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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% of the oxygen we…

Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS EMS1.com Columnists We’ve all heard about getting ‘back to the basic,’ but sometimes paramedics need to make sure they get back to the advanced, as well Not everything can be solved with the basic ABCs of patient assessment and management, at least, not without the right…

EMS1 Sponsored Following these capnography hacks will help set your care apart Sponsored by Medtronic By Tim Nowak for EMS1 BrandFocus Capnography has become a staple EMS assessment tool not just for providers who want to investigate what’s causing the patient’s symptoms, but also for those who want to resuscitate patients experiencing cardiac arrest. Simply…

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.” That’s what this…

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 maneuvers in the ambulance on scene.…

Limmer Education EMS1.com Columnists A case study in opioid overdose complications, management strategies and provider safety By Chris Ebright Opioids, prescription and illicit, are currently the leading cause of drug overdose deaths. The current data from the Centers for Disease Control reports that 70,237 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2017. Opioids…

EMS1.com Columnists EMTs 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 compression and correct…

EMS1.com Columnists Asthma, a leading cause of respiratory compromise, can be assessed with capnography and effectively treated with BLS and ALS medications By Bob Sullivan Asthma is a chronic disease that affects 24 million people in the United States and causes 5,000 to 6,000 deaths each year [1,2]. Prompt recognition and treatment of asthma, a…

Rom Duckworth EMS1.com Columnists Understand the origins of sepsis criteria and what the new sepsis definitions mean for EMS assessment and treatment of septic patients It’s more common than a heart attack. It takes more lives than any cancer. It causes the deaths of over 4,400 children per year in the United States. Yet if…