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

Substance Abuse

Prove It: Racial Bias in Prehospital Analgesia

Does a patient’s skin color affect how EMS manages pain?

June 11, 2013 05:01 AM

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Ambulance Disposable Supplies

Blood glucose test for altered mental status

A variety of medical conditions and patient presentations warrant prehospital blood glucose analysis

May 31, 2013 10:33 AM

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Drug resistant bacteria in the prehospital environment

While working in an infectious environment, taking precautions is key

May 06, 2013 05:31 PM

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Prove it: Transporting patients in cardiac arrest improves outcome

Transporting dead patients is a risky procedure with no benefit

April 15, 2013 03:23 PM

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Trauma

Assessment and management of hemorrhagic shock

Hemorrhagic shock is a subset of hypovolemic shock that results from a decrease in circulating blood volume

March 31, 2013 10:56 AM

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Prove it: Performing CPR before rhythm analysis makes a difference in cardiac arrest outcome

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.

March 11, 2013 04:21 PM

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Prove It: Improving CPR Quality Increases ROSC Rates

Increasing the amount of hands-on time in chest compressions improves ROSC, but survival to discharge is uncertain

January 16, 2013 04:24 PM

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Technology and drug diversion

Although not foolproof, technology may offer some assistance in reducing drug diversion by EMS personnel

December 03, 2012 05:31 AM

Kenny Navarro

Prove It: Accuracy of the Broselow Pediatric Emergency Tape at predicting weight

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

November 13, 2012 08:59 AM

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Prove it: Giving epinephrine early during cardiac arrest improves neurological outcome

Mechanism that inhibits long-term favorable neurologic outcome after epinephrine despite initial hemodynamic improvement remains unexplained

September 27, 2012 06:12 AM

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