5 things to know about capnography in cardiac arrest
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...
3 scenarios demonstrating the benefits of capnography for EMTs
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...
Serial killers: Trauma
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...
EPIC: An EMS-centered approach to head injuries
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...
4 things EMS providers need to know about hyperventilation syndrome
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...
Remain calm: Assessing and treating panic attacks
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....
Thoracic ultrasound in respiratory distress
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...
Thinking: Pediatric respiratory distress
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...
