Airway , Critical Care , Prehospital Care

Hidden Triggers: Unmasking Anaphylaxis

3/18/2024 Lynnsey Moss, MD , Andrew Michalak, MD , Ray Isenburg, DO

Anaphylaxis is a true and potentially life-threatening emergency. Understanding that this condition has broader diagnostic criteria than are commonly recognized will help with early recognition and tr

EMS , Prehospital Care

Medical Direction in EMS: Get the Doc On the Line!

7/15/2023 Ava Omidvar , Kyle Cohen

The field of EMS — and alongside it, the role of the EMS physician — is growing each year. Thanks to this rapid growth in the past few decades, the idea of medical direction is evolving and developing

Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Cardiology , EMS , Prehospital Care

Critical Care Alert: INCEPTION Trial

3/7/2023 Gabriel Colon, MD , Brian Sumner, MD , Evan McMurray, MD

The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation - ECMO - as an adjunct to CPR following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has gained a lot of attention. The INCEPTION Trial takes a closer look at the evid

Prehospital Care , Administration & Operations

Using Home-Based Community Paramedics to Optimize Emergency Department Utilization for High-Risk Elderly Patients

2/12/2022 Nicholas Cozzi, MD, MBA , Gilbert Nelson, DO , Michael J. Rushton Jr., DO , Philip M. Fennema, EMT-P, CCP , Chad Barnhart, MD, EMT-P , Sean Anderson , Todd Chassee, MD, FACEP , Jeffrey S. Jones, MD, FACEP

Community paramedicine and mobile integrated healthcare are forming a new paradigm. Using paramedics to evaluate and treat medically complex elderly patients in the home setting could have wide-reachi

Prehospital Care

Event Medicine and Mass Casualty Response with Matt Friedman

2/12/2022 Jessica Andre , Matt Friedman, MD, FACEP

Matt Friedman, MD, FACEP, serves as Associate Medical Director of Prehospital Care and Director of Event Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center and Medical Director of CrowdRx, which provides physician

Prehospital Care , Cardiology

A Revamping of an Old Practice: Head-Up CPR

10/7/2021 Glenn Goodwin, DO, EMT-P , Charles Latimore, MD

From intravenous drugs and genetic engineering to highly advanced equipment to mind-blowing surgical techniques, medicine continues to evolve at an exponential pace. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR

Career Planning , Practice Environments , Community , Prehospital Care

Tactical Medicine Q-and-A: Life as a SWAT Doc

10/7/2021 Sriram Venkatesan, FAWM , Capt. Yev Maksimenko, MD, MA, DiMM, FAWM, FP-C

With > 50,000 yearly SWAT deployments in the U.S. alone and tactical environments that are not optimized for medical care, the need for well-trained physician-led tactical medical teams is clear. What

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

EMS , Disaster Medicine , Prehospital Care

Until Help Arrives - Prehospital Emergency Medicine All Citizens Should Have

6/10/2020 Luke Wohlford

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

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.

Browsing: Prehospital Care

Hidden Triggers: Unmasking Anaphylaxis

Medical Direction in EMS: Get the Doc On the Line!

Critical Care Alert: INCEPTION Trial

Using Home-Based Community Paramedics to Optimize Emergency Department Utilization for High-Risk Elderly Patients

Event Medicine and Mass Casualty Response with Matt Friedman

A Revamping of an Old Practice: Head-Up CPR

Tactical Medicine Q-and-A: Life as a SWAT Doc

A Letter from a Paramedic to an EM Doc

Until Help Arrives - Prehospital Emergency Medicine All Citizens Should Have

Tactical Medicine: An Evolving EM Subspecialty

#FOAMed and External Sources

Prehospital resuscitation

Higher pre-hospital anaesthesia case volumes result in lower mortality rates: implications for mass casualty care – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Provision of pre-hospital medical care for terrorist attacks – British Journal of Anaesthesia

Pre-hospital critical care at major incidents – British Journal of Anaesthesia

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