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Am I Normal? Finding the Baseline
When it comes to vital clinical skills that simply aren’t taught in EMT class, it’s hard to think of one more important, more frequently called upon, and less formally instilled than this: the ability...
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Mastering BLS Ventilation: Introduction
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 “BLS” are...
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Mastering BLS Ventilation: Hardware
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-hospital staff...
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Mastering BLS Ventilation: Core Techniques
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 techniques for...
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Mastering BLS Ventilation: Supplemental Methods
Continued from Mastering BLS Ventilation: Introduction, then Mastering BLS Ventilation: Hardware, and finally Mastering BLS Ventilation: Core Techniques We said before that robust management of the...
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Mastering BLS Ventilation: Algorithms
Continued from Mastering BLS Ventilation: Introduction, then Mastering BLS Ventilation: Hardware, then Mastering BLS Ventilation: Core Techniques, and finally Mastering BLS Ventilation: Supplemental...
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Advanced CPR Techniques for Basic Providers
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 stuff that’s...
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Some Things to Say (part 3)
Becoming smarter is always a smart idea. But after they boot you out of EMT class, not only do you still need to learn a few textbooks-worth of medicine before you’re a semi-competent provider, you...
View ArticleToastmasters for Trauma Patients
Almost everybody in healthcare has to occasionally deliver verbal reports to their colleagues or counterparts, and almost everybody starts out bad at it. It’s a weird skill and one that takes practice,...
View ArticleWhat the Heck is a General Impression?
I’m tired of all the mumbo-jumbo. Here’s my beef. Every medical provider, particularly those who work in the acute setting (such as prehospital medicine, critical care, or the emergency department),...
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