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Bob Sullivan EMS1.com Columnists Understand how respiratory monitoring devices can be used to guide treatment during and after seizures Seizures are one of the most common conditions encountered by EMS providers and one where critical interventions can significantly affect patient outcomes [1]. Timely seizure management is a benchmark proposed by a group of metropolitan medical…

Arthur Hsieh EMS1.com Columnists Realistic training, dedication to management and monitoring, the ability to troubleshoot and competently use available tools are critical to all EMS providers Airway management: It’s not easy. Catastrophic clinical failures, such as the one described in this article about Drew Hughes, serve as somber reminders about how challenging airway management truly…

Bob Sullivan EMS1.com Columnists Understand the importance of realistic training on specific devices and using capnography to assess for effective ventilation through supraglottic airways Supraglottic airway devices have emerged as valuable tools for airway management, particularly in cardiac arrest. When compared to endotracheal intubation, in which some studies have found high rates of misplacement, skill…

EMS1 Sponsored Make every assessment question count using this strategy to quickly assess respiratory patients who are unable to speak in phrases or sentences By Bob Sullivan Patients in severe respiratory distress or respiratory compromise are often unable to speak more than one or two words at a time, and attempting to do so makes…

Mike McEvoy EMS1.com Columnists End-tidal carbon dioxide is an irrefutable indication for any type of airway adjunct A 56-year-old male collapsed at a restaurant and received several minutes of dispatcher-assisted CPR. A civilian responding to a mobile phone alerting system retrieved an AED from an adjacent business and administered one shock prior to arrival of…

Arthur Hsieh EMS1.com Columnists Here’s how EMS recognition and initiation of interventions can lower sepsis mortality There has been an increasing amount of attention placed on the rapid identification and treatment of patients experiencing sepsis. Recall that sepsis is a highly exaggerated response by the body’s immune system to an infection. As the reaction worsens,…

Learn how advanced cardiac resuscitation techniques lead to increased survival in OOH cardiac arrest This on-demand webinar was presented as a live Q&A with experts from Rialto Fire Department and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical. In this casual conversation, our moderator and guests had a lively discussion about how these agencies dramatically improved their patients’ chances for…

Kelly Grayson, NRP, CCP EMS1.com Columnists Pre-oxygenate, evaluate for LEMONS and position a patient of any size correctly to help secure an airway The 911 call was for cardiac arrest, and I was in the enviable position of second-in medic; do all the procedures and none of the paperwork. I’ll admit I was pretty cocky…

Catherine R. Counts EMS1.com Columnists A study of over 5,000 intubations demonstrates the value of continuous quality improvement Researchers with Air Methods Corporation recently published the results of their novel airway management curriculum in Prehospital Emergency Care. The curriculum, known as the Helicopter Advanced Resuscitation Training (HeART), focuses on combining critical thinking on the part…