Kenny Navarro

The Research Review

Kenny Navarro is Chief of EMS Education Development in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. He also serves as the AHA Training Center Coordinator for Tarrant County College. Mr. Navarro serves as an Emergency Cardiovascular Care Content Consultant for the American Heart Association, served on two education subcommittees for NIH-funded research projects, as the Coordinator for the National EMS Education Standards Project, and as an expert writer for the National EMS Education Standards Implementation Team.

LATEST ARTICLES

CPR & Resuscitation

Prove It: Dual defibrillation of refractory ventricular fibrillation

What’s the evidence that delivery of dual defibrillation improves survival outcomes for patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and fail to respond to conventional therapy?

May 15, 2017 11:27 AM

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Stroke Care

Prove It: Mobile stroke care improves patient outcome

A mobile stroke unit offers specially trained personnel and equipment which can provide remote diagnosis and evidence-based management to patients for definitive treatment

March 13, 2017 10:20 AM

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Pharmacology

Prove It: Epinephrine may have a role during resuscitation from cardiac arrest

Measuring the time to epinephrine administration as a continuous variable shows time-dependent nature of epinephrine administration

January 09, 2017 10:27 AM

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Cardiac Care

Prove It: Administering dextrose during cardiac arrest improves outcomes

Understand why dextrose given during prehospital resuscitation from cardiac arrest may actually decrease the chance of survival to hospital discharge

October 24, 2016 10:54 AM

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CPR & Resuscitation

Prove It: Real-time feedback devices improve CPR training

Researchers measured the impact several CPR feedback or prompt devices had on chest compression depth, compression rate recoil and hand position

August 22, 2016 02:58 PM

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Airway Management

Prove it: Is it asthma or COPD?

A single prehospital treatment protocol for respiratory distress from asthma or COPD is reasonable

July 12, 2016 06:32 PM

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Bleeding Control

Public use of tourniquets, bleeding control kits

Bystander application of a tourniquet to ‘Stop the Bleed’ may mean the difference between life and death for a patient with severe hemorrhage

May 31, 2016 11:12 AM

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Cardiac Care

Prove It: Antiarrhythmics improve survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Understand the findings of the amiodarone vs. lidocaine vs. plain saline (ALPS) trial and what those findings mean for EMS providers

April 12, 2016 12:44 PM

Kenny Navarro

CPR & Resuscitation

Prove It: Mechanical chest compression devices vs. manual compressions

Meta-analysis of the available research looks at primary and secondary patient outcomes of applying mechanical chest compression devices following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

March 28, 2016 08:33 AM

Kenny Navarro

EMS1 Research Center

Prove It: Oxygen therapy improves outcomes following AMI

Recent study suggests it may be safe to withhold oxygen from normoxic patients who are suffering from AMI

February 05, 2016 07:53 PM

Kenny Navarro