4 articles tagged airway.
Most seizures stop on their own. The ones that don't get harder to stop with every minute. Here's how to think about time, benzodiazepines, the airway and the glucose check.
Advanced airways get the attention, but oxygenation is the goal. A practical look at BVM technique, preoxygenation and the failed-airway thinking every paramedic needs before the first attempt.
The goal of an overdose call isn't a patient who's wide awake. It's a patient who is breathing. Here's how ventilation, naloxone titration and harm reduction fit together.
Anaphylaxis rarely looks textbook on arrival. The patients who do worst are often the ones where epinephrine waited for a lower blood pressure or a second opinion.