EMS Virtual Issue
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Compiled by David C. Cone, MD
The papers below are key articles from Academic Emergency Medicine, covering topics such as disaster, trauma, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, refusal-of-care, and many others.
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Pilot Instrument Proficiency: Flight of Fancy or Emergency Medical Services Concern?
Role of Pilot Instrument Proficiency in the Safety of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
Cost–Effectiveness of Helicopter Transport of Stroke Patients for Thrombolysis
A Prospective Study of the Impact of Multiple Patient Transports on Care Provided during Aeromedical Transport
Epidemiology of Adverse Events in Air Medical Transport
Association of Direct Helicopter Versus Ground Transport and In-hospital Mortality in Trauma Patients: A Propensity Score Analysis
In-vitro Comparison of Bag-Valve-Mask and the Manually Triggered Oxygen-powered Breathing Device
Inadvertent Esophageal Intubation in the Field: Reliance on a Fool's “Gold Standard”
Out-of-hospital Experience with the Syringe Esophageal Detector Device
Does Your Emergency Medical Services System Need a Device to Confirm Endotracheal Intubation?
Out-of-hospital Rapid-sequence Induction for Intubation of the Pediatric Patient
Multivariate Predictors of Failed Prehospital Endotracheal Intubation
Emergency Physician–Verified Out-of-hospital Intubation: Miss Rates by Paramedics
An Evaluation of Out-of-hospital Advanced Airway Management in an Urban Setting
Human Patient Simulation Is Effective for Teaching Paramedic Students Endotracheal Intubation
Out-of-hospital Endotracheal Intubation—It's Time to Stop Pretending That Problems Don't Exist
How Many Attempts Are Required to Accomplish Out-of-hospital Endotracheal Intubation?
Limited Opportunities for Paramedic Student Endotracheal Intubation Training in the Operating Room
Illumination of Bulb-on-blade Laryngoscopes in the Out-of-hospital Setting
Paramedic Self-efficacy and Skill Retention in Pediatric Airway Management
Advanced Airway Management Does Not Improve Outcome of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest
Out-of-hospital Endotracheal Intubation: Are Observational Data Useful?
Can Untrained Laypersons Use a Defibrillator with Dispatcher Assistance?
Prevalence of Aspirin Use among Patient Calling 9-1-1 for Chest Pain
A Comparison of Two Automated External Defibrillator Algorithms
Emergency Department Gridlock and Out-of-hospital Delays for Cardiac Patients
A Community Intervention by Firefighters to Increase 911 Calls and Aspirin Use for Chest Pain
Influence of Sex on the Out-of-hospital Management of Chest Pain
Electrocardiographic Telemetry: Determining Its Value in Emergency Medical Services
Treatment of Out-of-hospital Supraventricular Tachycardia: Adenosine vs Verapamil
Toward a new view of emergency medical services
Unscheduled Access to Health Care: Reengineering the 911 System
Ambulance Transports: What Are the Alternatives?
Out-of-hospital Spinal Immobilization: Is It Really Necessary?
Subcutaneous Naloxone: A Less Rude Awakening?
Rethinking Gatekeeping: A Closer Look at Its Application to Emergency Medical Services
Asking the Right Questions– Physician-assisted Suicide and Emergency Medical Systems
Electrocardiographic Telemetry: Determining Its Value in Emergency Medical Services
To Treat or Not to Treat (Out-of-hospital) Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia, That Is the Question
Treatment of Out-of-hospital Supraventricular Tachycardia: Adenosine vs Verapamil
The Problem of Ambulance Misuse: Whose Problem Is It, Anyway?
Appropriate Emergency Medical Services Transport
Outcomes Research and Emergency Medical Services: The Time Has Come
Emergency Medical Services Advanced Life Support Response Times: Lots of Heat, Little Light
Tracers in Emergency Medical Services Research
If You’ve Seen One EMS System, You’ve Seen One EMS System…
More Science for the New Subspecialty
New Tools for Estimating the EMS Transport Interval: Implications for Policy and Patient Care
Inadvertent Esophageal Intubation in the Field: Reliance on a Fool's “Gold Standard”
Defibrillation and Public Expectation
Utstein: Proactively Improving the Quality of Cardiac Arrest Research
Pilot Instrument Proficiency: Flight of Fancy or Emergency Medical Services Concern?
A Cardiac Arrest is a Cardiac Arrest is a Cardiac Arrest
Does Your Emergency Medical Services System Need a Device to Confirm Endotracheal Intubation?
