory emergencies. For related information, explore our resources on Advanced Life Support (ALS), which often involves advanced airway procedures. Use this directory to deepen your understanding and improve your airway management skills in the field.
Chicago Medical School organization hosts live tissue high-risk, low-frequency airway procedures clinic for paramedics
Stabilizing a patient in despair suffering from tracheostomy bleeding
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Pediatric ETI offers unique challenges not seen in the adult patient. The glottic opening in a child is small and lies further anterior making direct visualization and successful placement more difficult.
Despite the overwhelming amount of literature supporting CPAP use, very few services use it beyond verification of tube placement
Most emergency responders are unequipped with tools to save animals that might be unconscious, but still savable
The $75 kits each contain an emergency leash, laminated directions and three snout-friendly masks
For Howard Snitzer, a 54-year-old chef from Goodhue, Minn., a capnograph kept his rescuers from giving up
Joel Arnier, a paramedic with Addison Fire Protection District said his instincts immediately took over when he saw the girl floating facedown
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Ashland Fire & Rescue firefighter-medics are trained to do CPR on dogs, cats, ferrets, gerbils and even reptiles that have inhaled smoke
The Sheriff’s Office said he contracted the disease while on a 911 call five years ago
Not one of the 30 medics I informally polled had intubated more than three people before being cleared to practice
The tale of how EMS1 columnist Kelly Grayson helped make a save while returning home from EMS Today
EMS systems are working in conjunction with hospitals to begin the process in the field environment and accelerate the cooling rate
He learned cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a mannequin about three decades earlier and got a refresher course about a decade ago
Status asthmaticus is defined as severe, persistent airway obstruction despite initiation of standard acute asthma therapy
You know the old saying, “If a little is good, more is better” – not so if we’re talking about post resuscitation oxygen therapy
With much of our training and preparation designed expressly for this area, it’s important to take note of the changes and to think about implementation
Faced with an enormous backlog of 1,300 calls, the medics were told to quit after 20 minutes and move on to the next case
The decisions we make right now will affect the quality of life for thousands of patients for the rest of our careers
Study showed that cardiac arrest patients who were treated with the ResQPump had a 53 percent better chance of surviving than those who received standard CPR
McGrath Video Laryngoscope proves useful in the prehospital environment
Daughter’s quick action with help from medical dispatcher rescues Rockland woman from choking
Vishwajith Singh never imagined that he would soon be using the CPR techniques he was practicing on a mannequin at work to save someone’s life
Study found skipping mouth-to-mouth CPR and a motivational 911 call taker can make a big difference in saving a life
While EMS provders may not encounter patients on a daily basis that have a tracheostomy as their primary airway, you will encounter a patient like this sometime
Never before have we seen so much improvement in the basic delivery system of our most commonly given and clinically vital drug – oxygen
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