Basic Airway Management Turned Sideways
While EMS education includes the recovery position, placing patients on their side for ambulance transport should be a common practice for certain patients.
While EMS education includes the recovery position, placing patients on their side for ambulance transport should be a common practice for certain patients.
Learn about how serious complications can occur from improper pressure when sealing an airway cuff in the trachea.
COVID-19 has called attention to the dangers of ventilator circuit disconnects.
Use of Positive End Expiratory Pressure should be considered for any patient who requires mechanical ventilation, including those in cardiac arrest.
The COVID-19 pandemic raises the need from EMS to transfer patients from heavily affected regions to hospitals that have the capability to provide more advanced treatment – particularly for those ventilated and in need of intensive care. In addition, global demand in procuring ventilators, and lack of readily supply raises the need for self-sufficiency in acquiring or creating new ventilator prototypes.
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