Witnessed Collapse and Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: What Is Really Going On?
Quo Vadis: “Scoop and Run,”“Stay and Treat,” or “Treat and Street”?
Trauma Triage: Where Do We Go from Here?
Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest and the Utstein Style: Meeting the Customer's Needs?
Emergency Preparedness: The World Trade Center and Singapore Airline Disasters
Mass-casualty Triage Systems: A Hint of Science
Trauma Systems and Emergency Preparedness: The Hand Bone's Connected to the Arm Bone…
Out-of-hospital Endotracheal Intubation—It's Time to Stop Pretending That Problems Don't Exist
Out-of-hospital Endotracheal Intubation: Are Observational Data Useful?
The Timing of Therapeutic Hypothermia Initiation
The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: Disaster Management, Part 1: Community Emergency Response
Disaster Medicine: Advances in Local Catastrophic Disaster Response
National Disaster Plans Crucial: Local Practitioner Readiness Essential!
Disaster Medicine: Current Assessment and Blueprint for the Future
Disaster Nomenclature–A Functional Impact Approach: The PICE System
Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response to a Singapore Airliner Crash
Recollections of September 11, 2001
Emergency Preparedness: The World Trade Center and Singapore Airline Disasters
Site Management of Health Issues in the 2001 World Trade Center Disaster
Information Technology and Emergency Medical Care during Disasters
A Multiphase Disaster Training Exercise for Emergency Medicine Residents: Opportunity Knocks
Mass-casualty Triage Systems: A Hint of Science
Precise Formulation and Evidence-based Application of Resource-constrained Triage
Trauma Systems and Emergency Preparedness: The Hand Bone's Connected to the Arm Bone…
The Measurement of Daily Surge and Its Relevance to Disaster Preparedness
The Creation of Emergency Health Care Standards for Catastrophic Events
Characteristics of Medical Surge Capacity Demand for Sudden-impact Disasters
Using Immersive Simulation for Training First Responders for Mass Casualty Incidents
Disaster Preparedness of Nationally Certified Emergency Medical Services Professionals
The Evacuation of Cairns Hospitals Due to Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi
I-35W Bridge Collapse and Response
Comparison of the Medical Priority Dispatch System to an Out-of-hospital Patient Acuity Score
Dispatcher Assistance and Automated External Defibrillator Performance Among Elders
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Dispatch-assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instructions
Why Bystanders Decline Telephone Cardiac Resuscitation Advice
Impact of Ambulance Diversion Policies in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas of Central Maryland
Development of an Emergency Department Work Score to Predict Ambulance Diversion
The Effects of Ambulance Diversion: A Comprehensive Review
The Financial Impact of Ambulance Diversions and Patient Elopements
The Financial Impact of Ambulance Diversion on Inpatient Hospital Revenues and Profits
Variations in Crowding and Ambulance Diversion in Nine Emergency Departments
Model Curriculum in Emergency Medical Services for Emergency Medicine Residency Programs
SAEM Emergency Medical Services Fellowship Guidelines
Estimating the Probability of Passing the National Paramedic Certification Examination
Emergency Medical Services Education in Emergency Medicine Residency Programs: A National Survey
Human Patient Simulation Is Effective for Teaching Paramedic Students Endotracheal Intubation
Limited Opportunities for Paramedic Student Endotracheal Intubation Training in the Operating Room
Using Immersive Simulation for Training First Responders for Mass Casualty Incidents
Predictors of Emergency Medical Services Utilization by Elders
Unexpected Events during the Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients
Inter-hospital Communications and Transport: Turning One-way Funnels Into Two-way Networks
Prehospital Care and New Models of Regionalization
The Evacuation of Cairns Hospitals Due to Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi
Emergency Medical Services in China
Effect of Military Conflicts on the Formation of Emergency Medical Services Systems Worldwide
Prehospital Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: Establishing Research Tenets
Concert Medicine: Spectrum of Medical Problems Encountered at 405 Major Concerts
Physician Medical Direction and Advanced Life Support in the United States
Online Medical Control and Initial Refusal of Care: Does It Help to Talk with the Patient?
