Exciting work on false electrical capture during transcutaneous pacing for unstable bradycardia. We found many patients transported by an EMS system in NY had false capture. Takeaway: new strategies (other than pulse palpation) needed to reliably verify capture. Joshua Kimbrell

Our analysis led by @RyanCoute showed drug overdose cardiac arrest was associated with a 2.5x greater lifetime productivity loss compared with non-OD cardiac arrest. NAEMSP Michael Christopher Kurz MD MS In Prehospital Emergency Care: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In new #TaylorSwift song #solonglondon, she sings “I stopped CPR, after all it’s no use”. While it may not work in relationships, bystander CPR dramatically improves survival after cardiac arrest! Learn today in <60 seconds: youtu.be/UxEfQJP3MQk?si…

New Lifepak 35 officially announced. Big departure from LP12/15 form-factor. Hope it’s durable! Thoughts?

We compared infant out-of-hospital cardiac arrest based on time-of-day and day-of-week. Weekdays associated with higher ROSC (day>night but dif not quite sig). Daytime had more males, cardiac etiologies, and unwitnessed arrests. @RyanCoute Joshua Kimbrell sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In Resuscitation Plus, we compared OHCA cases responded to by ground ambulance with cases responded to by HEMS in the US. OHCA treated by HEMS: more likely to be male, White, <60 yrs & <18 yrs, traumatic etiology, witnessed, and initially-shockable. AMPA UChicago EM

159 seconds. That's the average time savings attributable to lights and siren use by ambulance. Jeff Clement and I conducted a scoping review of 9 studies that directly compared drive time with lights/siren vs. no lights/siren across the same route. emerald.com/insight/conten…

We examined 844,021 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Here’s what wasn’t documented. Resuscitation Plus Joshua Kimbrell Sanjay Pujar MD Ethan Abbott, DO, MSCR, FACEP sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We looked at 6 years worth of ambulance transports from D1 college football games at UMN (go gophers!) — here’s what we found. Avg of 0.8 BLS and 0.3 ALS transports per game. Median age 22 yrs, alcohol involved in ~50%, and 32% with GCS<15. Jeff Clement Robert Ball 🇺🇸

We examined 1,136 prehospital cricothyrotomies in the United States and found the following: 1) 72.4% in male and 66.2% in ≤60 yrs 2) 47.2% during cardiac arrest 3) no disparities in success rates Out now in Chest: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Joshua Kimbrell Ethan Abbott, DO, MSCR, FACEP Jacob Stebel

We enjoyed your paper on infant cardiac arrest — please come to our fish farming conference…

We looked at four Friday the 13th's between 2022 and 2024 and found they were not associated with an increase in EMS calls or cardiac arrests – myth busted! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kk3%7E2dHVQ… Joshua Kimbrell Jacob Stebel Alex Zhou Jake Desman Ethan Abbott, DO, MSCR, FACEP

Across 1000+ patients with acute stroke at an urban comprehensive stroke center, prehospital notification (calling and activating a stroke code from the field) led to faster CTs and interventions. Joshua Kimbrell Jacob Stebel Brian Mac Grory Judah Kreinbrook tandfonline.com/eprint/Y7YFK5G…