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Airway Management

The National Association of EMS Physicians Compendium of Airway Management Position Statements and Resource Documents
Henry E. Wang, Michael Levy, and David C. Cone

Prehospital Airway Management Training and Education - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document -  Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 3-13

Quality Management of Prehospital Airway Programs - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 14-22

Prehospital Manual Ventilation - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document  - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 23-31

Prehospital Supraglottic Airways - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document  - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 32-41

Prehospital Drug Assisted Airway Management - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 42-53

Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Airway Management - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document  - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 54-63

Prehospital Trauma Airway Management - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 64-71

Optimizing Physiology During Prehospital Airway Management - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 72-79

Prehospital Noninvasive Ventilation - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 80-87

Prehospital Mechanical Ventilation - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 88-95

Prehospital Surgical Airway Management - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 96-101

Prehospital Pediatric Respiratory Distress and Airway Management Training and Education - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 102-110

Quality Management of Prehospital Pediatric Respiratory Distress and Airway Programs - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 111-117

Prehospital Pediatric Respiratory Distress and Airway Management Interventions - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 118-128

Novel Technologies and Techniques for Prehospital Airway Management - NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document - Prehospital Emergency Care 2022; 26: 129-136

Alternate Airways in the Out-of-Hospital Setting

POSITION STATEMENT:  Alternate Airways in the Prehospital Setting. Prehospital Emergency Care 2007;11(1):294.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903120601021143#.Vdtt5PlViko

Current Version Release Date: January 2007

Previous Version(s): none

RESOURCE DOCUMENT:  Guyette FX, Greenwood MJ, Neubecker D, Roth R, Wang HE. Alternate airways in the prehospital setting (resource document to NAEMSP position statement). Prehospital Emergency Care 15;11(1):56-61. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903120601021150#.VdtuM_lViko

Current Version Release Date: January 2007

Previous Version(s): none 

Drug-Assisted Intubation in the Prehospital Setting

POSITION STATEMENT:  Drug-assisted intubation in the prehospital setting position statement of the National Association of Emergency Physicians. Prehospital Emergency Care2006;10(2):260.
 
Joint Position statement of the NAEMSP9, ACEP3, ACSCOT4

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903120500541514#.VdtwK_lViko

Current Version Release Date: January 2007

Previous Version(s):
2001 - {REPLACED, 2006} Wang HE, O'Connor RE, Domeier RM, NAEMSP. Prehospital rapid-sequence intubation. Prehospital Emergency Care 2001;5(1):40-48. 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10903120190940317#.VduAlflViko

1999 – O’Connor RE, Swor RA, NAEMSP. Verification of Endotracheal Tube Placement Following Intubation Prehospital Emergency Care 1999;3(3):248-250.

http://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10903129908958945

RESOURCE DOCUMENT:  Wang HE, Davis DP, O'Connor RE, Domeier RM. Drug-assisted intubation in the prehospital setting (resource document to NAEMSP position statement).Prehospital Emergency Care 2006;10(2):261-271. 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903120500541506#.VdtwePlViko

Current Version Release Date: 2006

Previous Version(s): none 

Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

POSITION STATEMENT:  Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation. Prehospital Emergency Care 2011;15(3):418.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/10903127.2011.561418#.VdtnTflViko

Current Version Release Date: December 2010

Previous Version(s): none

RESOURCE DOCUMENT:  Daily JC, Wang HE. Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation: Resource Document for the National Association of EMS Physicians Position Statement.Prehospital Emergency Care 2011;15(3):432-438.

http://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/10903127.2011.569851#abstract

Current Version Release Date: December 2011

Previous Version(s): none

Recommended Guidelines for Uniform Reporting of Data from Out-of-Hospital Airway Management

POSITION STATEMENT:  Wang HE, Domeier RM, Kupas DF, Greenwood MJ, O'Connor RE, NAEMSP. Recommended Guidelines for Uniform Reporting of Data From Out-of-Hospital Airway Management: Position Statement of the National Association of EMS Physicians.Prehospital Emergency Care 2004;8(1):58-72.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/31270300282X#.Vdt2XflViko

Current Version Release Date: June 2003

Previous Version(s): none

RESOURCE DOCUMENT: none 

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