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 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
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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
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
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Tips for navigating prehospital airway management techniques and challenges