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Inside EMS Podcast: The difference between CPAP and BiPAP

Our co-hosts discuss the use of CPAP in the field and its pathophysiology

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In this Inside EMS Podcast episode, co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson are joined at the guest table with Paul Werfel. Werfel has 14 years of experience as a paramedic and is the paramedic program director at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Medical Center.

They discuss the use of CPAP in the field, its pathophysiology, how nitro works with CPAP and the difference between CPAP and BiPAP.

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