Patient Care

Miracle on 66th Street: Patient falls 47 stories and beats impossible odds

„A surviving victim of„a scaffolding collapse„fell approximately 47 stories into an alley between two buildings. The clinicians who cared for this patient called his survival and recovery nothing short of a miracle.

Posted Friday, September 5, 2008

Provocative Protocols

This article reviews the adult ALS protocols of four EMS systems, each serving populations greater than 1 million.

Posted Friday, September 5, 2008

Shock Factor: How donut magnets can suspend inappropriate ICD shocks

This article discusses the benfits of ICDS, their possible defects, and how to identify bad shocks.

Posted Friday, September 5, 2008

The Need for 12-Lead: A vague chief complaint turns out to be something more

This case demonstrates the importance of 12-lead ECGs, STEMI recognition and rapid door-to-needle time for proper intervention and recovery whenever a provider thinks the incident may be cardiac-related.

Posted Friday, September 5, 2008

The Golden Hour

How Time Shapes Airway Management

Posted Monday, September 1, 2008

The Video Laryngoscopy Movement

Can-Do Technology at Work

Posted Monday, September 1, 2008

Editor's Foreword

Endotracheal intubation has been considered the gold standard in airway management in EMS systems for decades. When I went through paramedic training in 1976, anesthesiologists—initially skeptical about endorsing the performance of this advanced airway skill in the prehospital environment—agreed to instruct us and allow us into the operating room (OR) to intubate their patients. Well, at least some of their patients.

Posted Monday, September 1, 2008