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Managing Acute Dyspnea | February 16, 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #asthma #breathing #dyspnea #ems #SOB
In this didactic training Dr. Chelsea White shares the varied presentations of dyspnea in the field and how recognize and treat each scenario following best practices.
Date added: 02/16/23
Sepsis in EMS | February 7th 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #antibiotics #ems #infection #sepsis
Sepsis is the body's life-threatening reaction to an infection. In the United States, sepsis affects 1.7 million people and takes 270,000 lives. As many as 87% of sepsis cases originate in the patient's community. EMS and prehospital practitioners are often ...
Date added: 02/7/23
Alcohol Abuse and Withdrawal | January 19, 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #alcohol use disorder #withdrawal
In this presentation Dr. Kimberly Pruett discusses alcohol abuse and withdrawal and EMS response to this chronic disease.
Date added: 01/19/23
Environmental Emergencies | January 3, 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #bites #ems #emt #environmental #hazards #heat stroke #hyperthermia #hypothermia
In this presentation, Dr. Paul Craven, MD speaks on effectively responding to environmental emergencies. He discusses bites and envenomation, management of hypo and hyperthermia and its components, how to define heat exhaustion, heat stroke & hyponatremia, variables attributed to altitude, ...
Date added: 01/3/23
Post Partum Hemorrhage, Preeclampsia, & Eclampsia | December 15, 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #eclampsia #emergency #ems #hemorrhage #ob #obstetrics #post-partum #preeclampsia #pregnancy
In this presentation, Dr. Petter Overton-Harris, DO, discusses post partum hemorrhage management in the pre-hospital setting, and provides an overview of pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, as well as a normal post partum timeline.
Date added: 12/15/22
Introduction to Neonatal Resuscitation | December 6, 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #ems #neonatal #neonate #pediatric intervention #resuscitation
This presentation addresses recognizing recent changes to the paradigm of neonatal resuscitation that differ from classic EMS teaching, identifying risk factors for the need for neonatal resuscitation and intervention in the immediate post-partum period, understand the importance of oxygenation and ...
Date added: 12/6/22
Evidence-Based Guideline: Treatment of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Adults: Report of the Guideline Committee of the American Epilepsy Society
Type: Policies & Procedures
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS ECHO Program
Keywords: #epilepsy #status epileptics
The goal of this current guideline is to provide evidence-based answers to efficacy, safety, and tolerability questions regarding the treatment of convulsive status epilepticus and to synthesize these answers into a treatment algorithm. This guideline focuses on convulsive status epilepticus ...
Date added: 12/6/22
Pediatric Seizure | November 17, 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #ems #pediatric #pediatric emergent care #seizure
In this presentation, Christian Mateo Garcia, MD, discusses types of pediatric seizures and complications, how to identify common causes of seizures in a child, how to identify a seizing child, assess a seizing child, and how to formulate a plan ...
Date added: 11/17/22
Child Abuse and Non-Accidental Trauma (NAT) | November 1, 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #child abuse #ems #non accidental trauma #pediatric #risk factors
In this presentation, Dr. Kimberly Pruett discusses Child Abuse and Non-Accidental Trauma (NAT) covering the topics of parental and child risk factors, common triggers for serious abuse, varied presentations seen in case studies, and appropriate response techniques.
Date added: 11/1/22
Bronchiolitis and Croup | October 20th 2022
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Emergency Medical Services ECHO Program
Keywords: #Bronchiolitis #croup #ems #pediatric #respiratory distress
In this presentation, Dr. Brittany Ebbing MD, MPH, provides an overview of common causes of pediatric respiratory distress. Discusses how to recognize clinical presentations for pediatric patients with bronchiolitis and croup as well as the appropriate first steps in management ...
Date added: 10/20/22