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Undifferentiated Respiratory Distress: A Medic’s Guide (Part 1)
Learn to interpret patient descriptions, understand underlying physiology and differentiate causes beyond simple “shortness of breath.”
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You are dispatched to a call for a 36-year-old female complaining of chest pain with shortness of breath.
You arrive at a home where a distressed father found his son hanging.
Asthma is a very common condition that causes breathing problems like coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath that challenges medical providers.
You and your partner are toned out for a seven-year-old female with shortness of breath.
When was the last time you treated a child in respiratory distress? What do you remember? Did you feel comfortable managing the case?
As your partner turns out of the hospital parking lot, your ambulance is dispatched to a local distribution warehouse for a worker complaining of shortness of breath.
Hospitals and EMS services have been hit hard due to supply chain issues and the widespread use of liquid albuterol.
You just finished an uninterrupted meal when you’re dispatched to a house in town for an 88-year-old male with trouble breathing.
Understanding acronyms and how they describe modes is essential when managing a mechanically ventilated patient.
Jason Haag provides a summary of prehospital manual ventilation recommendations from the NAEMSP and published in Prehospital Emergency Care.
While ventilators and BiPAP machines are physical tools, empathy and effective communication are intuitive and emotional tools which help sustain life.
Drowning has become a major public health problem. It is the third-leading cause of unintentional injury and death worldwide.
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