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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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
Because every patient is different, EMS providers must have a range of airway skills and a strong degree of experience
Patients do not die from failure to intubate, but failure to oxygenate. When in doubt, pull out the tube.
A single prehospital treatment protocol for respiratory distress from asthma or COPD is reasonable
Paramedic chiefs and EMS leaders can ensure pediatric patients receive the correct care with right preparation, equipment and training
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Video is a great visual demonstration of anatomy and angiocath placement, but the result is NOT what EMS providers should expect or experience in the field
We asked EMS1 readers to share their knowledge and use of capnography during patient care
What are the causes of the patient’s distress and what treatments are indicated?
Each author explores the other side of impassioned debates on naloxone, endotracheal intubation, STEMI alerts, professionalism, and lecture-based education
Learn about pediatric lung diseases that present with asthma-like symptoms to EMS providers
You are asked to respond to the soccer field at the local middle school; did you get the treatment steps right?
You are asked to respond to the soccer field at the local middle school
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