Trauma
Prepare for patients who experience blunt-force or penetrating trauma with news, research, expert-written columns, podcasts and original videos in the EMS1 Trauma topic.
Learn what’s changed in the 2021 ACS FTG and how to implement the trauma triage guidelines
Follow these steps to define roles, identify and mitigate hazards, and work toward the best possible patient outcome
Pediatric patients are not tiny adults; refresh your knowledge of pediatric blunt trauma and take a quiz to check your knowledge
Despite the lack of long-term benefits, antiarrhythmic medication administration remains a part of current resuscitation recommendations for patients who present with or develop lethal ventricular arrhythmias
Here are some ways the design and materials used to obtain vascular access have evolved into what we use today
Without violating patient confidentiality, what are some of those crazy cases you’ll never forget? Add your stories to the comments
It delivers vital information about a patient while en route to the hospital so doctors can move more quickly when a patient arrives
Remember the FALTER acronym to make sure you call for a helicopter transport when time really counts
A record number of medical calls were made in August; officials say the heat and aging baby boomers contributed to the numbers
Here are a few of the ways that CO2 monitoring is helpful in the prehospital environment
Waveform capnography is exciting technology that has the potential to become very useful in the prehospital setting
Doctors extracted the fork free using forceps and ‘copious lubrication’ while the man was under general anesthetic
Gear doesn’t have to be expensive to be effective
Your understanding of standard operating procedure may evolve from rulebook to guidebook
Two tripping points that can be a challenge when evaluating impaired consciousness levels with the Glasgow Coma Score
In this episode, Dr. David Tan explains what EMS providers need to know about tourniquets and how to avoid potential mistakes in their use
He woke up with a “burning pain” in his mid-section and noticed the dog had blood on its muzzle and front feet
He fatally beat a college student with a baseball bat because he thought the teen had laughed at him
