Browsing: Prehospital Care

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

Critical Care Alert: INCEPTION Trial

3/7/2023 Gabriel Samuel 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

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 , 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 , 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 , 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.
Prehospital Care

Extending the Window: Updates in Prehospital Stroke Alert Identification Clinical Scenario

4/9/2019 Brittany Beel, MD
The DAWN and DEFUSE trials have expanded the window for stroke intervention. How is that affecting prehospital care?
EMS , Prehospital Care

From Bedside to Curbside: Prehospital Clinical Research Update

2/5/2019 Jeremy Lacocque, DO , Clifford Freeman, MD , Seth Kelly, MD, MBA, FF-(W)EMT
Clinical research guides the care your patients are receiving before they reach you. It pays to stay up to date with out-of-hospital evidence-based practices.

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Prehospital resuscitation

Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 01/20/2023

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

Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 01/16/2022

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

Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 01/16/2022

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

Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 01/16/2022
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