A Wake-up Call on Airway Management

The National EMS Quality Alliance (NEMSQA) has provided evidence-based quality measures designed to improve EMS performance and patient care. These measures areas like clinical effectiveness, patient safety, and patient experience. Using standardized definitions that map directly to NEMSIS fields, these measures provide individual EMS agencies, regions, and states a way to measure and enhance their performance. On a national scale, these measures identify variations in care and highlight best practices to improve the EMS industry.

"Improving airway management isn’t about accepting low performance – it’s about taking the information we have and using it to drive change. By focusing on standardized processes, embedding essential checkpoints into our workflow and leaning on quality measures, we can make real strides. And with the lessons learned from the NEMSQA EQUIP Airway Collaborative, we’ll have the insights we need to close the gaps. The goal is straightforward: keep pushing EMS forward to a higher standard of care, one airway measure at a time."

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