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. This presentation provides a history of CPAP, overview of patient selection criteria, standards of care, assessment, application of CPAP in the field and transition of care to the Emergency Department. Disposable CPAP devices and use of capnography with the application and titration of CPAP promise to increase utilization and improve patient outcomes.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
This course will discuss considerations for utilizing non-invasive ventilation such as CPAP, BiPAP, and nasal capnography in the pre-hospital environment.
Course Type: Full-length Course
Course Duration: 60 min
Mike McEvoy discusses the use of disposable CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) masks, a method of assisting a patient's respiration without intubation.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
Mike McEvoy and company review points on securing and moving a patient using a stair chair.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
Mike McEvoy shares some tips on the low-frequency, high-risk technique of needle decompression of the chest.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
Mike McEvoy demonstrates how injured first responders can put a tourniquet on themselves.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
Mike McEvoy discusses the goal of limiting movement of the spine in a patient who may have sustained a spine injury.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
Mike McEvoy reviews some tips for measuring blood pressure in patients.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
Mike McEvoy shares some tips on delivering medicine to a patient for using a small-volume nebulizer.
Course Type: Short Video
Course Duration: 10 min
