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COPD Upgrade: What I Wish They Taught Me in Paramedic School
COPD patients don’t fit tidy categories. Learn how inflammation, air trapping, and work of breathing actually guide care.
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The art of selling CPAP to a patient can make or break chances for success.
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.
Deployment of CPAP and BIPAP in EMS has evolved over the last decade and is arguably first line ...
Capnography was first proposed for use in the operating room in 1978 and has since become the standard of care for ...
In this video, Mike McEvoy has a primer on basic waveform capnography, using a device to measure a patient's exhaled carbon dioxide levels.
Assessing and Treating Deteriorating Respiratory Failure Patients
Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation such ...
Mike McEvoy examines some of the physiological reasons that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) works for a variety of conditions.
In this video, Mike McEvoy discusses the use of disposable CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) masks, a method of assisting a patient's respiration without intubation.
Barriers to CPAP adoption by BLS providers are finally falling, and BLS use of CPAP is now supported by the 2019 National EMS Scope of Practice Model.
Although originally intended to treat prehospital patients in pulmonary edema resulting from heart failure, CPAP is now indicated for virtually any condition resulting in significant dyspnea accompanied by signs and symptoms of increased work of breathing.
Learn the history of the oropharyngeal airway (OPA) and review how to size the OPA for the patient, as well as the correct way to insert this basic, and effective, airway adjunct.
Shortness of breath, or dyspnea, results from air hunger, a sensation that you’re not getting enough air. Here’s how to spot a patient with increased work of breathing, an important assessment for an EMS provider evaluating a patient with dyspnea.
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