by clairekeighley | Dec 10, 2019 | News
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in partnership with the NHTSA Office of EMS, has released draft questions that will guide a subsequent review related to prehospital airway management.
by Mike McEvoy, PhD, NRP, RN, CCRN | Oct 9, 2019 | Articles, Featured Articles
The art of selling CPAP to a patient can make or break chances for success.
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 Gina Farquharson, RRT-NPS, MBA, MS, CPPS, Gregory K. Spratt, BS, RRT, CPFT 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 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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