New York’s Southern Tier Emergency Medical System (STEMS) has released two excellent training videos on oral endotracheal intubation for adults and infants.
STEMS is a program of Southern Tier Health Care System, Inc., and also an EMS program agency for the Southwestern Regional EMS Council (SWREMS).
Watch their two training videos below.
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These videos demonstrate how prehospital EMS airway skill stations are routinely taught and evaluated. While the techniques demonstrated work well on airway task trainers and ‘check the boxes’ of the evaluation sheets, these procedures may be more successfully applied to patient encounters with a more deliberate approach and some additional detail. While PPE is inconvenient during training and video production, “training like you fight” helps assure PPE is worn during actual patient care encounters. Some other details to consider might be having suction at the bedside, an alternate airway (SGA) and/or ETT sizes available, laryngoscope blade sizing (i.e. using a… Read more »