The Airway Assistant If intubation is not part of your scope of practice, the whole procedure may feel foreign. This is especially true if you work in a crew configuration that does not include a paramedic. Perhaps you’ve experienced a situation like this: you call for an ALS intercept, the crew arrives, performs what seems like a thousand tasks quickly, intubates the patient, and then they’re gone. These situations might leave you with at least a few questions:   •  How do they know which...

In Search of Proof I was researching the aging respiratory system for a geriatric trauma class when I came across a source that said...

Expectation vs. Reality It’s July 4th, and you’re working a 24. The plan is simple: between calls, stop by the grocery store for grilling...