Integrating military lessons learned of DCR into civilian EMS promises great strides in survival for the most critically injured. A growing amount of ground EMS systems across the country are now fielding whole blood as part of DCR at the point of injury and treating...
What if we could secure an airway in an unconscious patient without paralytics? Patients can’t clamp their nose shut can they? But blind nasal intubation has an abysmal success rate. What if we could facilitate a nasotracheal intubation using a flexible...
“Perhaps the most important monitoring tool prehospital providers can use” – end-tidal waveform Capnography – it isn’t just for respirations anymore. Using a simple four-step assessment tech-nique, this program shows EMS providers of all levels how...
Ever have one of those days you wished they had covered some of the lesser used items in medic school in more detail…like Sgarbossa’s criteria? We know they covered it, but how often did you practice it? Did they really go over all the uses for it and some...
Since 1999, the term STEMI is how we guided our treatment and transport decisions. Twenty-three years is a LONG time without change! Best practice currently is to know when STEMI criteria isn’t enough. If you want to take your 12-lead game to a new level, attend...