Todd Bowman, BA, NRP, CCP - EMS1.com Columnists - Maryland physician describes the current pediatric bed crisis as “far worse than the worst days of the adult critical care bed crunch during COVID” - Viruses that are common in the pediatric population have surged in the United States earlier than physicians expected, with news of...
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...
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...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Tension pneumothorax is a life threatening condition that can occur with chest trauma and is more likely to happen with trauma involving an opening in the chest wall - Tension pneumothorax is a critical condition that can occur with chest trauma when air is trapped in the pleural cavity leading...
Arthur Hsieh, MA, NRP - EMS1.com Columnists - CPAP for emergency management of congestive heart failure and other respiratory emergencies has become the standard of care - The use of continuous positive airway pressure, commonly called CPAP, for the emergency management of congestive heart failure is rapidly becoming the new standard of...
EMS1 Contributor - Understanding the pathophysiology of difficulty breathing and different methods of delivering airway pressure - By Steven C. LeCroy, MA, CRT, EMTP -
In the late 1970s, legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey started each show with, "You know what the news is, in a minute you're going to hear the rest of the story.”...
EMS1.com Columnists - Tension pneumothorax is a life threatening condition that can occur with chest trauma and is more likely to happen with trauma involving an opening in the chest wall - Tension pneumothorax is a life-threatening condition that can occur with chest trauma when air is trapped in the pleural cavity leading to a...
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...
Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS - 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”...
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...