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Methodology for Evidence Evaluation and Reporting of the NAEMSP Trauma Compendium Position Statements Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Christian Martin-Gill, John W. Lyng
Background: Position statements from national organizations commonly vary in methodology for the evaluation of existing literature and the development of recommendations. Recent national recommenda...
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The Public Health and Economic Impact of Drug Overdose Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in the United States Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ryan A. Coute, Brian H. Nathanson, Aditya C. Shekhar, Christopher N. White, Michael C. Kurz, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Timothy J. Mader, for the CARES Surveillance Group
To calculate disability-adjusted life years (DALY) and labor productivity loss due to drug overdose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (DO-OHCA) and compare its contribution to the burden of disease an...
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Characteristics and outcomes of patients referred to a general practitioner by Victorian paramedics Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Belinda Delardes, Emily Nehme, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Samantha Chakraborty, Shelley Cox, Karen Smith
Many patients who are attended by paramedics do not require conveyance to an emergency department (ED). Our study focuses on comparing the characteristics and outcomes of patients who were advised ...
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Position Statement: Expert Witness Qualifications and Ethical Guidelines for Emergency Medical Services Litigation Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 W. Ann (“Winnie”) Maggiore, Ryan C. Jacobsen, Douglas F. Kupas
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Just accepted, 2024)
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Crystalloid Fluid Management of Non-Traumatic Hypotension by New South Wales Ambulance Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Pieter Francsois Fouche By Dr., Martin Nichols, Justin Scott, Jack Richardson, Jason Bendall A/Prof.
IntroductionShock is circulatory insufficiency, inadequate oxygen delivery, and cellular hypoxia. Intravenous fluids are essential for shock management. Despite treatment, patients can face persist...
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Efficacy and Safety of Prehospital Diltiazem Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ellen Pil, Matthew Levy, Timothy Chizmar, Ruben Troncoso, Eric Garfinkel, Asa Margolis
Objective: This study assesses the likelihood of clinical improvement and adverse events from EMS-administered diltiazem. Current prehospital protocols direct paramedics to administer diltiazem, a ...
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Exploring the Potential of CarbonCool® in Rapid Prehospital Cooling for Severe Heat Stroke Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Norihiro Kido, Takashi Tagami, Kosuke Otake, Akihiro Watanabe, Yudai Yoshino, Masaki Ishimuro, Kazuya Miyakami, Junichi Inoue
Heat stroke is a life-threatening condition that is characterized by body temperatures above 40 °C and central nervous system dysfunction. Immediate cooling is imperative to prevent irreversible ce...
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Rural Emergency Medical Services Clinicians’ Perceptions and Preferences in Receiving Clinical Feedback from Hospitals: A Qualitative Needs Assessment Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Katherine Schneider, Mimi Williams, Nicholas M. Mohr, Azeemuddin Ahmed
Objective: Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians experience dissatisfaction with the quality and quantity of clinical feedback from hospitals. Satisfaction is further diminished by the lack o...
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Hemorrhagic Shock in Isolated and Non-isolated Pelvic Fractures: A Registries-Based Study Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Amir Gottfried, Sami Gendler, David Chayen, Irina Radomislensky, Ilan Y. Mitchnik, Israel Trauma Group, Elad Epshtein, Avishai M. Tsur, Ofer Almog, Tomer Talmy
Background: Pelvic fractures resulting from high-energy trauma can frequently present with life-threatening hemodynamic instability which is associated with high mortality rates. The role of pelvic...
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A retrospective comparison of upper and lower extremity intraosseous access during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Tanner Smida, Remle Crowe, Jeffrey Jarvis, Taylor Ratcliff, Mat Goebel
Intraosseous (IO) access is frequently utilized during the resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients. Due to proximity to the heart and differential flow rates, the anatomical...
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False Electrical Capture in Prehospital Transcutaneous Pacing by Paramedics: A Case Series Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Joshua Kimbrell, Judah Kreinbrook, Dana Poke, Brittany Kalosza, Jacob Geldner, Aditya C. Shekhar, Andrew Miele, Tom Bouthillet, John Vega
The use of transcutaneous pacing (TCP) for unstable bradycardia has a class 2B recommendation from the American Heart Association. Prior studies have not adequately described the frequency or possi...
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Performance of the Medical Priority Dispatch System ® in identifying patients requiring chest compressions at overdose prevention services: a retrospective cohort study Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Richard Armour, Brian Grunau, Sammy Iammarino, Jane Buxton, Brooke Kinniburgh, Heather Burgess, Kali-Olt Sedgemore, Paul Choisil, Suzanne Nielsen, Linda Ross
The Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) ® is used to triage 9-1-1 calls according to acuity, with certain coding receiving telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) for suspected o...
