Rom Duckworth, BS, LP - EMS1.com Columnists - Through the EPIC treatment, EMS providers are taught to focus on the three H-bombs to prevent further damage to head injuries - Traumatic head injuries account for 2.5 million emergency department visits annually in the United States. More than 10 percent of these head injuries are...
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...
EMS1.com Staff News - The position statements summarize recommendations for training, quality management, pediatric considerations and more - By Kerri Hatt -
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The NAEMSP Standards and Clinical Practice Committee has published “The National Association of EMS Physicians Compendium of Airway Management Position...
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.”...
Bob Sullivan - EMS1.com Columnists - Understand the importance of monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide and the valuable information it provides for patient assessment and treatment -
This article, originally published April 27, 2015, has been updated with new information. -
Waveform capnography is used at all EMS provider levels to...