Rob Lawrence - EMS1.com Columnists - Takeaways from the 90-plus posters on display at this year’s National Association of EMS Physicians annual meeting - TAMPA, Fla. — This year’s NAEMSP annual meeting included a bumper crop of poster presentations. In this Quick Take, I will review my top five takeaways from the posters presented...
Jonathan Lee - EMS1.com Columnists - Learn what the guidelines say about titration, selecting a sedation agent and monitoring sedation - A number of agencies have published sedation best practice guidelines . With the exception of the NAEMSP statement on drug-assisted airway management, none of these are prehospital specific . -...
Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS - EMS1.com Columnists - Always keep the patient’s context in mind in any situation when you’re utilizing waveform capnography - Cold weather is upon us, and so is the risk of hypothermia in our environmentally exposed patients. When body temperatures drop, so should our sole reliance on...
Inside EMS Podcast - EMS1.com Columnists - Our cohosts tackle a contentious topic – including waveform capnography into the EMT Scope of Practice; do you agree? - This episode of Inside EMS is brought to you by Lexipol, the experts in policy, training, wellness support and grants assistance for first responders and government leaders....
Daniel Schwester, MICP - EMS1.com Columnists - Communicating with law enforcement and following these clinical guidelines will help to keep patient safety first and foremost - The in-custody deaths of persons who had been administered ketamine for agitation have brought controversy and questions about the use of the drug in EMS....
Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS - EMS1.com Columnists - Going back to the basics ensures a smooth EtCO2 reading and creates a calming environment for both the patient and provider - Utilizing capnography technology should be standard practice in today’s ALS ambulance – if it’s not, we really need to talk! However,...
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...
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...
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...
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...