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Prehospital Extended FAST Exams Improve Clinical Decision Making by Helicopter EMS Crews: A Retrospective Case Series Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Benjamin Smith, Daniel Willner, William Roper, Christopher McGrath
Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) has seen increasing use in the prehospital environment over the last decade, primarily with the extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma (eFAST) exam. ...
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Understanding the Role of Empathy and Gender on EMS Clinician Occupational Stress and Mental Health Outcomes Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Mikayla Schwartz, Jonathan Berkowitz, Molly McCann-Pineo
Background: Emergency Medical Service (EMS) clinicians experience high levels of occupational stress due to long hours, short staffing, and patient deaths, among other factors. While gender has bee...
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A National Assessment of EMS Performance at the Response and Agency Level Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Michael Redlener, David G. Buckler, Samuel E. Sondheim, Sai Kaushik Yeturu, George T. Loo, Kevin G. Munjal, Jeffrey Jarvis, Remle P. Crowe
In 2019, the National EMS Quality Alliance (NEMSQA) established a suite of 11 evidence-based EMS quality measures, yet little is known regarding EMS performance on a national level. Our objective w...
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Ambulance traffic crashes in Japan: Characteristics of casualties, and efforts to improve ambulance safety Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Tatsuya Norii, Shunichiro Nakao, Tomoyuki Miyoshi, Tetsuo Hatanaka, Tasuku Miyake, Aya Okunaga, Danielle Albright, Darren Braude, David P Sklar, MingAn Yang, Cameron Crandall
Background:An ambulance traffic crash not only leads to injuries among Emergency Medical Service (EMS) professionals but also injures patients or their companions during transportation. We aimed to...
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“Head Up CPR” is Not Ready for Widespread Adoption (R2, Clean Version) Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Jeffrey L. Jarvis, Michael R. Sayre, Remle P. Crowe, James J. Menegazzi, Henry E. Wang
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Just accepted, 2024)
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The Female Emergency Medical Services Experience: A Mixed Methods Study Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Molly McCann-Pineo, Meghan Keating, Tara McEvoy, Mikayla Schwartz, Rebecca M. Schwartz, Jonathan Washko, Elizabeth Wuestman, Jonathan Berkowitz
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a challenging profession. Little is known if there are gender differences in the experiences among EMS clinicians. Therefore, our aim was to understand and chara...
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Prehospital Use of Waveform Capnography in Intubated Neonates Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Krista Hartmann, Brittney Calatayud, Avram Flamm
Introduction:Routine continuous monitoring of endotracheal tube placement with waveform capnography is considered standard of care in the prehospital setting. However, maintaining this standard in ...
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Could CPAP Devices Be Used To Ventilate Cardiac Arrest Patients? A Bench Study Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Filippo Consolo, Luca Cabrini, Tommaso Scquizzato, Giovanni Landoni, Giacomo Monti
Objectives: To investigate the potential efficacy of a commercial continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ventilator to provide effective respiratory support in a simulated scenario of out-of-ho...
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Prehospital blood transfusion: A cross-sectional study of prehospital and retrieval medicine services across Australia & Aotearoa-New Zealand Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Oscar Wigginton, Sue Johnson, Bethan Jervis, Anil Joshi, Mardi Steere, Ian Ferguson
BackgroundThe frequency and type of prehospital blood product delivery across Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand is unknown. This study aims to describe transfusion practice across different servic...
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Rural EMS STEMI Patients – Why the delay to PCI? Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jason P. Stopyra, Anna C. Snavely, Nicklaus P. Ashburn, Michael W. Supples, W. Mark Brown, Chadwick D. Miller, Simon A. Mahler
Background: The objective of this study is to identify patient and EMS agency factors associated with timely reperfusion of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Methods: We con...
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Correction Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-02
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2024)
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Prehospital Airway Management – the Continued Search for Evidence Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Henry E. Wang
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prehospital Airway Management: Methods and Resources Document Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Christopher B. Gage, Jonathan R. Powell, Nicole Bosson, Remle Crowe, Kyle Guild, Matthew Yeung, Davis Maclean, Lorin R. Browne, Jeffrey L. Jarvis, J. Matthew Sholl, Eddy S. Lang, Ashish R. Panchal
Emergency airway management is a common and critical task EMS clinicians perform in the prehospital setting. A new set of evidence-based guidelines (EBG) was developed to assist in prehospital airw...
