All in Airway Management

Episode 83: Fundamentals of Bag Mask Ventilation with Rommie Duckworth

Episode 83: Fundamentals of Bag Mask Ventilation with Rommie Duckworth

Daniel Schwester
Airway Management, FOAMed, Interview

One of the most misunderstood pieces of equipment we have is the bag valve mask. Easy to operate, but hard to master, it’s one of the fundamental skills we need to master.

Rommie Duckworth is a nationally-known paramedic and educator in Connecticut who is truly passionate about education and ventilation, and Dan gets to pick his brain and talk about what really matters when we have to breathe for our patients who can’t do it for themselves.

Check out Rommie here:

https://romduck.com

If we’re talking airway or ventilation, Dr. Jim DuCanto isn’t far from the discussion. We talk about his method of BVM grip in the episode, and you can learn more here:

https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/emsworld/original-contribution/edge-there-better-grip-face-mask-ventilation

Here’s a paper Dan did with some colleagues showing smaller sized BVMs gave a more physiologically appropriate tidal volume and pressure:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234703/

The Refresh 2021 program is still available until March 31…..EMTs and Paramedics should jump on this, it’s totally FREE!

https://www.prodigyems.com/refresh2021

Episode 55: Outbreak EMS

Episode 55: Outbreak EMS

Daniel Schwester
Airway Management, Controversy, FOAMed, Health and Safety, MD1

Dan and Ed sit down on short notice to get some information together about what we as EMS clinicians are up against with the arrival of novel coronavirus.

This is a totally off-label discussion about personal protective equipment, airway management, patient assessment, and items that we are seeing on social media and the FOAMed world.

Please follow your local policies and guidelines, and involve your medical director and leadership with any modifications to your practice.

Follow us at Overrun Productions' YouTube channel, and the MD1 Program YouTube channel for daily updates and practice tips. Leave us questions in the comments section, and we can have our medical director, Dr. Mark Merlin, share his answers on them!

The Overrun is on YouTube at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGqDBcqJl3B0HLigT5Wl9AA

MD1 Program on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC93VE2Sr9AC3sMCN0W7uLQA

We're using the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource center for our data:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Twitter has been a good resource for FOAMed lately; here's some of the experts we're following:

Minh LeCong: @ketaminh

Salim R. Rezaie, MD:@srrezaie (www.rebelem.com)

Episode 44: Our Cric Show

Episode 44: Our Cric Show

Ed Bauter
FOAMed, Medicine, Airway Management

We talk about a wide variety of all things cricothyroidotomy: mental prep and training, the difference in the techniques that are out there, which one might work better, and lots of other stuff. We also shoutout to a LOT of other resources that will help you to really understand this low frequency, but critical procedure.

If this is in your scope of practice; or possibly in a situation where a clinician will use this; you need to know about this to be able to care for your patient.

Dr. Rich Levitan’s website:

https://www.airwaycam.com

Dr. Scott Weingart’s website:

https://emcrit.org

The EMCrit podcast can be found on iTunes (just like us!)…it’s one of the best around with literally hundreds of topics!

SMACC was an amazing prehospital/emergency/and critical care conference that changed how many of us looked at conferences and learning. Check out their stuff here:

https://smacc.net.au/blog/

New England Journal of Medicine paper on comparing cric techniques:

https://www.jwatch.org/em200503300000002/2005/03/30/open-cricothyroidotomy-vs-seldinger-technique

Here’s the case study about the NG tube going into the spinal column…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196070911000755