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Monitoring the Effectiveness of CPAP
Once you’ve decided to use CPAP, and convinced your patient to cooperate, you’ll need to monitor the effectiveness of CPAP. It may be necessary to adjust your CPAP pressure, resolve significant mask leaks, reassure your patient or progress to assisted ventilation when CPAP fails.
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Public Input Needed in Systematic Review of Prehospital Airway Management
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in partnership with the NHTSA Office of EMS, has released draft questions that will guide a subsequent review related to prehospital airway management.
read moreNew Protocol in Treating Sick Patients in Pennsylvania
CARLISLE, Pa. – New guidelines are now in effect that requires EMS crews to stay on scene longer for patients who are critically ill.
read moreReport: Boom in Overdose-Reversing Drug Tied to Fewer Drug Deaths
This July 3, 2018 file photo shows a Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, health officials reported that prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time [...]
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Monitoring the Effectiveness of CPAP
Once you’ve decided to use CPAP, and convinced your patient to cooperate, you’ll need to monitor the effectiveness of CPAP. It may be necessary to adjust your CPAP pressure, resolve significant mask leaks, reassure your patient or progress to assisted ventilation when CPAP fails.
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Successfully Selling CPAP
The art of selling CPAP to a patient can make or break chances for success.
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Vintage Manual Ventilation: The 1,500 mL BVM (Bag-Valve-Mask Manual Resuscitator)
Although the device still works as designed, is still in service and being used by well-intentioned clinicians, it should be on the shelf with the Medical Anti-Shock Trousers, LifePak 5 and Biophone. While change is sometimes slow, and healthcare providers can be described as conservatively fixed, lung protective ventilation is the current standard of care.
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EMS Airway Videos
Rescue Task Force: Airway Management
Mike Brown and Mark Litwinko discuss dealing with a patient who has a chest wound during a mass-casualty incident.
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Tips for Using a Small-Volume Nebulizer
Mike McEvoy shares some tips on delivering medicine to a patient for using a small-volume nebulizer.
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Video: Waveform Capnography
In this video, Mike McEvoy has a primer on basic waveform capnography, using a device to measure a patient’s exhaled carbon dioxide levels.
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