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• Serial killers: Altered mental status

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  In this episode learn the 5 diagnoses for altered mental status that can kill your patient emergently

• Lactate and sepsis: 10 things you need to know to save lives

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  Lactate may be used to identify a common killer in the prehospital environment

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  Webinar: From Patient Zero to present: Combatting a national outbreak with a data-driven approach

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  ESO - EMS1

  A firsthand perspective on COVID-19 in EMS and fire and how data can help shape your agency's response

• 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

• Treat the monitor, not just the patient

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  In some cases, our medical monitoring equipment alert is the precursor to a rapidly deteriorating patient who appears normal

• What EMS needs to know about new pediatric sepsis guidelines

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  EMS providers have a key role in initial emergency care for pediatric patients with sepsis

• 5 ways you’re not getting everything out of your cardiac monitor

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  Follow these EMS tips to measure mean arterial pressure, monitor sepsis, rule out DKA and ensure high-quality CPR

• 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. 

• 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

• 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

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