With multiple studies showing patient harm from supplemental oxygen administration, a study published ahead of the April/June 2012 printing of Prehospital Emergency Care finds less than 100 percent oxygen is safe with CPAP.

Finally, the fire service has access to a comprehensive set of treatment protocols for empiric treatment of the leading killer of fire victims: cyanide.

Mike McEvoy reviews pulse CO-Oximetry technology that works and seems to have accuracy necessary to reliably supplement good clinical judgment in screening of firefighters and civilians at the scene of CO alarm responses, and patients on every EMS response.

Survival odds might be better if you’re shot, stabbed or critically injured in a crash on the weekend, according to a study of Pennsylvania trauma system data published in the March 21, 2011 issue of the Archives of Surgery.

A recent study serves as a warning to medical service providers that published guidelines may not always be supported by high-quality evidence and should not be relied on to replace critical thinking in practice.

Perhaps you occasionally have to intubate an obese patient? A Journal of Clinical Anesthesia study published in 2010 described a technique for maintaining oxygen saturation in patients during prolonged laryngoscopy attempts.

A recent study found that relatively simple clinical scoring systems applied by EMS may soon help recognize developing critical illness and direct patients with respiratory failure, sepsis, and other critical conditions to acute care facilities best able to care for severe illness.

Prehospital oxygen titrated with pulse oximetry lowered risk of death compared to high flow oxygen in a large Australian study.

A landmark study of compression citizen CPR in Arizona published in the October 6, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reported not only substantial increase in citizens providing CPR but also significantly improved survival.

A recent study provides further evidence that too much oxygen can reduce survival and impair recovery in cardiac arrest survivors.