Should waveform capnography be in the EMT scope of practice?
NAEMSP - EMS1.com Columnists - Exploring the limitations of lung auscultation and pulse oximetry - By Adrien Quant, LP; Hashim Q. Zaidi, MD - “Depending on a patient’s needs and/or system resources, EMTs are sometimes the highest level of care a patient will receive during an ambulance transport." — National EMS Scope of...
Video: Pediatric airway burns
Reel Emergency Vodcast - EMS1.com Columnists - Check out this incredible footage from video laryngoscopes that captured burned and swollen airways during intubation - In this episode of the Reel Emergency Vodcast, EMS clinicians care for four patients who suffered burns in a house fire. They swiftly and expertly perform invasive airway...
Serial killers: Shortness of breath
MCHD Paramedic Podcast - EMS1.com Columnists - In this episode, learn the 5 emergent conditions that will kill patients experiencing shortness of breath, and how to use ETCO2 to develop a differential - How to get to the final diagnosis is often a process that all levels of emergency providers struggle with. To go from undifferentiated...
Training Day: Breaking down signs of sepsis
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...
10 things to train on this summer
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...
Article Bites: Significance of attempts in airway management
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 case of the quarter: Awful asthma
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...
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...
