RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Difficult Airway Management: BLS through ALS, what’s the best? Airway management is the first and most critical objective in emergency patient care. We’ve found simple methods to rapidly identify and assess difficult airway conditions, new techniques to improve your odds of success, and novel ways to use the tools ...
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RescueDigest Resources: Cognitive Blindness
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Cognitive Blindness: What you don’t see can kill you. Call it size-up, assessment or situational awareness; the ability to perceive and interpret information is critical for managing any emergency incident. But when does focused concentration turn into tunnel vision? Sometimes the training and experience that we rely on to ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Critical Thinking in Emergency Services Education
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Critical Thinking in Emergency Services Education: Teaching not just “how”, but “why”! An emergency responder who is an independent thinking is a valuable commodity. It’s clear that critical thinking must be part of an education program in order to teach students to become intelligent, compassionate and skillful emergency responders. But ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Social Media Policies and Marketing for Emergency Services
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Social Media and Emergency Services: Promoting and policing your service. While department social media feeds are becoming commonplace, few agencies are using social media tools to promote their organization effectively. What policies and guides to use to keep your social media use on target and out of hot ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Caring for Geriatrics
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Caring for Geriatrics: The Challenge of Elder Care Today the proportion of the elderly in America is greater today than ever before and is growing even larger. What’s more, the elderly tend to be our sickest and most challenging patients. What signs and symptoms may indicate common disease ...
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RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Emergency Scene Management: It isn’t just a skill for the “white shirts”. From Officers and Managers to the Grunts on the street, we all have the potential to be First Due / On-Scene, arriving at calls that have the potential to quickly get away from us. While many ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Prehospital Intubation: To ET or Not ET?
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Prehospital Intubation: To ET or Not ET, that is the question. Do field-placed ET tubes improve patient outcomes? Should all cardiac arrest patients arrive at the hospital intubated? Exactly what airways qualify as BLS now? Should your airway choices change if the problem is medical illness or ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Difficult Student Behavior
RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Do YOU have difficult students like this? Dealing with Difficult Student Behavior: Is the solution policies, parenting or perhaps something else? The Know-it-all. The Worrier. The Heckler. The Rambler. The Cheater. Is one rotten apple going to spoil your whole program? How can educators differentiate between difficult students and difficult ...
Read More »RescueDigest Resources: Designer Drugs
Emergency Services in North American and Europe are confronted with a surge in new designer drugs with so-called “Bath-Salts” and “Spice” or synthetic marijuana are at the top of the list.
Read More »N.Y.C. Fire Dept. Rethinking Tactics in House Fires
Are our tactics up to date with our enemy? Are we doing the equivalent of fighting tanks with cavalry? Still put the wet stuff on the red stuff? Sure, but not in the same way that we have for 30-40-50 years. Fire behavior has changed because of the stuff that burns, how MUCH of it burns and the construction ...
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