EMS Capnography News & Articles

• NAEMSP 2020 Quick Take: The Great Airway Debate

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  3 EMS physicians highlight the challenges that prevent a consensus on endotracheal intubation across EMS systems and the importance of case review

• DKA and sepsis capnography applications

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  In this episode, our co-hosts welcome Medtronic's Holly Stewart, who explains the history of capnography and offers insight into its use for DKA and sepsis monitoring

• Vaping implications for prehospital clinical care

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  We are beginning to see the initial correlations with COPD that vaping has on our patients’ overall health and respiratory disease exacerbation

• Preventing medication errors in EMS

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  Our co-hosts discuss a news story out of Tennessee that could have implications for EMS providers who administer medication

• All things stroke-related: Diagnosis, treatment and transportation

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  In this episode, our co-hosts discuss the different types of strokes providers will encounter, how to treat each, and stroke patient transport procedures

• Webinar: The value of end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring – it ain’t just for tube confirmation anymore!

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  Learn how end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring can be a powerful tool for detecting physiological changes associated with sepsis, diabetes and more

• Training Day: How EMTs should be using capnography

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  Application of an EtCO2 sampling device and waveform monitoring, especially during bag-valve mask ventilation, is well within the capability of EMTs

• How to buy capnography equipment (eBook)

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  Download this EMS1 capnography equipment buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• 5 tips for airway management in the bariatric patient

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  Pre-oxygenate, evaluate for LEMONS and position a patient of any size correctly to help secure an airway

• Back to the advanced

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  We’ve all heard about getting ‘back to the basic,’ but sometimes paramedics need to make sure they get back to the advanced, as well

• Opioid overdose: Fact vs. fiction

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  A case study in opioid overdose complications, management strategies and provider safety

• Training Day: Breaking down signs of sepsis

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  Design your training scenario to include increasingly complicated sepsis symptoms to test EMS providers’ differential diagnosis skills

• It ain’t easy being wheezy: A pediatric case study

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  Learn how to assess, monitor and manage pediatric asthma emergencies, as well as underlying pathophysiologic changes

• 4 things EMS providers need to know about hyperventilation syndrome

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  Understand the role of pulse oximetry and waveform capnography to assess and treat patients who are hyperventilating

• Training Day: 3 scenarios where capnography is a must

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  Teach EMS providers the benefits of waveform capnography in cases involving dyspnea and altered mental status, and before performing advanced airway management

• Training Day: 3 simulation scenarios to teach unplanned extubation to paramedics

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  Use high-fidelity patient simulation to teach ALS providers the danger and assessment of unplanned extubation

• Bledsoe: Titrate intranasal naloxone to restore respirations

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  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

• 5 things to know about capnography

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  Understand the importance of monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide and the valuable information it provides for patient assessment and treatment

• The flipped classroom: Capnography in use

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  The flipped classroom is an inquiry-based learning strategy designed to improve student engagement, discovery and outcomes

• NAEMSP 2019 Quick Take: 3 bad players in EMS airway management

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  Dr. Dan Spaite shares how to avoid the potential pitfalls in positive-pressure ventilation, hyperventilation and over-ventilation

• Training day: 3 Waveform capnography scenarios

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  Help student paramedics identify CHF, Curare cleft and ROSC in capnography waveforms, and develop a treatment plan

• Research Analysis: Intubation curriculum increases first pass success

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  A study of over 5,000 intubations demonstrates the value of continuous quality improvement

• Quiz: How much do you know about sepsis?

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  Take our 5-minute quiz to find out how your assessment skills measure up

• 5 tips to provide safe and effective ventilation

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  Assign someone to monitor the patient’s airway visually and with capnography using these five tips

• Quiz: 4 things EMS providers need to know about pulmonary embolism

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  When a patient’s life is in your hands, you need to know the risk factors, signs and symptoms of PE

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