EMS1 Sponsored Use this information to engage your field providers about how capnography improves patient care and outcomes By Chris Cebollero As EMS leaders, we put a team around us to handle areas of specialization from operations to communications and clinical care to education. Trusting that team to accomplish the mission is an important component…

Marianne Meyers, BS EMS1.com Columnists Robert Murray Jr, NRP, MS, shares the components of a waveform and common capnography pitfalls Robert Murray Jr., NRP, MS, deputy director of operations for Sussex County EMS in Delaware, and Medtronic consultant, presented a webinar titled “Capnography in EMS: Tube verification is only the beginning” as part of the…

EMS1 Sponsored Use these documentation and handoff tips to communicate important patient information to ED and ICU staff unfamiliar with capnography By Kelly Grayson Waveform capnography is an example of EMS as an early adopter of emerging technology. Often, in the hospital, recognition of the value of capnography has not spread beyond the confines of…

Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS EMS1 Sponsored Amid protocol changes and airway/respiratory procedure modifications due to COVID-19, it’s comforting to know that when it comes to EtCO2 monitoring, you don’t need to change anything Sponsored by Medtronic By Tim Nowak for EMS1 BrandFocus COVID-19 has changed some of what we do…

Inside EMS EMS1.com Columnists In this episode, our co-hosts debate the recent attack of an FDNY paramedic by her partner on duty, and the underlying issues behind EMS assaults 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 Chris…

Tim Nowak, AAS, BS, NRP, CCEMTP, SPO, MPO, CADS EMS1.com Columnists It’s not all about breathing rates: hypercapnia risk factors and complications Your patient complains of dyspnea. His end-tidal carbon dioxide reading is 54 mmHg and respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute. That’s right, he’s hypercapnic with an elevated respiratory rate (yes, 20 is…

EMS1.com Staff News The parents of Jake Anderson, 19, allege first responders declared their son dead before properly evaluating and transporting him to a hospital By EMS1 Staff MINNEAPOLIS — The parents of a college student who froze to death in 2013 filed a federal lawsuit last week, claiming first responders were negligent in providing…

Bob Sullivan EMS1.com Columnists An unconscious patient, with absent or ineffective breathing, may be in sudden cardiac arrest or have overdosed on an opioid; here’s how to assess and treat the patient Death from sudden cardiac arrest and opioid overdose are both major public health problems in the United States. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, where there…

EMS1.com Columnists Use ETCO2 monitoring to avoid inappropriate hyperventilation, recognize abnormal respiratory patterns and guide care By Kelly Grayson Traumatic brain injury, hemorrhagic stroke and spinal cord injury are three pathologies that can result in devastating neurological injury. While we can do little in the prehospital environment to treat them, careful assessment of the patient, including…

EMS1 Sponsored We 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 also a critical tool to confirm…