Airway management
This directory provides essential articles on Airway Management, a critical skill for EMS professionals. Topics include techniques for securing airways, the use of advanced airway devices, and strategies for managing difficult airways in emergencies. Mastery of Airway Management is vital for ensuring patient survival during respiratory emergencies. For related information, explore our resources on Advanced Life Support (ALS), which often involves advanced airway procedures. Use this directory to deepen your understanding and improve your airway management skills in the field.
Where capnography can guide treatment in complex medical scenarios
Steve Whitehead will tell you why your BVM technique needs to go in this episode
Are those historical skills a blessing or a curse?
Understanding the sequelae of traumatic asphyxia, strangulation and positional asphyxia
George Tech Graduate Student Kentez Craig has helped in the production of thousands of face shields and 200 protective intubation boxes
EMS providers know positional asphyxiation can kill, and have a professional and moral obligation to object to it
What we can learn about EMS responsibility to intervene from the death of George Floyd
Wren Nealy Jr., Cypress Creek EMS chief operating officer, relates how BWCs have contributed to personnel safety, QA/QI
New South Wales Ambulance has reportedly instructed its crews to avoid procedures that put them at risk of COVID-19 exposure
Triage burn victims for inhalation injury and fluid administration by putting these four pieces of the puzzle together
Scenario: EMS work through resuscitation and management strategies when they respond to a call for pediatric drowning and find the child in cardiac arrest
Technological advances and training are moving hemorrhage control techniques from the battlefield to prehospital and emergency medicine
Firefighter-paramedics rapidly implement new ideas to curb infection
Test your knowledge of COVID-19 best practices and up-to-date information
A Texas fire department is trialing the new method of giving oxygen through a patient鈥檚 nose
Examining the airway management studies findings on 72-hour survival, ROSC, survival to discharge and favorable neurologic status at discharge
The boxes are designed to go over a patient鈥檚 head during airway management procedures and trap aerosol contaminants
University of Washington EM physicians update on COVID-19 atypical presentation, airway management and N95 cleaning
Robert Murray Jr, NRP, MS, shares the components of a waveform and common capnography pitfalls
A paper published in the Journal of Rural Health calls for changes to paramedic scopes of practice for airway and ventilator management in response to COVID-19
The Montgomery County Hospital District EMS shares its specific airway algorithm and a COVID-19 airway management update
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor Gregory Fischer hopes to create an open-source design that will help address COVID-19-driven ventilator shortages
Fairfax County (Virginia) Fire and Rescue releases video detailing steps for proper PPE use
Eleven fire departments in Palm Beach County have agreed to lend their combined 70 ventilators to hospitals if the need arises
EMS grand rounds presentation focuses on proper PPE, endotracheal intubation and infection control
Preventing aerosol-generating procedures while treating prehospital COVID-19 patients
The CDC has posted NIOSH guidelines for extended use and limited reuse of N95 masks
Montgomery County Hospital District EMS is using a low-cost approach to administer albuterol via metered-dose inhaler, reducing viral spread without compromising patient care
A review of the most important information for fire and EMS leaders as they develop plans to treat patients and protect personnel
Controlling the airway is the single most important prehospital intervention
The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study 鈥� a must read for EMS, investigates cardiac arrest, major trauma and respiratory distress
