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08/27/2026

Three cardiac arrest patients. Three King LTs placed on the first attempt. Three perforated hypopharynxes found on postmortem CT.

Why it matters: In all three cases, breath sounds were documented as normal. Insertion was described as easy. Nothing at the scene said anything was wrong.

The findings (Prehospital Emergency Care, Maniwa et al.):

All three patients developed extensive subcutaneous emphysema. Two had pneumothorax, one a tension pneumothorax with mediastinal shift.

CT showed the tube deviated anterolaterally off the esophageal axis in each case. The suspected culprit: the piriform recess, a lateral pocket that can trap the tube tip during off-midline insertion.

The takeaway: Auscultation confirms nothing. First-pass success confirms nothing. Continuous waveform capnography is the only thing that tells you where the gas is actually going, and subcutaneous emphysema after insertion is a red flag, not a curiosity.

Insert midline. If you meet resistance, stop. Do not repeat a blind attempt.

These three were found only because both hospitals routinely perform postmortem CT. Most systems do not. Which raises the real question: how often is this happening and never discovered?

📚 Read the full study:https://media.handtevy.com/website/Hypopharyngeal-Perforation-Associated-with-King-Laryngeal-Tube-Use-in-Prehospital-Cardiac-Arrest-Management.pdf

08/25/2026

Your lights and sirens might be the worst thing you bring to that call.

Yeah. Read that again.

We roll up on scene with lights blazing and sirens screaming because that's what we do. That's protocol. That's how you announce "help is here."

But if your patient has autism, that entrance can be the thing that turns a manageable call into a full-blown crisis before you even open the truck door.

A new protocol out of Brazil's state EMS system just gave us an operational framework for treating individuals with ASD in the field, and it should make every one of us rethink our default approach.

The numbers should stop you cold:

→ Individuals with ASD are hospitalized at higher rates than typically developing patients
→ They arrive by ambulance 14% of the time, compared to 6% for patients without ASD
→ Autism diagnoses in adults aged 26-34 increased approximately 450% between 2011 and 2022
→ Pediatric ED visits for intentional self-harm rose 329% from 2007 to 2016

This isn't a rare pediatric edge case. This is a growing population that's showing up on your calls more and more, including adults, and most of us never got trained for it.

Here's the culture problem: EMS runs on speed and control. We're taught fast assessment, fast transport, command the scene. That instinct can be exactly wrong for a patient with ASD, who needs predictability, reduced sensory input, and time.

So what do you actually DO differently on scene?

The protocol lays it out in a framework called See-Hear-Feel-Speak:

→ See: Dim the lights. Kill the flashing distractions.
→ Hear: Turn off monitor alarms, radios, unnecessary chatter. Quiet the truck.
→ Feel: Let them hold something familiar. Skip the scratchy hospital blanket if you can.
→ Speak: Short sentences. Their name. Eye level. Yes/no questions. Repeat as needed.

Practical field moves that cost you nothing:

→ Turn off lights and sirens roughly 500 meters out if it's safe to do so
→ Look for ASD identifiers (puzzle piece stickers, infinity symbols) on the house or car
→ Keep the caregiver close. They're your best translator.
→ Expect the call to take longer. Build that into your mental clock.
→ Watch for high pain thresholds masking real injury. Don't assume calm means fine.

None of this requires new equipment. None of it requires a bigger budget. It requires us to slow down our instincts and adjust our approach to the patient in front of us instead of the patient we trained for.

This protocol got formally adopted as an official SOP by an entire state fire department. That's not a suggestion. That's a system deciding this population deserves a real plan instead of improvisation.

So here's my question for you: when's the last time your agency trained on this? Not "read a memo about autism awareness." Actually ran a scenario, practiced the approach, rehearsed the de-escalation?

If the answer is never, that's the gap this protocol is trying to close.

📚 Read the full study:https://media.handtevy.com/website/Development-and-Institutional-Implementation-of-a-Prehospital-Emergency-Care-Protocol-for-Individuals-with-Autism-Spectrum-Disorder.pdf

08/19/2026

It's time to take a closer look at how agencies are using ScanSafe™ 📲💉

Join us 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟲 𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 to hear leaders from Keller EMS, Monroe-Livingston EMS, and Mehlville EMS share how they use ScanSafe™ during active emergencies and how they made barcode medication verification part of everyday care.

See what changed at the point of care and how they made it routine.
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08/19/2026

𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡. 𝐖𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞.

New national study out of Boston Children's. 793,459 pediatric EMS transports, 2019 to 2022.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: Pediatric trauma center (PTC) care is associated with lower mortality and sustained survival benefit. The call about where a critically injured child goes gets made on scene, by us.

𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬:
✴️ 97,985 kids (12%) met ACS Field Triage Criteria for trauma center care.
✴️ 33% had no access to any trauma center inside 60 minutes.
✴️ Of the 56% who did have a PTC in reach, only 40.6% were taken to one.
✴️ 50.5% went to a non-trauma center. Not a general trauma center. A non-trauma center.
✴️ Median transport to a PTC: 20.3 minutes. To everywhere else: 14.8 minutes.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭: 5.5 minutes. That is the entire median difference. Scene times were statistically identical (p=0.55). The authors' own read is that PTC transport was probably feasible in more of these cases than it happened in.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝: Adolescents 13 to 15 (36.6% reached a PTC). Rural and suburban kids (over 62% went to non-trauma centers). And more than half of children with a GCS of 3 to 8.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠: Access here was measured zip code to zip code, so true access is likely worse than the paper reports. And separately, Glass et al. found the pediatric readiness survival benefit holds out to 45 minutes of transport. The time budget is bigger than we behave like it is.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧: Only 25 states have adopted the national field triage standard. In most of the country, one of the most consequential decisions a clinician makes on scene is not backed by a system. It is backed by instinct. That is a system failure, not a clinician failure.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Do you know where your nearest Level I or II pediatric trauma center is? Do you know the drive time? Does your protocol tell you when to bypass the closest ED to reach it? If your crew cannot answer those three questions today, that is the gap this study just measured.

𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲:https://media.handtevy.com/website/Pediatric-Trauma-Center-Utilization-for-Children-Transported-by-Emergency-Medical-Services.pdf

08/17/2026

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 1 𝐢𝐧 7 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: Droperidol returned to EMS protocols in 2019 after nearly two decades of black-box exile. A generation of clinicians is now using it for the first time, with almost no prehospital safety data at the antiemetic dose.

𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 (284 patients, 29 EMS agencies, 90% dosed at 1.25 mg IV):
→ 15.5% had at least one adverse event
→ 8.5% arrived at the ED with a GCS below 15
→ 6.7% became hypoxic
→ Hypotension 3.2%, hypoventilation 0.4%

𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭: Serious events were rare. No airway catastrophes. Most events were mild sedation, which means very different things for a healthy 28-year-old with gastroenteritis versus a 79-year-old on home oxygen.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡: Older adults looked worse on paper (22% vs 12.4% adverse events, hypoxia 13.2% vs 3.6%), but the difference did not hold after adjustment (OR 1.79, 95% CI 0.91 to 3.51). The study was likely underpowered. No significance is not the same as no risk. Trauma patients also stood out: 5 of 9 had an event, a small number worth watching.

𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Droperidol is a sedative that happens to treat nausea. Pick your patient accordingly.

If your protocol offers both ondansetron and droperidol, what actually makes you reach for droperidol first?

handtevy.com/website/Incidence-of-Adverse-Events-with-Prehospital-Use-of-Droperidol-for-Nausea-or-Vomiting.pdf

08/12/2026

It's that time of year again! The team spent the day sharpening their lifesaving skills with our annual 𝗖𝗣𝗥 & 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘆 right here at Handtevy HQ 💪 And luckily, we had some of the best instructors in the business already on the team.

Ryan Gentilcore led us through Adult CPR with Handtevy Mobile's CPR Assist®, Dan Moran covered Infant CPR + Choking, and Dr. Peter Antevy took us hands-on with Stop the Bleed training.

We spend every day supporting the people who respond when seconds matter, so it only makes sense that our own team stays ready, too. At Handtevy HQ, preparedness isn’t just something we talk about. It’s something we practice. 💥

08/10/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐌𝐒 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭.

A 35-year-old jumped from the ferry platform at the start of an Alcatraz triathlon. Before he surfaced, another athlete landed on his head. He was face down in 12°C water, unable to move his arms or legs, surrounded by hundreds of swimmers.

Another competitor turned him over and held his head above water.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: The SMR pendulum has swung hard. NAEMSP's trauma compendium found no published literature supporting spinal immobilization. But "stop collaring everyone" is not the same as "never restrict motion," and in-water trauma with obvious neurologic deficit is one of the few remaining indications in consensus guidance.

𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬:
→ 17-minute scene interval, 9.4-minute transport
→ 2.4 km of manual cervical stabilization on the back of a personal watercraft
→ MRI at 1 hour 52 minutes, OR at 3 hours 41 minutes post-arrival
→ Discharged day 12, ambulating independently at six months

𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭: This is an N of 1. The authors are candid that they cannot know whether SMR helped, harmed, or did nothing. His deficits were immediate at impact, not delayed.

𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Drowning was the first life threat, and the airway drove every decision that followed. The recovery was built into a medical plan approved long before race day.

If your agency covers open water events, who is trained to ask "can you move your arms and legs" before the patient reaches the boat?

Read the full study:https://media.handtevy.com/website/Open-Water-Cervical-Spine-Injury.pdf

$New research shows most unstable pelvic fractures never get a binder in the field.Only 17% of patients with a confirmed ...$

08/07/2026

New research shows most unstable pelvic fractures never get a binder in the field.

Only 17% of patients with a confirmed unstable pelvic fracture got a pelvic binder before reaching the hospital.

Why it matters: Unstable pelvic fractures can bleed fast, and quietly. A binder put on early, and on the right patient, can slow that bleeding. Miss it and you may miss the window.

By the numbers: Researchers looked at 319 confirmed pelvic fracture patients at one trauma center over five years.

▪️ Just 9% of all patients got a binder in the field. Only 17% of unstable fractures did.
▪️ Other countries do this more. The UK: 26.5%. Switzerland: 59%.
▪️ Pain during the field pelvic exam nearly doubled the odds the fracture was truly unstable (OR 2.24).
▪️ Every 10-point drop in systolic blood pressure raised those odds too (OR 1.13).
▪️ A falling GCS, meaning a less alert patient, also raised them (OR 1.09).

Yes, but: Local guidelines in this study just say to "attempt to stabilize if you suspect a pelvic fracture." They never say what counts as suspicious. Vague guidance leads to vague practice.

The catch: A low binder rate isn't automatically the problem. A recent NAEMSP position statement found little evidence behind prehospital binders at all, and binders carry risk. They've been tied to pressure sores, nerve injury, and at least one case where blood pressure got worse because that fracture pattern didn't need squeezing. Not every pelvic fracture benefits, and we're still sorting out which ones do.

Bottom line: This isn't just underuse. It's a problem of knowing who needs one. Clearer criteria, like the New Brunswick consensus statement that weighs pain, instability, GCS, and blood pressure together, could help crews reach for binders more often on the patients who need them, and less often on the ones who don't.

Should EMS protocols set defined criteria for binder use, or is the bigger need better field tools to tell which fractures actually benefit?

Read the full study here:https://media.handtevy.com/website/Prehospital-Application-of-Pelvic-Binders-for-Suspected-Pelvic-Ring-Injuries-A-Retrospective-Cohort-Study.pdf

08/06/2026

𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 time! 💥 Meet Ashley, our longest-standing Customer Success team member and the one person who sits on the front line of both Support and Success at Handtevy HQ. Every interaction reflects her commitment to making sure our customers feel supported, valued, and set up for success.

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Ashley takes customer calls and support emails with real care while owning her own accounts on the Customer Success side. She spots problems before they escalate, follows through every time, and is always available to train a new teammate or jump in for a colleague—all while continuing to grow her own skills. She goes full steam ahead, every day!

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08/05/2026

New research shows EMS crews often can't tell croup from asthma, and it's affecting what they give kids

Nearly 1 in 3 toddlers with croup got a lung-opening drug that doesn't help croup at all.

Why it matters: Croup and asthma look similar in a scared, crying toddler. But they need very different care. Get it wrong, and a child may miss the treatment that actually helps.

By the numbers: Researchers looked at over 1,300 EMS records for kids under 3.

▪️ Most crews just wrote "respiratory distress," a vague label, for both croup and asthma-type cases.
▪️ Only 17% of croup cases got a specific note like "croup" in the chart. For asthma-type cases, it was just 5%.
▪️ 28% of croup patients got albuterol, a drug made for asthma, not croup.
▪️ Breathing gas levels (EtCO2) were checked in only 8% of kids.
▪️ Of kids whose oxygen stayed low the whole call, 1 in 5 got no oxygen and no note explaining why.

Yes, but: This isn't crews being careless. Sick kids are rare calls, only about 13% of all EMS runs. Less practice means less confidence telling these conditions apart, especially when a toddler is crying and won't hold still for a good listen.

The catch: Crews weren't just skipping paperwork. Many truly may not be catching the difference in the moment, not just failing to write it down.

Bottom line: This points to a training and protocol gap, not a "bad medic" problem. Clearer guidelines and more hands-on pediatric practice could help crews catch these differences faster and treat the right problem the first time.

Should protocols spell out croup versus wheezing more clearly, or is the real fix more hands-on training with sick kids?

Read the full paper here:https://media.handtevy.com/website/Prehospital-Assessment-and-Treatment-of-Infants-and-Toddlers-in-Respiratory-Distress-A-Retrospective-Analysis.pdf

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