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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
Does a patient’s skin color affect how EMS manages pain?
A variety of medical conditions and patient presentations warrant prehospital blood glucose analysis
While working in an infectious environment, taking precautions is key
Transporting dead patients is a risky procedure with no benefit
Hemorrhagic shock is a subset of hypovolemic shock that results from a decrease in circulating blood volume
This study could not find any significant outcome differences between patients who receive a brief period of CPR and those who receive a longer period of CPR before rhythm analysis.
Increasing the amount of hands-on time in chest compressions improves ROSC, but survival to discharge is uncertain
Although not foolproof, technology may offer some assistance in reducing drug diversion by EMS personnel
Current AHA guidelines recommend medication doses based on weight, but the tape seemed to accurately guess weight of the sample size just nearly half the time
Mechanism that inhibits long-term favorable neurologic outcome after epinephrine despite initial hemodynamic improvement remains unexplained