by Steven C. LeCroy, MA, CRTT, EMT-P | Sep 26, 2019 | Articles, Featured Articles
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.
by Troy Valente | Sep 25, 2019 | EMSAirway Premium
The capnography waveform, not the ETCO2 number, is used for airway assessment. If the patient ventilates, or you ventilate the patient, and a boxy waveform appears, then that breath is patent and went in and out of the lungs unobstructed. When your patient...
by Troy Valente | Sep 25, 2019 | EMSAirway Premium
Capnography is the only tool in the universe that is non-invasive, in real time and simultaneously assesses a patient’s airway patency, quality of breathing, perfusion/shock status and metabolic state. How does it work? What does the waveform tell you vs....
by Troy Valente | Sep 25, 2019 | EMSAirway Premium
While quantitative waveform capnography and pulse oximetry are both infrared technologies and may seem like similar measurements, they assess very different things. Capnography is a direct measurement of ventilation and, indirectly, circulatory and metabolic...
by globalmedic | Sep 25, 2019 | Author Profile
Troy Valente (pronounced “va-len-tee”) was born and raised in California and has lived in Northern Colorado since 2001 with his wife (a NICU nurse) and 2 kids. Troy started his EMS career in 2002 becoming a paramedic in 2006. Prior to...
by Jake Weinstein, DNP, ACNP, Paramedic and Judson Smith, MHA, Paramedic | Sep 20, 2019 | Articles, Featured Articles
Deployment of CPAP and BIPAP in EMS has evolved over the last decade and is arguably first line intervention for acute respiratory distress for multiple adult populations. Despite these advances, we have left children behind for no reason. Pediatric patients are well...
by Jeff Frankel | Sep 4, 2019 | News
CARLISLE, Pa. – New guidelines are now in effect that requires EMS crews to stay on scene longer for patients who are critically ill.
by Gina Farquharson, RRT-NPS, MBA, MS, CPPS and Gregory K. Spratt, BS, RRT, CPFT | Aug 27, 2019 | Articles, Featured Articles
Capnography was first proposed for use in the operating room in 1978 and has since become the standard of care for monitoring ventilation.1 Capnography is rapidly growing in use for intubated and non-intubated applications across hospital environments including the...
by alicebutters | Aug 14, 2019 | Articles, Featured Articles, Videos
In this video, Mike McEvoy has a primer on basic waveform capnography, using a device to measure a patient’s exhaled carbon dioxide levels.
by alicebutters | Aug 7, 2019 | News
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of naloxone...
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