By Michael N. Ciampo
Vent, don’t vent; hit it from the inside, hit it from the outside; control the door; wash your gear; and use the “puck” when performing chest compressions - you have probably come across these topics in your training or reading lately. Each topic is deserving of a column in itself. Although much has changed in what we have learned from modern science, much also has remained the same, such as, “Ventilation should coincide with the application of water.”
Maybe some of the bickering on both sides of the argument is because departments differ in size and available staffing and respond to structures with varying construction types. In addition, maybe we aren’t doing all we can to provide realistic scenarios for our training, or our training is so old-school or budget-limited that we can’t train on everything we respond to daily.
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