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Patient Care
A Critical Shut-Off Valve
Editor-in-chief, A.J. Heightman, believes there's no reason tourniquets shouldn't be used to safely and effectively control life-threatening bleeding from penetrating and other massive extremity injuries.
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.
Provocative Protocols
This article reviews the adult ALS protocols of four EMS systems, each serving populations greater than 1 million.
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.
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.
The Golden Hour
How Time Shapes Airway Management
The Video Laryngoscopy Movement
Can-Do Technology at Work
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.
The Military Experience
The GlideScope Ranger Improves Visualization in the Combat Setting.
Deconstructing Obstructions Techniques for relieving airway obstructions when your advanced airway techniques are exhausted
The following cases present some less common techniques for advanced airway management that you might need to apply someday.
Product Connect
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2010 Guidelines Compliant - AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC
New resuscitation science and treatment recommendations.
Featured Careers & Jobs in EMS
Articles
Day 6: Where in the World (of EMS) is A.J.?
The Ambulance Leadership Forum and a Yorkshire Ambulance... More >
Videos- Culture of Safety Draft Document
- Video: Demanding Safety
- Video: Factors of Risk
- Video: Integrated EMS
- Rural Example of Community Medicine
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Innovation & Progress
Follow in the footsteps of these inspirational leaders of EMS.
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Parking Garage Collapses at Maryland Shopping Mall
“Extended extrication” being done for a person pinned under a key section.
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Search Continues for Child in Minnesota Landslide
One child killed, two injured when gravel gives way at popular park.
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London: Emergency Services Called to “Serious Incident”
Officials consider killing as terror attack.
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Minnesota Park Landslide
One child dead, two injured and a fourth is missing during field trip tragedy.
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Day 6 in Pictures: Ambulance Leadership Forum
The Ambulance Leadership Forum in Warwickshire, England.
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The AmbuBus®, Bus Stretcher Conversion Kit - EMS Today 2013
AmbuBus®, Bus Stretcher all-hazards preparedness & response tool
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EZ-IO® Intraosseous Infusion System Real Time Humerus Infusion
Leg access using the EZ-IO.
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