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.
Pediatric patients are not tiny adults; refresh your knowledge of pediatric blunt trauma and take a quiz to check your knowledge
Reviewing the trauma lethal triad: hypothermia, acidosis and coagulopathy
How young patients’ unique anatomy and physiology impact trauma assessment and management
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
While mowing his lawn, a 60-foot tree fell on top of him, crushing his spinal cord and ending his 33-year-long career as a paramedic
Florida State tight end Nick O’Leary walks away after accident on May 2 in Tallahassee
One man suffered a leg amputation after being hit by the car
The woman was riding a six-to seven-foot-tall horse when another smaller animal possibly spooked it
She suffered multiple rib fractures and damage to her right lung that left her in “very grave” condition
The EMT was slashed in the stomach and stabbed in the shoulder
Worst of the injuries are crushed vertebrae and two passengers unable to move their legs
EMTs found two dead dogs and Mr. Wilson with injuries to his face, torso, arms and legs
He hopes his story sends a message of hope to people in similar situations and encourages empathy in others
The man was kneeling outside a school, bloody from the waist down, and parts of the man’s body were transferred to the hospital with him
Insurance stopped paying, cutting his rehabilitation treatment short
