Inside EMS EMS1.com Columnists Our co-hosts discuss airway management and its important role in EMS, including common misconceptions and the standard all providers should strive for In this episode of Inside EMS, co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss the topic of airway management. Airway management is one of the most valued and needed skills performed…

Using the stretcher as a tool in heads-up CPR Reminder: Our fifth and final episode of this series, “Reimagining Resuscitation: Behind the Scenes of Rialto’s Breakthrough” will be a live webinar including a Q&A session on Dec. 8, 2020. Send your questions for Kevin Joles and Joe Powell to [email protected] and register for the webinar here. According…

Preventing hypoxia with apneic oxygenation Reminder: Our fifth and final episode of this series, “Reimagining Resuscitation: Behind the Scenes of Rialto’s Breakthrough” will be a live webinar including a Q&A session on Dec. 8, 2020. Send your questions for Kevin Joles and Joe Powell to [email protected] and register for the webinar here.   The Rialto Fire Department, along…

The 4 acceptable pauses in CPR Reminder: Our fifth and final episode of this series, “Reimagining Resuscitation: Behind the Scenes of Rialto’s Breakthrough” will be a live webinar including a Q&A session on Dec. 8, 2020. Send your questions for Kevin Joles and Joe Powell to [email protected] and register for the webinar here.   By focusing on its mission, “bring…

Inside EMS EMS1.com Columnists Deprioritizing epinephrine in the order of interventions Medical intervention succeeds best when administered to or performed on the right patient at the right time, and the use of epinephrine in treating a victim of cardiac arrest is no different.  The first episode of this special video/podcast series, “Reimagining Resuscitation: Behind the Scenes…

Deprioritizing epinephrine in the order of interventions Reminder: Our fifth and final episode of this series, “Reimagining Resuscitation: Behind the Scenes of Rialto’s Breakthrough” will be a live webinar including a Q&A session on Dec. 8, 2020. Send your questions for Kevin Joles and Joe Powell to [email protected] and register for the webinar here.   Medical intervention succeeds best when…

Limmer Education EMS1.com Columnists Common respiration pathologies and those that impair ventilation By Chris Ebright You were taught from day one of taking vital signs to count respirations. However, I am here to say that your stellar EMT instructor let you down because that’s wrong. The same incorrect terminology is also written in numerous textbooks, on…

David Wright, MS, PA-C, NREMT-P EMS1.com Columnists A detailed patient history and physical examination inform this diagnosis of exclusion after a brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE) By ​David Wright, M.S., PA-C, NRP; and Kate Randolph, B.S. You and your partner are responding to a 911 call. Dispatch informs you that an alarmed new mother has…

Inside EMS EMS1.com Columnists Using the stretcher as a tool in heads-up CPR According to Joe Powell, MICP, EMSC, the magic in the coordinated set of advanced cardiac resuscitation techniques Rialto Fire Department implemented is its reproducibility. The first episode of this special video/podcast series, “Reimagining Resuscitation: Behind the Scenes of Rialto’s Breakthrough,” brought to you…

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 current information Waveform capnography can now be used at all provider levels to better assess patients in respiratory distress, cardiac arrest and…