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Evidence-Based Guideline for Prehospital Airway Management Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Jeffrey L. Jarvis, Ashish R. Panchal, John W. Lyng, Nichole Bosson, Joelle J. Donofrio-Odmann, Darren A. Braude, Lorin R. Browne, Michael Arinder, Scott Bolleter, Toni Gross, Michael Levy, George Lindbeck, Lauren M. Maloney, Connie J. Mattera, Cheng-Teng Wang, Remle P. Crowe, Christopher B. Gage, Eddy S. Lang, J. Matthew Sholl
Airway management is a cornerstone of emergency medical care. This project aimed to create evidence-based guidelines based on the systematic review recently conducted by the Agency for Healthcare R...
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Prehospital sepsis recognition and outcomes for patients with sepsis by race and ethnicity Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Sean MacAllister, Antonio R. Fernandez, Michael J. Smith, J. Brent. Myers, Remle P. Crowe
Background First medical contact for patients with sepsis often initiates in the prehospital setting, yet limited studies have explored the EMS sepsis recognition-mortality relationship. Racial and...
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Acknowledgment Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 28, No. sup1, 2023)
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Prehospital Care Research Forum Abstracts 2023 Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 28, No. sup1, 2023)
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Quality Improvement and Safety Abstracts for the 2024 National Association of EMS Physicians Annual Meeting Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 28, No. sup1, 2023)
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Innovations in EMS Education Abstracts for the 2024 National Association of EMS Physicians Annual Meeting Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-11
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 28, No. sup1, 2023)
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Brugada syndrome as an underlying diagnosis for a pre-hospital seizure dispatch Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Kristopher Bianconi, Wayne Zielinski, Scott Fischer, Jenna Ferlazzo, Matthew Steenberg, Navin Ariyaprakai
Brugada syndrome is an inherited genetic disorder known to cause a variety of patient complaints but may ultimately cause ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death. We present a patient wit...
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The Coronary Reperfusion Effect and Safety of Prehospital P2Y12 Inhibitor in Primary-PCI STEMI Patients: A systematic review and Meta-analysis Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Yung-Hua Chou, Cheng-Chieh Huang, Chia-Kai Chang, Jing-Lan Huang, Bo-Han Jang, Tsung-Han Lee, Kun-Te Lin, Wen-Liang Chen, Chu-Chung Chou, Yan-Ren Lin
The concept of early administration of P2Y12 inhibitor in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is widely accepted, but whe...
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Comparison of intubating conditions with succinylcholine versus rocuronium in the prehospital setting Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 JT Ramsey, Killian M. Pache, Michael R. Sayre, Charles Maynard, Nicholas J. Johnson, Catherine R. Counts
Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is frequently performed by emergency medical services (EMS). We investigated the relationship between succinylcholine and rocuronium use and time until first laryngo...
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Challenges and experiences in multicenter prehospital stroke research: Narrative data from the Rapid Intervention with Glyceryl trinitrate in Hypertensive stroke Trial-2 (RIGHT-2) Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Mark Dixon, Julia Williams, Philip M. Bath, for the RIGHT-2 Investigators
BackgroundAmbulance services are increasingly research active and the Rapid Intervention with Glyceryl trinitrate in Hypertensive stroke Trial-2 (RIGHT-2) is the largest United Kingdom (UK) ambulan...
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Outcomes with Tibial and Humeral Intraosseous Access Compared to Peripheral Intravenous Access in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Cameron Benner, Jonathan Jui, Matthew R. Neth, Ritu Sahni, Kathryn Thompson, Jeffrey Smith, Craig Newgard, Mohamud R. Daya, Joshua R. Lupton
The optimal initial vascular access strategy for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains unknown. Our objective was to evaluate the association between peripheral intravenous (PIV), tibial in...
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Effectiveness of a Novel Rapid Infusion Device and Clinician Education for Early Fluid Therapy by Emergency Medical Services in Sepsis Patients: A Pre-Post Observational Study Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Mehul D. Patel, Jefferson G. Williams, Michael W. Bachman, Julianne M. Cyr, José G. Cabañas, Nathaniel S. Miller, Lauren N. Gorstein, M. Abdul Hajjar, Henry Turcios, John-Thomas Malcolm, Jane H. Brice
Objective: Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians are tasked with early fluid resuscitation for patients with sepsis. Traditional methods for prehospital fluid delivery are limited in speed an...
