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• 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

• Remember 2 Things: Capnography – head injury and sepsis

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  In this episode of Remember 2 Things, columnist Steve Whitehead offers two ways capnography can be helpful in treating patients with head injuries or who present as septic. 

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  10 things you need to know about acute pain management

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  EMS providers must have a thorough understanding of pain assessment tools and options for acute pain management, especially with the recent focus on opioid abuse

• STEMI, stroke, sepsis and ROSC: A decade for EMS systems of care

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  In the coming decade, EMS will be engaged in even more efforts to triage patients in the field to route them to the most appropriate hospitals

• 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

• When a stroke is not a stroke: A case study

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  In 20-25% of cases, stroke symptoms and signs represent a stroke mimic, such as hypoglycemia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis or infection

• Tackling sepsis: How to diagnose, treat and manage it

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  Our co-hosts sit down with award-winning speaker and author Rommie Duckworth, who explains how to diagnose, treat and manage septic patients

• 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

• Sepsis deaths prompt changes in Minn. health system

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  Allina Health started re-examining sepsis in 2014 after learning that the condition was three times more lethal than strokes and heart attacks

• EMS quality improvement through clinical specialty teams

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  Harness a passion for care to identify improvement opportunities in clinical specialty areas and propose change

• Aspiring paramedic dies of sepsis days after complaining of cold

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  Jessica Holbrook’s family is campaigning to raise awareness of sepsis after Holbrook died five days after she had a sore throat and a cough

• Retired firefighter-EMT survives life-threatening infection

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  Tom Laumann was diagnosed with pneumonia with sepsis after suffering back spasms and a dry cough and became unable to breathe

• Webinar: How can prehospital providers quickly identify and treat sepsis?

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  Research suggests that every 2 minutes someone dies from sepsis in the U.S. – that's more than from prostate cancer, breast cancer and AIDS combined. Saving patients from this deadly infection is a race against time. Sepsis unleashes havoc, indiscriminately claiming the lives of millions of men, women and children every year. Sepsis is a menace that has been lurking in the EMS world ’s underbelly for generations. In honor of National Sepsis Awareness Month, this webinar will reveal the knowledge you need to identify and combat this deadly killer.

• What is sepsis

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  Sepsis explainer video from Kaiser Health News introduces signs and symptoms of sepsis and immediate care steps. Learn more about sepsis and 10 things you need to know to save lives.

• Avoidable sepsis infections send thousands of older patients to gruesome deaths

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  A federal report found that care related to sepsis was the most common reason given for transfers of nursing home residents to hospitals

• Sepsis alert: How to diagnose septic shock

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  Decreasing mortality through recognizing, reporting, and treating sepsis in the field

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