Should the EMT scope of practice include supraglottic airway placement?
NAEMSP - EMS1.com Columnists - The NAEMSP Discussion Forum debates EMT training, capnography considerations - By EMS MEd Editor, Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS, FACEP, @maiadorsett - In February, we posted the following Discussion Forum stem: - EMS is dispatched to a cardiac arrest at a residence with bystander CPR in progress. - The...
Webinar: How to get through documentation and reduce risk of Medicare audits
EMS1 Sponsored - A PCR can take 10 times longer than the call, but this webinar can help EMS agencies cut that time and provide complete call information - Webinar sponsored by Forte Holdings iPCR - Register to attend - Yearly Medicare auditing in EMS is not a matter of if, but when. The most common way an agency will get into a...
5 tips to provide safe and effective ventilation
Michael Fraley, BS, BA, NRP - EMS1.com Columnists - Assign someone to monitor the patient’s airway visually and with capnography using these five tips - Your EMS crew has just sat down for dinner on a peaceful evening when the tones sound for an ATV crash. A rural first responder discovered the scene as he was enjoying the trails...
Hyperoxia: Too much of a good thing
Limmer Education - EMS1.com Columnists - Three significant consequences of routine, excessive oxygen administration - By Chris Ebright - Oxygen. We love it, and it keeps us alive. The atmosphere contains 21% oxygen, and we exhale, on average, 16%. Thus, with the billions and billions of cells within our body, they operate using only 5%...
8 questions for critical respiratory compromise patients
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Make every assessment question count using this strategy to quickly assess respiratory patients who are unable to speak in phrases or sentences - Patients in severe respiratory distress or respiratory compromise are often unable to speak more than one or two words at a time, and attempting to do so...
5 tips for securing a patient's airway
Patrick Lickiss - EMS1.com Columnists - You are on scene with a patient who has suffered significant facial trauma; what are some strategies to improve your ability to manage his airway? - One of the first concerns an EMS provider should have about a patient with significant facial trauma is whether the patient has a patent airway and...
Misconceptions about airway management and the industry gold standard
Inside EMS - EMS1.com Columnists - Our co-hosts discuss airway management and its important role in EMS, including common misconceptions and the standard all providers should strive for - In this episode of Inside EMS, co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the topic of airway management. - Airway management is one of the...
Improve endotracheal intubation with First and TEN approach
Rom Duckworth, BS, LP - EMS1.com Columnists - The "set-up, size-up, scope, secure" mindset of the 1st and TEN approach to intubation may help improve first-pass success - This article was originally posted June 20, 2017. It has been updated. - Taking the time to prepare for intubation success on the first pass and following...
