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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A basic understanding of how acid-base imbalances can affect the patient’s presentation can help make sense of conflicting symptoms
First responders can use their status as respected community figures to reduce the risk for drowning
Allina Health EMS leaders discuss the importance of a strong relationship between operational leaders and the medical director
Procedures/devices that ensure an open pathway for gas exchange between a patient’s lungs and the atmosphere
Our co-hosts discuss the use of CPAP in the field and its pathophysiology
The top videos of February included clips on how to conduct accurate glucometer readings and how to do more good than harm during intubations
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A comic for EMS drawing off the real experiences of EMS
Automatic transport ventilators may improve ventilation rate, tidal volume and oxygenation for patients needing airway management and ventilator support
Temperature, lactate and ETCO2 monitoring may provide field personnel with objective evidence to make a more accurate field diagnosis of systemic inflammatory response syndrome
Paramedics are increasingly likely to transport patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation machines and some systems are testing ECMO for refractory cardiac arrest
An in-depth analysis of the research based updates for the treatment of out of hospital cardiac arrest
Understand how using end-tidal carbon dioxide to confirm placement of advanced airways and guide patient care
In-depth insights into the expert recommendations for medications, airway insertion and confirmation, defibrillation and post-arrest care
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Tips for navigating prehospital airway management techniques and challenges