Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS - EMS1.com Columnists - Design your training scenario to include increasingly complicated sepsis symptoms to test EMS providers’ differential diagnosis skills - This article was originally posted here on Bound Tree University. -
Sepsis, or septic shock, can manifest through a number of...
Kerri Hatt - EMS1 Staff Originals - Conquer stressful calls, identify treatment challenges and pitfalls, and use technology to its best potential to save lives this summer and beyond - While parents are doing their best to fit learning activities into their students’ days, between trips to the beach, camps and popsicles to avoid the...
NAEMSP - EMS1.com Columnists - The negative association between number of airway attempts and neuro-intact survival following OHCA - Article Summary by Casey Patrick, @cpatrick_89 -
Article reviewed: Murphy, D. L., Bulger, N. E., Harrington, B. M., Skerchak, J. A., Counts, C. R., Latimer, A. J., ... & Sayre, M. R. (2021). Fewer...
MCHD Paramedic Podcast - EMS1.com Columnists - Preparing for the most stressful call you can receive: pediatric cardiorespiratory arrest - In this episode of the MCHD Paramedic Podcast, the Montgomery County Hospital District EMS service Medical Directors, Dr. Robert Dickson and Dr. Casey Patrick, are joined by MCHD medic Lily...
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...
Reel Emergency Vodcast - EMS1.com Columnists - Establishing a definitive airway and administering blood products - Listen as EMS clinicians stabilize a very sick patient who was struck by a car while riding his bicycle. Pay close attention to their management of his injuries, their impressive teamwork and how quickly they establish a...
Limmer Education - EMS1.com Columnists - How young patients’ unique anatomy and physiology impact trauma assessment and management - By Chris Ebright -
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children, more than all other causes combined . These injuries result in over nine million emergency department...
Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS - EMS1.com Columnists - It’s not all about breathing rates: hypercapnia risk factors and complications - Your patient complains of dyspnea. His end-tidal carbon dioxide reading is 54 mmHg and respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute. -
That’s right, he’s hypercapnic with an...
EMS1 Contributor - Without real-time feedback to confirm ventilation rate and volume, a piece of the map is missing - By Justin Hurzeler, NRP, TM -
In 2020, a nightmare I didn’t even know I’d had came true at around 0500 on a weekday morning, two hours before the end of a 24-hour shift. I had only been asleep for an hour when the...