Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or CPAP is a BLS and ALS tools that can save lives, reduce hospitalization times, and provide better patient management in the field.
Courses with Mike McEvoy
EMS Coordinator
Saratoga County, New York
Mike McEvoy, PhD, NRP, RN, CCRN, is the EMS coordinator for Saratoga County, N.Y., and a nurse clinician in the cardiothoracic surgical intensive care units at Albany Medical Center where he also teaches critical care medicine and chairs the hospital resuscitation committee. He is a paramedic supervisor and the CME coordinator for Clifton Park-Halfmoon EMS, a firefighter and chief medical officer for West Crescent Fire Department, a member of the JEMS editorial board, and the EMS editor for Fire Engineering magazine. Mike is the chair of the International Association of Fire Chiefs EMS Section board of directors and lead author of the textbook Critical Care Transport and the Informed pocket guide series (Jones & Bartlett). In his free time, he is an avid hiker and winter mountaineer.
CPAP, BiPAP and high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy are all non-invasive ventilation (NIV) tools that save lives. Discover the history of NIV, see the various NIV tools, patient selection criteria, standards of care, assessment, application, troubleshooting and NIV training tips. Disposable CPAP devices, BiPAP units and soon-to-be available prehospital HFNC units can drastically improve outcomes when used appropriately. Mike McEvoy will show you how NIV can improve the care you provide to patients.
Capnography reflects ventilation, perfusion, metabolism, acid-base balance and reflects the effectiveness of critical patient care interventions. Many educational programs teach capnography using static pictures of capnography waveforms, but by incorporating capnography into simulated patient care situations, you can give providers the knowledge to interpret end-tidal CO2 in fast-paced, real-life patient care situations.
Please join us for this event sponsored by iSimulate.
