Category: EMT
- Dress Code ()
- Setting The Stage For Obtaining A Patient History ()
Setting The Stage The patient doesn’t have the privilege of checking out the ambulance crew on the internet before they arrive. They are stuck with who they get (the same can be said for medics). Given the realities of responding to incidents, the patient may have had to wait a considerable time. Despite the fact […]
- Ventilation Of Protected Airways ()
At some point during the resuscitation, an advanced provider such as a Paramedic or AEMT will place an advanced airway into the patient’s airway. This measure is useful in that it resolves the problem of gastric distention, but it creates another problem: hyperventilation. The increased respiratory cycles will drop a patient’s blood pressure like a […]
- Automatic Transport Ventilator/Resuscitator ()
Transport ventilators, also known as portable ventilators, are mechanical ventilation devices designed specifically for emergency or transport scenarios. Like stationary ventilators, they help patients breathe by delivering either oxygen-enriched gas or room air into a patient’s respiratory system through invasive or noninvasive means. Rescuers around the world still reach for a bag valve mask (BVM) to manually ventilate a […]
- Manually Triggered Ventilation Device ()
Everybody Needs One Of These In Their Truck A flow-restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation device (FROPVD), also referred to as a manually triggered ventilation device (MTV), is used to assist ventilation in apneic or hypoventilating patients, although these devices can also be used to provide supplemental oxygen to breathing patients. It can be used on patients with […]
- Assisting Ventilation ()
The Patient Imagine if you will a patient with difficulty breathing is laying on the stretcher in the back of the ambulance. Their shortness of breath is turning into an inability to speak and the patient has a scared look in their eyes that tells you that they need serious help. The medics can see […]
- More Oxygen Delivery Devices ()
Partial Rebreather Mask Delivers oxygen concentrations between 60% to 80%. Partial Rebreather Mask does not have a valve covering the oxygen enrichment bag thus allowing the patient to re-breathe some exhaled gases. Flow rate is adjusted to keep the bag inflated (just like a non rebreather mask) but expect between 10 – 15 lpm. Tracheostomy […]
- Time To Clear The Air ()
Air Is A Type of Fluid When most people hear the word “fluid,” they usually think of liquid. However, gasses, like air, are also fluids. Fluids take on the shape of their containers. Fluids generally do not resist deformation when even the smallest stress is applied, or they resist it only slightly. We call this […]
- Problems With Ambient Air ()
Problems with ambient air can cause a patient to inexplicably experience shortness of breath. Imagine a situation where a patient is struggling to breathe but there is no history of medical problems. Perhaps the patient’s problem is the ambient air. Various situations that affect ambient air can result in hypoxia: Enclosed Spaces – Carbon dioxide […]
- A Complete Guide To Pulse Oximetry ()
At georgiaemsacademy, we teach that patients who are not alert may need positive pressure ventilation and that patients with rapid respiratory rate or demonstrated work of breathing need oxygen via non rebreather mask. It’s easy to keep things that simple if you are primarily looking at ventilation as all one has to do is count […]