Quantile Regression: A Statistical Tool for Out-of-hospital Research
National EMS Research Agenda: Proceedings of the Implementation Symposium
Prehospital Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: Establishing Research Tenets
Creating an Infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Emergency Medical Services
Outcomes Research and Emergency Medical Services: The Time Has Come
Defining the Outcome Measures for Out-of-hospital Trials in Acute Pulmonary Edema
Tracers in Emergency Medical Services Research
Defibrillation and Public Expectation
Utstein: Proactively Improving the Quality of Cardiac Arrest Research
Who Gets Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in a Witnessed Arrest?
Population Density, Automated External Defibrillator Use, and Survival in Rural Cardiac Arrest
Termination of Nontraumatic Cardiac Arrest Resuscitative Efforts in the Field: A National Survey
Automated External Defibrillators: Skill Maintenance Using Computer-assisted Learning
A Cardiac Arrest is a Cardiac Arrest is a Cardiac Arrest
Witnessed Collapse and Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: What Is Really Going On?
Association of Out-of-hospital Criteria with Need for Hospital Admission
Spontaneous Agonal Respiration in a Swine Model of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest
What is the Quality of Life for Survivors of Cardiac Arrest?
Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest and the Utstein Style: Meeting the Customer's Needs?
Now That We Have the Utstein Style, Are We Using It?
Surrogate Consent by Family Members for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Research
Dispatcher Assistance and Automated External Defibrillator Performance Among Elders
Attitudes of Law Enforcement Officers Regarding Automated External Defibrillators
Out-of-hospital Care of Critical Drug Overdoses Involving Cardiac Arrest
Termination of Resuscitative Efforts for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrests
Identification of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Clusters Using a Geographic Information System
Implementation of Community-based Public Access Defibrillation in the PAD Trial
Socioeconomic Status and Survival from Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest
CPR Training and CPR Performance: Do CPR-trained Bystanders Perform CPR?
Can Untrained Laypersons Use a Defibrillator with Dispatcher Assistance?
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Dispatch-assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instructions
Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in Denver, Colorado: Epidemiology and Outcomes
Procainamide and Survival in Ventricular Fibrillation Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest
Why Bystanders Decline Telephone Cardiac Resuscitation Advice
Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS): Rationale, Methodology, and Implementation
Identifying High-risk Geographic Areas for Cardiac Arrest Using Three Methods for Cluster Analysis
The Timing of Therapeutic Hypothermia Initiation
All HANDDS on Deck to Translate Research Findings Into Improved Outcomes
Family Response to Out–of–hospital Death
Advanced Airway Management Does Not Improve Outcome of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest
Medically Unnecessary Pediatric Ambulance Transports: A Medical Taxi Service?
Disturbing Trends in the Epidemiology of Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Use
Repeat Ambulance Use by Pediatric Patients
Care and Outcome of Out-of-hospital Deliveries
Mental Health Aspects of Emergency Medical Services for Children
Circadian Pattern of Ambulance Use for Children in a Japanese City
Pediatric Out-of-hospital Emergency Medical Services Utilization in Kansas City, Missouri
Root Causes of Errors in a Simulated Prehospital Pediatric Emergency
Paramedic Judgment of the Need for Trauma Team Activation for Pediatric Patients
Out-of-hospital Rapid-sequence Induction for Intubation of the Pediatric Patient
Paramedic Self-efficacy and Skill Retention in Pediatric Airway Management
Patient Refusal of Care in the Out-of-hospital Setting
Impact of Interventions for Patients Refusing Emergency Medical Services Transport
Out-of-hospital Treatment of Hypoglycemia: Refusal of Transport and Patient Outcomes
Short-term Outcome of Seizure Patients Who Refuse Transport after Out-of-hospital Evaluation
Online Medical Control and Initial Refusal of Care: Does It Help to Talk with the Patient?
The Golden Hour: Scientific Fact or Medical "Urban Legend"?
Transport Refusal by Hypoglycemic Patients after On-scene Intravenous Dextrose
Terbutaline vs Albuterol for Out-of-hospital Respiratory Distress: Randomized, Double-blind Trial
Out-of-hospital Ventilation: Bag-Valve Device vs Transport Ventilator
Defining the Outcome Measures for Out-of-hospital Trials in Acute Pulmonary Edema
Out-of-Hospital Administration of Albuterol for Asthma by Basic Life Support Providers
Paramedic Response Time: Does It Affect Patient Survival?
The “Vertical Response Time”: Barriers to Ambulance Response in an Urban Area
Reducing Ambulance Response Times Using Geospatial–Time Analysis of Ambulance Deployment
Emergency Medical Services Advanced Life Support Response Times: Lots of Heat, Little Light
Pre-hospital Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction
EMS Systems: Foundations for the Future
Out-of-hospital Spinal Immobilization: Is It Really Necessary?
