Airway Management: The 5 W’s Lead to How
Here’s how the five W’s—who, what, when, where, and why—can guide airway management decisions in critical emergencies.
Aggressive Airway Management: Task, Tactics and Techniques
Lt. Stephen Wilcox examines the task, tactics and techniques for basic and advanced airway management.
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.”
Prioritizing Resources: PACE Yourself
Chaos in airway management may cause more harm than good. The PACE Plan can help.
Sheets vs. the Streets
“The streets are nothing like the sheets, just memorize the sheets to get through the test.”
Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Mechanical Ventilator Strategies
Treating patients on mechanical ventilators requires the ability to apply different strategies for different types of patients.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 12 – Less Isn’t Always More
This is how end-tidal capnography can help us identify underlying problem with patients.
Who’s Watching the ‘Bs’ in the ABCs?
The ability to perform the ABCs continues to be a standard of practice.
Challenging the Way We Have Always Done It: The PUMA Criteria of Endotracheal Tube Confirmation
There are better ways to confirm that an endotracheal tube is in the right place.
NJ Firefighters Save Little Girl from Choking
Paterson firefighters saved the life of an infant who was brought into fire headquarters choking, fire department officials said.
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