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Again With the Airway Burns?
Here’s how burns, acute respiratory distress syndrome, carbon monoxide, and cyanide poisoning can cause life-threatening hypoxia in patients.
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Use of Positive End Expiratory Pressure should be considered for any patient who requires mechanical ventilation, including those in cardiac arrest.
Dr. Marvin A. Wayne on why we do not use the measurement of end-tidal carbon dioxide to its full potential.
This article will discuss the prehospital management of COVID-19 respiratory symptoms.
Typically, patients with emphysema have good lung compliance but exhibit poor lung elastance.
Given the overwhelming evidence of improved outcomes, prehospital CPAP belongs in every EMS toolbox.
This paper provides an overview of pulmonary hypertension in the prehospital setting, including pathophysiology and identification.
Why the early application of high-flow nasal cannula in the appropriate patient population is an ideal way to meet the patient's inspiratory flow demand.
Acute respiratory distress is a serious emergency. Good patient outcomes require a skilled assessment of the airway, breathing and oxygenation.
This column will explain how you can use end tidal CO2 measurements to titrate and evaluate the effectiveness of CPAP.
Years ago, I authored an article in the Wisconsin EMS Association Journal titled “CPAP for Everyone.” At that time, “everyone” meant “everyone with respiratory distress.”
Knowing how much oxygen is in the tank could be a matter of life and death.
As a kid growing up in Fort Worth, Texas I had little interest in ambulances or medicine. I do remember one thing about the ambulances in the late 1960s in that they always had signs on the side that stated “oxygen equipped" in big letters.
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