Out-of-hospital Spinal Immobilization: Its Effect on Neurologic Injury
Unnecessary Out-of-hospital Use of Full Spinal Immobilization
Early Stroke Recognition: Developing an Out-of-hospital NIH Stroke Scale
Out-of-hospital Management of Stroke: Surveying Local Practice with Implication for Change
Strict Glucose Control After Acute Stroke Can Be Provided in the Prehospital Setting
Cost–Effectiveness of Helicopter Transport of Stroke Patients for Thrombolysis
Injury Prevention: Is There a Role for Out-of-hospital Emergency Medical Services?
Prospective Validation of Out-of-hospital Spinal Clearance Criteria: A Preliminary Report
The Significance of Out-of-hospital Hypotension in Blunt Trauma Patients
Out-of-hospital Spinal Immobilization: Its Effect on Neurologic Injury
Unnecessary Out-of-hospital Use of Full Spinal Immobilization
Relationships between Ambulance Transports for Alcohol Intoxication and Assault
Paramedic Judgment of the Need for Trauma Team Activation for Pediatric Patients
Quo Vadis: “Scoop and Run,”“Stay and Treat,” or “Treat and Street”?
Urban Trauma Transport of Assaulted Patients Using Nonmedical Personnel
Trauma Triage: Where Do We Go from Here?
Use of a Geographic Information System to Determine Appropriate Means of Trauma Patient Transport
A Comparison of Data Sources for Motor Vehicle Crash Characteristic Accuracy
Crash Scene Photography in Motor Vehicle Crashes without Air Bag Deployment
Is Total Out-of-hospital Time a Significant Predictor of Trauma Patient Mortality?
Prehospital Ultrasound Diagnosis of Traumatic Pericardial Effusion
The Association Between Hypothermia, Prehospital Cooling, and Mortality in Burn Victims
Injury-adjusted Mortality of Patients Transported by Police Following Penetrating Trauma
Field Extremity Amputation: A Brief Curriculum and Protocol
Intravenous vs Subcutaneous Naloxone for Out-of-hospital Management of Presumed Opioid Overdose
Gatekeepers: A Missed Opportunity for Safe Transport
Advanced Life Support vs Basic Life Support Field Care: An Outcome Study
Out-of-hospital Intravenous Access: Unnecessary Procedures and Excessive Cost
Oregon Emergency Medical Technicians' Attitudes toward Physician-assisted Suicide
Stress Levels in EMS Personnel: A Longitudinal Study with Work-schedule Modification
Family Response to Out–of–hospital Death
Out-of-hospital Provider Use of Epinephrine for Allergic Reactions: Pilot Program
Paramedic Accuracy in Estimated Time of Arrival: Significance in the Managed Care Environment
Out-of-hospital Treatment of Opioid Overdoses in an Urban Setting
Storage Temperatures of Out-of-hospital Medications
Acute Pain Is Underassessed in Out-of-hospital Emergencies
Customer Satisfaction in a Large Urban Fire Department Emergency Medical Services System
Impact of Ambulance Transportation on Resource Use in the Emergency Department
Risk Adjustment and Outcome Measures for Out-of-hospital Respiratory Distress
A Multicasualty Event: Out-of-hospital and In-hospital Organizational Aspects
A Contingent Valuation Study of the Appropriate User Price for Ambulance Service
Reasons Why Patients Choose an Ambulance and Willingness to Consider Alternatives
Clinical and Economic Factors Associated with Ambulance Use to the Emergency Department
Reduction in Ambulance Transports during a Public Awareness Campaign for Appropriate Ambulance Use
Safety of Paramedics with Extended Skills
Prehospital Ultrasound by Paramedics: Results of Field Trial
Evaluating Degradation with Fragment Formation of Prehospital Succinylcholine by Mass Spectrometry
Variations in Ambulance Use in the United States: The Role of Health Insurance
Geographical Variation in Ambulance Calls Is Associated With Socioeconomic Status
Prehospital Systolic Blood Pressure Thresholds: A Community-based Outcomes Study
Accuracy of Prehospital Transport Time Estimation
The Epidemiology and Outcome of Prehospital Respiratory Distress
Emergency Medical Services Naloxone Access: A National Systematic Legal Review
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