On January 26th, 2015, a unique collaboration between Twin City Ambulance and the Department of Anesthesiology of the University at Buffalo began. The workshop, Difficult Airway Management for the Paramedic, was conducted by Dr. Terrence Burns and CA-2 Resident, Dr. Matthias Grube.
The program opened with a historical overview of Emergency Medical Services in the prehospital setting. For many years, funeral directors provided ambulance services. Chest compression-only methods of resuscitation were in vogue and fell to the wayside (now resurrected as current best practice). In 1972, all of that changed with the NBC hit series Emergency, an action-adventure depicting the work of Los Angeles Paramedics.
The authors shared their experiences as EMT’s in Bonn, Germany and Buffalo, New York prior to medical school. In Germany, physicians are stationed at the fire department or a large university center. The vast majority of them are board certified internists, surgeons or...
