EMS Capnography News & Articles

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Webinar: Capnography: Everything you wanted to know and were afraid to ask

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  Capnography experts will answer some of the most common questions first responders have

• EPIC: An EMS-centered approach to head injuries

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  Through the EPIC treatment, EMS providers are taught to focus on the three H-bombs to prevent further damage to head injuries

• EMS Index looks at key performance metrics nationwide

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  A national database examining five metrics in evidence-based care gives EMS a framework to improve tactics, efficiency, outcomes and resource allocation

• 3 things EMS providers need to know about supraglottic airways

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  Understand the importance of realistic training on specific devices and using capnography to assess for effective ventilation through supraglottic airways

• Prove it: Video laryngoscope usage in airway management

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  Video laryngoscopy may improve overall and first-pass success rates for ET intubation by paramedics

• Quiz: Test your knowledge of supraglottic airway devices

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  How much do you really know about supraglottic airway management uses, contraindications and techniques?

• Quiz: Understanding acid-base issues in EMS

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  How well do you know the conditions associated with pH imbalances?

• Quiz: Capnography for kids: Unique considerations

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  Test your knowledge on the challenges of assessing and treating children with capnography

• A delicate balance: Understanding acid-base issues in EMS patients

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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

• 3 scenarios to train for diagnosis, treatment of sepsis

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  Use simulation education to teach EMS providers to recognize and treat sepsis

• 4 things EMS providers need to know about pulmonary embolism

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  Careful diagnosis of respiratory and circulatory compromise will help you choose the most appropriate treatment and destination for patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

• 5 things to know about endotracheal intubation

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  From the 1500s until today, techniques for placing a tube into the trachea have continuously evolved and will continue to improve in the future

• How to treat sudden cardiac arrest, opioid overdose

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  An unconscious patient, with absent or ineffective breathing, may be in sudden cardiac arrest or have overdosed on an opioid; here's how to assess and treat the patient

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