Bob Sullivan EMS1.com Columnists Tension pneumothorax is a life threatening condition that can occur with chest trauma and is more likely to happen with trauma involving an opening in the chest wall Tension pneumothorax is a critical condition that can occur with chest trauma when air is trapped in the pleural cavity leading to rapid deterioration…

Inside EMS EMS1.com Columnists In this episode, our co-hosts welcome Medtronic’s Holly Stewart, who explains the history of capnography and offers insight into its use for DKA and sepsis monitoring This episode of Inside EMS is sponsored by Medtronic. Learn how capnography monitoring from Medtronic can help by clicking here. In this episode of Inside EMS, co-hosts…

EMS1 Contributor Help student paramedics identify CHF, Curare cleft and ROSC in capnography waveforms, and develop a treatment plan By Jake Mellor A previous article provided five training scenarios to help BLS providers better understand common capnography waveforms and how this information can lead to more adequate treatment for a patient. Below are three more…

Rom Duckworth 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 hospitalized, from which nearly 53,000 die.…

EMS1 Sponsored A PCR can take 10 times longer than the call, but this webinar can help EMS agencies cut that time and provide complete call information Webinar sponsored by Forte Holdings iPCR Register to watch the video Yearly Medicare auditing in EMS is not a matter of if, but when. The most common way an agency…

Bob Sullivan EMS1 Sponsored Recognize the signs and symptoms of pneumonia and understand how capnography can be used to guide treatment for pneumonia and sepsis. Pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death in industrialized countries [1]. According to the American Lung Association, there were more than one million hospitalizations for pneumonia in 2010 [2].…

Daniel Sundahl EMS1.com Columnists Wheezes, retractions, tachypnea and altered mental status lead to a quick assessment of asthma This image was based on a call I did for a boy who was having an asthma attack. He was fine, but his father was distraught. His wife, the boys mother, had died a week prior from…

EMS1 Contributor Without real-time feedback to confirm ventilation rate and volume, a piece of the map is missing By Justin Hurzeler, NRP, TM In 2020, a nightmare I didn’t even know I’d had came true at around 0500 on a weekday morning, two hours before the end of a 24-hour shift. I had only been…

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 patient outcomes [1]. Rather than dwell on explanations of…

Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS EMS1.com Columnists We are beginning to see the initial correlations with COPD that vaping has on our patients’ overall health and respiratory disease exacerbation A quick online search of “vaping hazards” will direct you toward a number of articles and fact sheets addressing the growing hazards associated with this tobacco-less smoking trend. In…