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• 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

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  Webinar: Ensuring responder safety while responding to sudden cardiac arrest during COVID-19

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  Looking to safely treat SCA patients during a pandemic? We got you covered.

• 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

• 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.

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