Airway

MEDEST118 REVIEW - RSI is the gold standard when we talk about intubating a spontaneously breathing patient but DSI is becoming a classic. And is recommended by Scott Weingart and Seth Trueger, not properly two “new kids on the block”…

FROM EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS - It is an atypical Saturday in your busy Level One trauma center as, fortunately, the knife and gun club seems to be taking the day off. You’ve just gotten a quick bite to eat when you hear the radio go off. EMS…

Finally, an affordable manikin that you dont have to clean! The Basic Buddy™ CPR Manikin is a dramatic, inexpensive, and state-of-the-art manikin designed for teaching individuals or large groups the life-saving techniques of CPR. This…

Second part Cardiac arrest survival, male v. female There are mixed results from data compiled from two European studies. In a French study that reviewed data on almost 500,000 patients, researchers found that more women did not…

Civil Disobedience and Physicians — Protesting the Blockade of Medicaid Charles van der Horst, M.D. on  NEJM On May 6, 2013, I was arrested by the North Carolina Capitol Police in front of the doors of the state Senate chamber, protesting…

The use of live animals in paramedic training program at the University of Washingon could be stopped. UW's course is the only one in the Pacific Northwest known to use live animals for train EMT about surgical airway management. The other…

Do's and don'ts of administering CPR is the title of a really interesting lesson that Fox News broadcast on July. Erin Tolbert, a certified Famili Nurse Practicioner who found the midlevely.com blog, explain the basical rules of CPR that…

Comparison of the effectiveness of conventional intubation with a laryngoscope in a moving ambulance and on a static ambulance. An experimental study.

The Vortex is a “high stakes cognitive aid” - simple enough to be recalled in a crisis and flexible enough to be used in any context. Our philosophy is to train staff for management of the unanticipated difficult airway in the same manner…

From Life in the Fastlane collections we publish the most interesting online video resources about the airway management by Chris Nickson LITF sources from "Own the airway" collection - http://lifeinthefastlane.com/own-the-airway/ Let’s…