Reader Steve Carroll passed along this recent case report from the Annals of Emergency Medicine. It’s behind a paywall, so let’s summarize. What happened A young adult male was shot three ...
Who was Harry Watts? You probably haven’t heard of him, unless you’re English — like he was — and you lived in the 19th century — like he did. That’s because he was nobody special. He...
https://emsbasics.com/2014/03/19/those-who-save-lives-harry-watts/
Mostly, people get into healthcare because they want to help people. And there’s no bigger and better way to help than saving lives. Of course, that’s not really a cool thing to talk about, a...
https://emsbasics.com/2014/02/18/those-who-save-lives-the-royal-humane-society/
So you’re an EMT operating at the BLS level, and you understand that when it comes to cardiac arrest, you’re the man. Sure, you’ll call for the medics if you get there first, but the stu...
https://emsbasics.com/2013/01/14/advanced-cpr-techniques-for-basic-providers/
Continued from Mastering BLS Ventilation: Introduction, then Mastering BLS Ventilation: Hardware, then Mastering BLS Ventilation: Core Techniques, and finally Mastering BLS Ventilation: Supp...
https://emsbasics.com/2012/08/07/mastering-bls-ventilation-algorithms/
Continued from Mastering BLS Ventilation: Introduction, then Mastering BLS Ventilation: Hardware, and finally Mastering BLS Ventilation: Core Techniques We said before that robust managemen...
https://emsbasics.com/2012/08/05/mastering-bls-ventilation-supplemental-methods/
Continued from Mastering BLS Ventilation: Introduction and Mastering BLS Ventilation: Hardware Now that we understand the goals and the basic tools, let’s talk about the most important techn...
https://emsbasics.com/2012/07/31/mastering-bls-ventilation-core-techniques/
Continued from Mastering BLS Ventilation: Introduction The basic tool of BLS oxygenation is the bag-valve-mask, aka the bag-mask (as the AHA calls it), aka the Ambu-Bag (as most in-hospita...
https://emsbasics.com/2012/07/05/mastering-bls-ventilation-hardware/
Sometimes, patients can’t breathe. When that happens, we need to breathe for them. Simple enough. This is life support at its most fundamental, and many of the interventions classified as “BL...
https://emsbasics.com/2012/07/01/mastering-bls-ventilation-introduction/
Update: Our friends at EMS 12 Lead have put together a “sister post” to this one, with further discussion and some additional clips. Check it out! Although we’ve talked about the fundame...
https://emsbasics.com/2012/03/15/what-it-looks-like-cardiac-arrest-and-cpr/