Posts tagged with "EMS Education"
5 simulation scenarios to teach capnography to BLS providers
EMS1.com ColumnistsEMTs can easily learn how to use capnography as a patient assessment and monitoring tool By Aaron Dix Capnography is an essential tool to assess and treat numerous conditions, ranging from respiratory distress to sepsis. Track expired or exhaled carbon dioxide, known as ETCO2, to monitor the effectiveness of chest...
Cardiac arrest in accidental hypothermia: Work the patient or don't start resuscitation?
Dr. David K. TanEMS1.com ColumnistsFollow the mantra "a patient isn't dead unless they are warm and dead" based on assessment findings and knowing resuscitation contraindicationsA wrongful death lawsuit for failing to initiate resuscitative efforts was filed against EMS providers by the family of Jake Anderson in late 2016. According to...
How capnography can improve cardiac arrest care
EMS1.com ColumnistsCapnography guided care gives EMS providers the information they need to improve survival for patients who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest By Shawna Renga, NRP The application of waveform capnography in prehospital care has expanded far beyond its most ubiquitous use as the gold standard for endotracheal...
Reality Training: Unresponsive teen after intentional asphyxiation
EMS1.com ColumnistsHow will you care for a teenager who intentionally asphyxiated himself and is now unresponsive with agonal respirations? You are dispatched to a residence for an unresponsive 14-year-old male patient after choking. You arrive to find frantic parents leading you to the basement, where the patient is unresponsive on the...
Restraint and capnography: Lifesaving for patients and career-saving for medics
EMS1.com ColumnistsUnderstand how capnography identifies respiratory and cardiovascular compromise in restrained patients By Bob Sullivan Caring for aggressive and violent patients can be one of the most challenging situations EMS providers face. Patients who are intoxicated, have overdosed, are in drug withdrawal or have psychiatric...
EMS use of CPAP for respiratory emergencies
Arthur HsiehEMS1.com ColumnistsCPAP for emergency management of congestive heart failure and other respiratory emergencies has become the standard of careThe use of continuous positive airway pressure, commonly called CPAP, for the emergency management of congestive heart failure is rapidly becoming the new standard of care, replacing...
4 things paramedics need to know about capnography and heart failure
EMS1.com ColumnistsRecognize the signs and symptoms of heart failure and understand how capnography can be used to guide treatment By Bob Sullivan Patients with heart failure pose several challenges for paramedics to assess and treat. Signs and symptoms of heart failure can mimic other respiratory conditions and there is both a...
EMS1 Poll Results: How do you use capnography?
EMS1 SponsoredWe asked EMS1 readers to share their knowledge and use of capnography during patient care By EMS1 Staff Capnography is increasingly available to EMTs and paramedics for patient assessment and monitoring. Capnography is indicated for patients with traumatic injury, cardiac arrest, sepsis and respiratory compromise. It is...
