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Avoiding Common Prehospital Errors, will help you develop the deep understanding of common patient presentations necessary to prevent diagnostic and treatment errors and to improve outcomes. Providing effective emergency care in the field is among the most challenging tasks in medicine. You must be able to make clinically vital decisions quickly, and perform a wide range of procedures, often under volatile conditions.Written specifically for the prehospital emergency team, this essential volume in the Avoiding Common Errors Series combines evidence-based practice with well-earned experience and best practices opinion to help you avoid common errors of prehospital care.Look inside and discover…• Concise descriptions of each error are followed by insightful analysis of the “hows” and “whys” underlying the mistake, and clear descriptions of ways to avoid such errors in the future.• “Pearls” highlighted in the text offer quick vital tips on error avoidance based on years of clinical and field experience.• Focused content emphasizes "high impact" areas of prehospital medicine, including airway management, cardiac arrest, and respiratory and traumatic emergencies.
Section I Airway Management 1        Don’t Have a Failed Airway Because You Failed to Prepare Marianne Gausche-Hill  2        Don’t Forget to Properly Position the Patient Prior to Attempting Intubation! Christopher Touzeau and Benjamin Kaufman  3        Which Patients Should Undergo RSI? It’s Not Just About the Clenched Jaw! Benjamin Kaufman and Christopher Touzeau  4        If a Non-rebreather Is Not Cutting It, Slap on the PAP. Use Noninvasive Positive Pressure in Patients in Moderate to Severe Respiratory Distress Steven Barmach  5        Cannulas Aren’t Just for Supplemental Oxygen Anymore: Use EtCO2 for Differentiating Causes of Respiratory Distress Jonathan Wendell  6        Errors in Difficult Airway Assessment: Always Assess the Anatomy First Jonathan Wenk  7        Problems Encountered with Movement and Airway Management: Confirm and Reconfirm Endotracheal Intubation Scott H. Wheatley  8        High Pressure Airway? Lay Off the Cricoid! Benjamin Lawner  9        Don’t Be So Quick to Throw Your Battery-Operated Laryngoscope Away! Benjamin Lawner  10    Drop That Tube! Stephen C. Andrews  11    It’s Not All About Intubation: New Perspectives on Prehospital Airway Management Kevin G. Seaman  12    GCS Less Than 8? Don’t Automatically Intubate! Benjamin Lawner  13    I Can’t See Cords! What to Do When You’re Already in Too Deep Benjamin Lawner  14    Pediatric Airway Management: Don’t Underestimate the Value of a Stepwise Approach Spencer C. Smith  15    Practice Makes Perfect: There’s Never Enough Practice Jessica Manka and Cynthia Shen  16    RSI Without Paralytics? Just Don’t Do It Benjamin Lawner  17    Tantalizingly Tangible Techniques for Telegraphing the Tough Tube P. Marc Fischer and Kevin G. Seaman  Section II Respiratory Emergencies 18    Avoid Becoming a Patient When Transporting One Jeremy Brywczynski and Jared McKinney  19    Avoid Hyperventilation and Know the Downfalls of Positive Pressure in the Intubated Patient Jeffrey M. Goodloe  20    Be Careful of Just a Little Blood! Benjamin W. Webster  21    Fear the Tracheostomy Patient! Christopher B. Colwell  22    Common Pitfalls in the Use of Pulse Oximetry Karen Wanger  23    Beware the Intubated Patient! Jared McKinney and Jeremy Brywczynski  24    Don’t Underestimate Waveform Capnography in the Intubated Patient Jeffrey M. Goodloe  25    The Dos and Don’ts of Nitroglycerin in Acute Respiratory Distress James V. Dunford  26    Fear the Elderly Patient With New Onset Wheezing Marc Eckstein  27    The Perils and Pitfalls of Needle Decompression Jullette M. Saussy  28    Don’t Forget CPAP in Prehospital Respiratory Distress Kathleen Schrank  29    Use Caution With Morphine in Treatment of Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema       Neal Richmond and Jesse Yarbrough  30    To PE or Not to PE? Don’t Forget Embolism in the Patient With Shortness of Breath! Neal Richmond and Jesse Yarbrough  31    Avoid Inappropriate Administration of Furosemide Jullette M. Saussy  32    Shortness of Breath: It’s Not Always the Lungs Corey M. Slovis  33    Adults Get Stridor Too Jeff Beeson  34    The Perils of Treating a Patient in Status Asthmaticus John P. Freese  35    Toxic Inhalation Pitfalls J. Brent Meyers  36    Don’t Administer Too Much or Too Little Oxygen to the COPD Patient       Terence Valenzuela and Jarrod Mosier   Section III Cardiac Emergencies and ECG 37    Don’t Fail to Interpret Tachycardia        Sean Covant and Ray Fowler  38    Don’t Fail to Interpret Bradycardia Sean Covant and Ray Fowler  39    Don’t Be Fooled by These ECG Mimics       Sean Covant  40    Don’t Forget That There Are Many Causes of Chest Pain David Lehrfeld  41    Don’t Forget to Analyze Wide Complex Tachycardias       David Lehrfeld  42    Don’t Miss the Subtle ECG Findings of STEMI              A. J. Kirk  Section IV Management of Cardiac Arrest 43 Don’t Overlook the Role of Hands-Only CPR in Community-Based Strategies for Survival         Jennifer Triaca 44 Don’t Overlook the Uses of Capnography in Cardiac Arrest Max Patterson and Jonathan C. Wendell 45 Do Not Interrupt CPR for More Than 10 Seconds: It Can Be the Difference Between Staying Alive and Biting the Dust Jonathan Wenk 46 Pay Close Attention to BLS Intervention!              Joel Higuchi 47 Refer Your Patients With ROSC to the Most Appropriate Facility             Bruce G. VanHoy 48 It’s a Cold Day on the Horizon: Chill Your ROSC Patients Out!            Rick Leonard and Kevin G. Seaman 49 Chest Compressions Are Your Most u201cAdvancedu201d BLS Technique           Gregory R. Valcourt and Kevin G. Seaman 50 CPR Devices: Don’t Believe Everything You Hear           Sam Matta 51 Confirmation Is About More Than Direct Visualization, Especially in Cardiac Arrest           Scott H. Wheatley and Elizabeth Moye 52 Know When to Say u201cWhen!u201d: Termination of Resuscitation Efforts in Cardiac Arrest           Thomas G. Chiccone 53 Noninvasive Airway Management in Cardiac Arrest: Think Beyond Intubation           Alexander J. Perricone 54 Do Not Fail to Ensure Quality Chest Compressions!          Cerisa C. Speight and Dale E. Becker 55 Involve Your Community in Cardiac Arrest: Together You Can Make a Difference           Cassandra M. Chiras and Kevin G. Seaman 56 Teamwork in Cardiac Arrest: No One Codes Alone            Elizabeth L. Seaman and Kevin G. Seaman 57 Think About Where to Begin Your Resuscitation!            Gregory R. Valcourt and Kevin G. Seaman  Section V  Tr
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