Bleeding control and proper patient management are essential to increasing the likelihood of positive patient outcomes. Are you ready to stop the bleed?

Did you know chest wall trauma is the third most common blunt injury in the “unintentional injury” category? Let's review the different types.

When providing trauma treatment, stopping patients from bleeding and using wound packing are paramount. But first, let's dispel some long-standing myths.

Many professionals who have been involved in emergency medical services for a long time now were not provided the correct information at the beginning. Let's go through the correct seizure terminology we should all be using when referencing seizures.

During our patient assessment scenarios during lab training, every one of us learned to regurgitate scene safety and body substance isolation protocols. But did we really look over the scene? Did we really take the time to determine if we needed to wear more than gloves? The answer to both questions is “unlikely.”

Autonomic dysreflexia is a medical emergency. Hypertension in a patient with a spinal injury is autonomic dysreflexia until proven otherwise. If you can treat the cause quickly, you can prevent some diseases that have high associated morbidity and mortality rates.

One of the most common endocrine disorders is hypothyroidism. But there is evidence to support the idea that mild hypothyroidism is over treated by family physicians.

While the topic remains up for debate as to exactly how much fluid these patients should have, there is supportive evidence to allow for a moderate intake for chronic heart failure patients, since the fluid overload is not within the systemic circulation.

When a patient presents with traumatic anterior cord syndrome, your primary responsibility and focus is supporting vital function and attending to concomitant injuries, stabilization and transport to a trauma facility.