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The impact of out-of-hospital time and prehospital intubation on return of spontaneous circulation following resuscitative thoracotomy in traumatic cardiac arrest Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Nada Radulovic, Morgan Hillier, Rosane Nisenbaum, Linda Turner, Brodie Nolan
Introduction: Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is a critical procedure performed in certain trauma patients in extremis, with extremely low survival rates. Currently, there is a paucity of data perta...
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The Menegazzi Scientific Sessions: Research Abstracts for the 2024 National Association of EMS Physicians Annual Meeting Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-27
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 28, No. sup1, 2023)
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Epidemiology of emergency medical services-attended out-of-hospital deliveries and complications in the United States Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Rebecca E. Cash, Anjali J. Kaimal, Margaret E. Samuels-Kalow, Krislyn M. Boggs, Maeve F. Swanton, Carlos A. Camargo Jr
Prehospital obstetric events, including out-of-hospital deliveries and their complications, are a rare but high-risk event encountered by emergency medical services (EMS). Understanding the epidemi...
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Prehospital Intervention Improves Outcomes for Patients Presenting in Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Response Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Louis B. Fornage, Christine O’Neil, Stephen R. Dowker, Eric R. Wanta, Ryan S. Lewis, Lawrence H. Brown
To compare outcomes of patients presenting to emergency medical services (EMS) with atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response (AF-RVR) who did and did not receive prehospital advanced lif...
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Cancer risks among emergency medical services workers in Ontario, Canada Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Jeavana Sritharan, Paul A Demers, Fanni R Eros, Colin Berriault, Mamadou Dakouo, Tracy L Kirkham
Emergency medical services workers, such as paramedics, provide important emergency care and may be exposed to potential carcinogens while working. Few studies have examined the risk of cancer amon...
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Wilderness Paramedic—A Practice Analysis Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Jeffrey T. Thurman, Seth C. Hawkins, David Fifer, John R. Clark, Benjamin Abo
Emergency medical services (EMS) has existed in its modern form for over 50 years. EMS has become a critical public safety net and access point to the larger health care system. Mature EMS systems ...
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Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Prehospital Encounters for Children with Asthma Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, Remle P. Crowe, Sriram Ramgopal
Asthma represents one of the most common medical conditions among children encountered by emergency medical services (EMS). While care disparities for children with asthma have been observed in oth...
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Is a positive prehospital FAST associated with severe bleeding? A multicenter retrospective study Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Grace Stralec, Camille Fontaine, Sarah Arras, Keryann Omnes, Hamza Ghomrani, Pablo Lecaros, Philippe LeConte, Frédéric Balen, Xavier Bobbia
Severe hemorrhage is the leading cause of early preventable death in severe trauma patients. Delayed diagnosis is a poor prognostic factor, and severe hemorrhage prediction is essential. The aim of...
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Elimination of Emergency Department Ambulance Divert during the COVID-19 Pandemic Was Not Associated with an Increase in the Average Number of Ambulance Arrivals Per Day Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Aaron M Burnett, Kari B Haley, Matthew F Milder, Bjorn K Peterson, Joey Duren, Andrew Stevens, Danielle M Hermes, Paul Nystrom, Joseph Lippert, Jennifer L Moberg, Kurt M Isenberger
During the COVID-19 pandemic, ambulance divert in our EMS system reached critical levels. We hypothesized that eliminating ambulance divert would not be associated with an increase in the average n...
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Posterior Circulation Stroke by Paramedics: A Systematic Review Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Brooke Hunt, Henry Zhao, Alexandra Cassidy, Sam Peart, Alexander Olaussen
ObjectiveThis systematic review aims to identify the diagnostic accuracy of posterior circulation stroke (PCS) by paramedics and the causes and duration of delay in its recognition. Methods: A syst...
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Improving Pediatric Procedural Skills for EMS Clinicians: A Longitudinal Simulation-Based Curriculum with Novel, Remote, First-Person-View Video-Based Outcome Measurement Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Sang Hoon Lee, Lauren C. Riney, Brant Merkt, Shawn D. McDonough, Jordan Baker, Stephanie Boyd, Yin Zhang, Gary L. Geis
Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians are expected to provide expert care to all patients, but face obstacles in maintaining skillsets required in the care of critically ill or injured childr...
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Transport rates and prehospital intervals for an EMS telemedicine intervention Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Renoj Varughese, Mitchell Cater-Cyker, Rupa Sabbineni, Sara Sigler, Sara Champoux, Mark Gamber, Susan J. Burnett, Gerad Troutman, Chan Chuang, Richard Sanders, John Doran, Nushin Nataneli, Derek R. Cooney, Joshua A. Bloomstone, Brian M. Clemency
Introduction: Emergency medical services (EMS) facilitated telemedicine encounters have been proposed as a strategy to reduce transports to hospitals for patients who access the 9-1-1 system. It is...
