Rom Duckworth, BS, LP - EMS1.com Columnists - EMS educators can improve sepsis patient outcomes by ensuring EMTs and paramedics have knowledge appropriate and impactful training - Sepsis education, just like education for trauma, STEMI and stroke can improve EMS provider recognition, assessment, alerts and treatment to improve sepsis...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1 Sponsored - EMS providers need to understand the importance of airway management and monitoring for respiratory compromise along with naloxone administration for opioid overdoses - Timely recognition, airway management, administration of naloxone (Narcan), and continuous assessment of oxygenation and ventilation can...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1 Sponsored - Recognize the signs and symptoms of pneumonia and understand how capnography can be used to guide treatment for pneumonia and sepsis. - Pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death in industrialized countries . According to the American Lung Association, pneumonia causes more than 1 million...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - An unconscious patient, with absent or ineffective breathing, may be in sudden cardiac arrest or have overdosed on an opioid; here's how to assess and treat the patient - Death from sudden cardiac arrest and opioid overdose are both major public health problems in the United States. Out-of-hospital...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Understand how monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide helps assess and treat a patient in respiratory distress - Respiratory distress is one of the most common patient complaints. Waveform capnography is a valuable tool to determine the cause and severity of respiratory distress, to guide treatment...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1 Sponsored - Proper assessment, treatment, and transport of patients with traumatic brain injury saves lives, here’s how - According to CDC data, approximately 2.87 million cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) occur annually in the U.S., including over 837,000 pediatric cases. An estimated 13.5 million...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Asthma, a leading cause of respiratory compromise, can be assessed with capnography and effectively treated with BLS and ALS medications - Asthma is a chronic disease that affects 24.7 million people in the United States and causes 3,500 deaths each year. Prompt recognition and treatment of asthma, a...
MCHD - EMS1.com Columnists - We are limited on the amount of objective information available during prehospital care; don’t ignore this vital piece of the puzzle - The capnography tracing is an excellent tool that gives us insight into cellular metabolism, perfusion and ventilation. This can yield vital information in multiple critical...
Nathan Stanaway - EMS1.com Columnists - From the 1500s until today, techniques for placing a tube into the trachea have continuously evolved and will continue to improve in the future - If you’ve ever wondered why the little hole near the tip of an endotracheal tube is called the Murphy Eye, or who Macintosh was, or even who performed...
Kenny Navarro - EMS1.com Columnists - AHA CPR Guidelines 2020 continue to emphasize early recognition of cardiac arrest and prompt CPR beginning with chest compressions provides the best chances for survival - Recently, the American Heart Association released the new 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary...