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About Kevin Wetherbee, AS, NRP, EMS-1

Kevin Wetherbee, AS, NRP, EMS-I, began his EMS career right out of high school in upstate New York in 1984. He became a paramedic in 1986 and has worked in some form of EMS system since that time. He has experience in 911, non-emergent transport, emergency room care, inter-facility transport, critical care transport and industrial EMS. He currently instructs for DistanceCME, is a critical care medic operating in Columbia, SC, and is an educational subcontractor for the Teleflex corporation, providing emergency medicine device education throughout the country. He is a continuing education program administrator in South Carolina as well as an instructor in CPR, ACLS, PALS, PHTLS, AMLS and CEVO courses. He has earned his Associates of Applied Sciences degree in Emergency Medical Services and graduated with high honors from Corning Community College in Corning, NY.

November 2019

Strategies to improve care for mechanical ventilation patients

By Kevin Wetherbee, AS, NRP, EMS-1|2020-05-14T15:55:38-04:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: In the field|

Mechanical ventilation has come a long way in ease of use and adjustability, but there is still no substitute for provider judgement and intellect. No one piece of the puzzle is 100% reliable, so the practitioner must use all pieces in unison to arrive at an informed decision as to whether the patient is benefiting from interventions.