Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Apply waveform capnography to make informed clinical decisions before, during, and after cardiac arrest patient care - By Bob Sullivan -
Waveform capnography provides continuous feedback on CPR quality, confirmation of airway placement, ventilation, and a return or loss of circulation. Here are five...
NAEMSP - EMS1.com Columnists - Waveform capnography provides a non-invasive, accurate assessment of a patient’s ventilatory status - By Adrien Quant LP, Hashim Q. Zaidi MD -
Editing by EMS MEd Editor James Li, MD (@JamesLi_17) -
As discussed in “Should waveform capnography be in the EMT scope of practice?,” under the National...
MCHD Paramedic Podcast - EMS1.com Columnists - Assessing for the 5 things that can kill people emergently when they suffer major trauma - We often start with a diagnosis and teach from there – we’ve attempted to flip this script with our initial serial killer series, which included chest pain, shortness of breath and altered mental...
Rom Duckworth, BS, LP - EMS1.com Columnists - Through the EPIC treatment, EMS providers are taught to focus on the three H-bombs to prevent further damage to head injuries - Traumatic head injuries account for 2.5 million emergency department visits annually in the United States. More than 10 percent of these head injuries are...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Understand the role of pulse oximetry and waveform capnography to assess and treat patients who are hyperventilating -
Hyperventilation syndrome is a challenging and often misunderstood condition that is frequently encountered in EMS. When triggered by anxiety, hyperventilation causes patients to...
Michael Morse - EMS1.com Columnists - Anxiety and emotion can spiral into respiratory compromise that is self-reinforcing, frightening and an EMS-treatable emergency - Some patient encounters are keepers; other experiences need to be forgotten. -
Overcoming past calls is one of those skills that nobody teaches you in EMT school....
NAEMSP - EMS1.com Columnists - Another tool in the diagnostician’s briefcase - By Emily Fitzgerald, MD -
Your ALS crew is dispatched to a local nursing home for the 74-year-old female with shortness of breath, priority 2. You arrive on scene to find an elderly woman in respiratory distress. She is tripoding in bed, has marked...
The Medic Mindset Podcast - EMS1.com Columnists - Dr. Joelle Donofrio-Odmann discusses diseases of the upper and lower airways - After seeing Dr. Joelle Donofrio-Odmann’s talk in Prodigy EMS’ free Refresh program, I knew Medic Mindset listeners needed to hear from her. She is an associate professor of pediatrics and emergency...
John Sammons - EMS1.com Columnists - An initial visual assessment can identify threats to you and your patient before you narrow down a differential diagnosis - As we know, the pediatric assessment triangle is often used, rightfully so, as a tool to quickly identify sick kids who may require rapid, lifesaving intervention. While...