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First Aid & CPR Training As A Mandate For Every Family: A Staten Island, NY Emergency Courses Update

TIMER

First aid is something that goes way beyond the contents of your medical box. With the pandemic coercing home quarantine and social distancing measures, one crucial thing that came to light was the lack of access to emergency medical services. WHY PARENTS AND GUARDIANS MUST GIVE EMERGENCY AND CPR TRAINING IMPORTANCE?

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On the Scene: Prehospital Care for Electrical Burns for EMTs

EMT Training Station

In the world of emergency medical services, encountering victims of electrical burns presents a unique set of challenges. As a veteran emergency medical technician (EMT), I’ve seen firsthand the critical importance of prompt and effective prehospital care in these situations.

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Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest: Pearls and Pitfalls

EMDocs

Louis) // Reviewed by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Case You are working in the trauma/critical care pod of your emergency department (ED). You receive a page for a cardiac arrest and take report from emergency medical services (EMS). Am J Emerg Med. Published 2022 Jan 3.

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Palliative and Hospice Care in the Prehospital Setting

NAEMSP

These can include feeling compelled to attempt resuscitation despite the team feeling it is futile or not consistent with the patient’s wishes, families demanding CPR despite the presence of a DNR, incompletely filled out DNR forms, and more. had performed CPR on a hospice patient, and 17.9% 2022 Sep;36(8):1228-1241.

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ToxCard: Benzonatate

EMDocs

When emergency medical services (EMS) arrived, she was in asystole with an empty, recently full, bottle of benzonatate 100 mg capsules. She received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and standard advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS). 2022-057779. PubMed PMID: 3788039. Pediatrics. 2022;150(6).

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Pediatric Submersion Injury Tips

ACEP Now

Optimally, bystander CPR, including the administration of rescue breaths, should be initiated prior to arrival of emergency medical services. 3 Once the patient arrives in your emergency department, a rapid review of the patient’s status and results of resuscitative efforts should be performed. 2023;53(4):416-418.

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Why should quality improvement concepts be integrated into EMS education?

NAEMSP

They begin CPR en route to the emergency department where the patient’s rhythm deteriorates into asystole. The ER physician in the destination emergency room determines that the endotracheal tube was misplaced in the esophagus. Prehospital Emergency Medicine Secrets. Elsevier; 2022:18-21. Prehosp Emerg Care.

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