Browsing: EMS

Opinion-Editorial , Prehospital Care , EMS

A Letter from a Paramedic to an EM Doc

4/9/2021 Rob Canning Jr., JD, MBA, NRP

Whether waiting to unload a patient at the hospital or sitting in the ambulance after clearing a call, EMTs and paramedics (and increasingly social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician

Administration & Operations , Admin Ops Literature Review , EMS

The Impact of Prehospital Imaging Modalities: Literature and Strategies Review

12/17/2020 Davis Cho , Jared Ditkowsky, MD , Vineet Kumar Sharma, MD, MS

Prehospital imaging modalities have the potential to change the way we deliver prehospital care. However, the cost effectiveness of equipping EMS with portable imaging modalities has yet to be seen.

EMS , Consults , Medical Education

The Physician's Role in Providing EMS Feedback

12/1/2020 Courtney Shay, MD

As resident doctors, we are tasked with leading resuscitations, explaining our thought processes, and debriefing our team. All too often our pre-hospital peers are forgotten members of this team. We m

Trauma , Social EM , EMS

The Riot Trauma: What Injuries Should You Expect From Non-Lethal Police Weapons and Protests?

12/1/2020 Sriram Venkatesan, FAWM , Capt. Yev Maksimenko, MD, MA, DiMM, FAWM, FP-C

Protests have become a more common occurrence in 2020, and emergency physicians are seeing an increase in riot-related injuries in their hospitals. Become familiar with the weapons in the tactical and

EMS

Emergency Medical Dispatch: The True First Responder

8/17/2020 Bryan Everitt, MD, NRP , Katherine K. Raczek, MD

Each year, an estimated 240 million calls are made to 911, mostly by people with no previous EMS interaction. At the other end of the call is often a specially trained call-taker who - without ever se

COVID-19 , EMS

PPE in the Field During the COVID-19 Pandemic

6/28/2020 Hajirah Ishaq, DO, MS , Caity Friend

Prehospital personnel are truly on the frontlines of medicine, and they have been dramatically affected by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. As protocols shift according to supplies and emerging research, how

EMS , Disaster Medicine , Prehospital Care

Until Help Arrives - Prehospital Emergency Medicine All Citizens Should Have

6/10/2020 Luke Wohlford, MD, MPH

For a long time, prehospital emergency medicine education was limited to those training for jobs in the field. Only in the last several decades have mass education initiatives emphasized emergency med

EMS

EMS Ride-along Etiquette

4/23/2020 Christopher D. Laube, EMT-B

Riding along with an ambulance crew is a great way to see the side of emergency medicine most ED-based physicians don't get to see. Just know your role and follow the code of the road.

Disaster Medicine , Prehospital Care

Tactical Medicine: An Evolving EM Subspecialty

2/12/2020 Cameron B. Justice

A Q&A with a tactical medicine pioneer, Dr. John Wipfler III.

Toxicology , Disaster Medicine , Trauma

So I Watched CHERNOBYL… Now What? Revisiting Acute Radiation Syndrome

10/10/2019 Leslie Crosby, MD , Laura Roper, MD , Dorian Jacobs, MD

A targeted look at the effects of radiation sickness and what measures to take for decontamination and initial treatment.

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