How to recommend new EMS equipment for your agency
Greg Friese, MS, NRP - EMS1 Staff Originals - Everyone likes new equipment. But before you run to your boss to make your case, ask yourself these questions. - If you are like me, you walk out of a trade show with an arm full of brochures, a bag full of snacks and candy, and a mental list of new equipment to demand that your service...
Training Day: How EMTs should be using capnography
Tim Nowak - EMS1.com Columnists - Application of an EtCO2 sampling device and waveform monitoring, especially during bag-valve mask ventilation, is well within the capability of EMTs - Should EMTs be trained and required to utilize capnography within their scope of practice and clinical care? - Yes. - That was a short article! - If...
How to buy capnography equipment (eBook)
Buyers Guide - Download this EMS1 capnography equipment buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation - By far, one of the greatest integrations into the clinical repertoire for both EMT and paramedic providers over the past decade has been capnography. - If your patient has breathing...
Training Day: CPAP early, CPAP often
Tim Nowak - EMS1 Sponsored - CPAP should be used as a noninvasive positive pressure ventilation tool early on in a treatment regimen for respiratory distress - This article was originally posted here on Bound Tree University. - Asthma exacerbation – CPAP! - Wheezing without a “shark fin” capnograph – CPAP! - Wheezing with a...
5 tips for airway management in the bariatric patient
Kelly Grayson - EMS1.com Columnists - Pre-oxygenate, evaluate for LEMONS and position a patient of any size correctly to help secure an airway - The 911 call was for cardiac arrest, and I was in the enviable position of second-in medic; do all the procedures and none of the paperwork. I’ll admit I was pretty cocky as I arrived, ready...
Back to the advanced
Tim Nowak - EMS1.com Columnists - We’ve all heard about getting ‘back to the basic,’ but sometimes paramedics need to make sure they get back to the advanced, as well - Not everything can be solved with the basic ABCs of patient assessment and management, at least, not without the right tools to facilitate it. - Yes, paramedics...
ABCs: Back to the advanced
Tim Nowak - EMS1.com Columnists - We’ve all heard about getting ‘back to the basic,’ but sometimes paramedics need to make sure they get back to the advanced, as well - Not everything can be solved with the basic ABCs of patient assessment and management, at least, not without the right tools to facilitate it. - Yes, paramedics...
Opioid overdose: Fact vs. fiction
Limmer Education - EMS1.com Columnists - A case study in opioid overdose complications, management strategies and provider safety - By Chris Ebright - Opioids, prescription and illicit, are currently the leading cause of drug overdose deaths. The current data from the Centers for Disease Control reports that 70,237 drug overdose deaths...
