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Shawna Renga

Patient Assessment Update

Shawna Renga, AS, NREMT-P, currently works as an instructor for the United States Coast Guard Medical Support Services School in Petaluma, Calif., providing EMT training for helicopter rescue swimmers and Coast Guard corpsmen. She also works part-time for a private ambulance company, and lives with her husband and two sons in Sausalito.

LATEST ARTICLES
Patient Handling
SAE Standards for ambulance safety
Recommendations from SAE describe specific testing standards to minimize the risk of injury to providers and patients during an ambulance collision
March 30, 2016 04:48 PM
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Shawna Renga
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AED
Law enforcement officers as medical first responders can save lives
Police only need minimal training and equipment to treat patients in cardiac arrest, opiate overdose or severe bleeding
August 27, 2015 05:13 PM
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Shawna Renga
Airway Management
Airway management with an algorithmic approach
EMS providers need to use a systematic method for airway assessment and management
July 31, 2015 04:49 PM
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Shawna Renga
Neonatal/Pediatric
Broadening the approach to pediatric assessment
Obesity-related diseases, vaccine preventable disease, mental illness and the need for education should all be considered in the prehospital setting
June 30, 2015 06:24 PM
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Shawna Renga
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Patient Handling
More than just a litter: Advances in patient transport
Technological and engineering innovations are making patient transport safer and less stressful
May 29, 2015 07:19 PM
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Shawna Renga
Patient Handling
Beyond backboards: Moving and extricating trauma patients
Scoop stretchers, soft tarps, KEDs, and vacuum splints may all be useful when moving a patient with modified spinal motion restriction
April 30, 2015 07:44 PM
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Shawna Renga
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Airway Management
How EMS use of ventilators has evolved
Advances in technology should continue to create ventilators that are smaller, more user friendly, and easily adaptable to the pre-hospital environment
March 02, 2015 03:43 PM
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Shawna Renga
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More than a tube: Capnography as an every day tool
The use of waveform capnography as a monitoring and diagnostic tool extends far beyond airway management and cardiac arrest
February 01, 2015 03:48 PM
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Shawna Renga
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Keeping the beat: Advances in CPR training
The future of CPR training should include simulation manikins, real-time feedback devices, and smartphone technology
December 29, 2014 02:40 PM
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Shawna Renga