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Letter to the Editor: Vasopressors and Rearrest Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 James J. Menegazzi, Nichole Bosson, Marianne Gausche-Hill, Juan Carlos C. Montoy, David J G Dillon, J. Joelle Donofrio-Ödmann, David D. Salcido
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Just accepted, 2023)
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Do EMS Physicians Delay On-Scene Times for HEMS Crews? Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Krishna Patel, Kevin Young, Blake Miller, Timothy Lenz
Helicopter emergency services (HEMS) serve a crucial role in the triage and transport of critically ill patients. Rapid transport to definitive care has become the goal of all prehospital EMS as sh...
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The association of prehospital end-tidal carbon dioxide with survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Tanner Smida, James J. Menegazzi, Remle P. Crowe, David D. Salcido, James Bardes, Brent Myers
Objective End tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) is often used to assess ventilation and perfusion during cardiac arrest resuscitation. However, few data exist on the relationship between ETCO2 values an...
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Prehospital advanced airway management and ventilation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with prehospital return of spontaneous circulation: a prospective observational cohort study in Japan Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Ryuichi Nakayama, Naofumi Bunya, Shuji Uemura, Keigo Sawamoto, Eichi Narimatsu
BackgroundThe relationship among advanced airway management (AAM), ventilation, and oxygenation in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) who achieve prehospital return of spontaneous ...
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The effect of prehospital clinical trial-related procedures on scene interval, cognitive load, and error: a randomized simulation study Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Willem Stassen, Craig Wylie, Wesley Craig, Ismaeel Ebrahim, Scott H. Mahoney, Anthony E. Pusateri, Sanjeev Rambharose, Candice van Koningsbruggen, Richard B. Weiskopf, Lee A. Wallis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Globally, very few settings have undertaken prehospital randomized controlled trials. Given this lack of experience, there is a risk that such trials in these settings may result in protocol deviations, increased prehospital intervals, and increased cognitive load, leading to error. Ultimately, this may affect patient safety and mortality. The aim of this study was to assess
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Dynamic Course of Clinical State Transitions in Patients Undergoing Advanced Life Support after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Gianfranco Sanson, Vittorio Antonaglia, Giovanni Buttignon, Giuseppe Davide Caggegi, Carlo Pegani, Alberto Peratoner
Abstract Objectives Studies of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest generally document the presenting (pulseless electrical activity [PEA], ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia (VF/VT), asystole), and the final states (resuming stable spontaneous circulation [s-ROSC], being declared dead). Only a few studies described the transitions between clinical states during advanced life support (ALS). The aim of
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Correction Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-13
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 27, No. 7, 2023)
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Prehospital Workforce Changes: 10-Year Evaluation of National Registry Certifications Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Christopher B. Gage, Jonathan R. Powell, Rebecca E. Cash, Ashish R. Panchal
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2024)
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Frequency, Type, and Degree of Potential Harm of Adverse Safety Events among Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Encounters Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Mark X. Cicero, Janette Baird, Linda Brown, Marc Auerbach, Kathleen Adelgais
Only 5-10% of emergency medical services (EMS) patients are children, and most pediatric encounters are low-acuity. EMS chart review has been used to identify adverse safety events (ASEs) in high-a...
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FIRECARE: An Evidence-Based Prevention Program to Reduce Burnout among Prehospital Caregivers: Benefits of a Combined Mindfulness, Heart Coherence Training, and Positive Psychology Intervention Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Louise Giaume, Adrien Jimenez, Romain Kedzierewicz, Daniel Jost, Marie Pery, Julien Trouvé, Guillaume Burlaton, Stéphane Travers, Bertrand Prunet, Marion Trousselard
Burnout among emergency health care professionals is well-described, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prevention interventions, such as mindfulness, focus on the management of stress.To eva...
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Workplace Health Promotion Programs Available to Emergency Medical Services Clinicians in North Carolina Prehospital Emerg. Care (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Michael W. Supples, Joseph S. McIlwain, Anna C. Snavely, Stephen L. Powell, James E. Winslow, Jason P. Stopyra, Simon A. Mahler
Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians demonstrate a high prevalence of chronic medical conditions that place them at risk for early mortality. Workplace health promotion programs improve heal...