Posts tagged with "Education"
Hyperoxia: Too much of a good thing
Limmer Education - EMS1.com Columnists - Three significant consequences of routine, excessive oxygen administration - By Chris Ebright - Oxygen. We love it, and it keeps us alive. The atmosphere contains 21% oxygen, and we exhale, on average, 16%. Thus, with the billions and billions of cells within our body, they operate using only 5%...
How to improve sepsis care with better EMS education
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...
How to treat sudden cardiac arrest, opioid overdose
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...
A delicate balance: Understanding acid-base issues in EMS patients
Arthur Hsieh, MA, NRP - EMS1.com Columnists - A basic understanding of how acid-base imbalances can affect the patient's presentation can help make sense of conflicting symptoms - The human body has tremendous capacity to maintain internal balance, or homeostasis, in serious, prolonged situations. However, there are several situations in...
EMS use of CPAP for respiratory emergencies
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...
COPD exacerbation: 5 things EMS providers need to know
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Understand how monitoring tools can be used to guide treatment for COPD exacerbations - This article was originally posted Jan. 27, 2017. It has been updated with new information. - Approximately 16 million Americans have been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and millions more...
Hyperoxia: Too much of a good thing
Limmer Education - EMS1.com Columnists - Three significant consequences of routine, excessive oxygen administration - By Chris Ebright - Oxygen. We love it, and it keeps us alive. The atmosphere contains 21% oxygen, and we exhale, on average, 16%. Thus, with the billions and billions of cells within our body, they operate using only 5%...
Drowning: The danger of dihydrogen oxide
Limmer Education - EMS1.com Columnists - Scenario: EMS work through resuscitation and management strategies when they respond to a call for pediatric drowning and find the child in cardiac arrest - By Chris Ebright - EMS is called to a residence to assist in the search for a missing child. At the scene, EMTs are informed that numerous...
