Airway Management: Airway management is an area of pre-hospital care that often gets overlooked, particularly at the BLS level, yet it is...

Paramedic Med-Math: There is actually a surprisingly small amount of math required in paramedicine, as many of our medications are set...

Pharmacology 101: As a paramedic we are not expected to be doctors or pharmacists, however a foundational understanding of basic...

Advanced Assessment Guide: Prehospital patient assessment is designed to be versatile and allow the paramedic to use rapid and focused...

Gastrointestinal/Genitourinary Pathologies: Appendicits: In appendicitis, there is an obstruction of the appendiceal lumen, typically by...

Neurological pathologies: Cerebrovascular Accidnent (CVA/Stroke): A CVA occurs when there is interruption of blood flow to an area of the...

Acute Coronry Syndrome: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a blanket term to describe all chest pain (or its equivalents) resulting from a...

Respiratory Pathologies: Asthma: Asthma is a reactive airway disease. This means that its symptoms are the result of a bodily reaction to...

The scene assessment: The scene assessment begins as you approach the address or location of the emergency call. On pulling up to the...

This series will focus on working through the differential diagnosis for the 3 most common causes of 911 services activation; those...

Head Trauma management: In the case of head trauma, particularly blunt head trauma, we are primarily concerned with elevated ICP. The...

Respiratory distress vs respiratory failure and how to treat them: Respiratory Distress: A patient is said to be in respiratory distress...

Cholecystitis Pathophysiology: The gallbladder works in conjunction with the liver to produce and house bile, for use in fat breakdown...

Appendicitis Pathophysiology: The appendix is largely considered to be a vestigial organ, no longer of much use in the body. It houses...

Anaphylaxis: Anaphylaxis, or anaphylactic shock as it is more accurately termed, occurs when an environmental trigger causes a systemic...

Pulmonary Embolism PE occurs when a thrombus, generally a DVT, breaks loose and becomes lodged in one or more branches of the pulmonary...

COPD COPD is an umbrella term used to describe patients with the 2 most common obstructive lung diseases; Emphysema, and Chronic...