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These Clinical Care features by EMS Magazine provide expert ongoing education on patient care in the prehospital setting for all emergency medical services practitioners. Topics cover all major medical considerations in EMS including patient assessment, vital signs, treatment of injury, trauma, pregnancy and birth, pediatrics, geriatrics, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), respiratory and airway topics, toxicology, bleeding, allergic reaction, diabetes and more.
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New Device May Minimize Death in Disaster Zones
Researchers have developed a device that could become a godsend for paramedics and may help save many lives in disaster zones.
Lessons From the Battlefield
How military medicine technologies and techniques may benefit patients of civilian EMS.
Burning Issues
By understanding the pathophysiology of burns, providers can give patients their best chance at good outcomes.
- Over-the-Counter Overdoses
- 'Not Like Herself at All'
- Critical Transport Issues
- Literature Review: Intranasal vs. IV Naloxone
- Uninterrupted Chest-Compressions Key to Survival
- Minimal Training Saves Lives With Airway Mask
- CE Article: Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
- Hold That Epi!
- Good Intubators Do It More Often
- Chest Pain: To Treat or Not To Treat?
- Skills Review: The CHF Patient
- Critical Decisions
- New Cardiac Care Technologies Save Teen Athlete
- Backseat Baby
- Caffeine-Packed Energy Drink Leads to 911 Call
- Shortness of Breath
- Belly Full of Trouble
- The EMS Detective
- Case Studies in Ventricular Tachycardia
- Pandemic Planning & the Swine/H1N1 Flu
- Literature Review: Injuries to Taser Subjects
- Literature Review
- Can't Pee, Eh?
- Cue the Cath Lab
- Just A Headache?
- STEMI Care: Evolution of a Benchmark
- Women Likelier to Experience Non-Traditional Stroke Symptoms
- Cerebral Hemorrhage
- Beyond the Basics: Electrolyte Disturbances
- Surge Capacity
- The Vital Signs, Part 2: Pulse
- Excited Delirium
- Beyond the Basics: Syncope
- Vital Signs Part 1: Blood Pressure
- Are Your CPR Skills Up to Speed?
- Beyond The Basics: Trauma During Pregnancy
- Prehospital Pediatric Airway Management
- ETT Cuff Inflation Assessment
- Beyond The Basics: Four Fatal Pulmonary Problems
- Literature Review: Terminating Resuscitation
- Intervene-ous Line
- Environmental Emergencies
- What you didn't learn in EMT School
- Beyond the Basics: Pulmonary Edema
- Safe to Stick
- Literature Review: Feedback, Debriefing Effects on CPR
- Sweet 16