EMS Clinicians DO diagnose! Saying they don't is unhelpful. - Maia Dorsett at NYS #VitalSigns conference

Some key lessons presented by Brooke Burton: No one makes real change with an e-mail or memo. The most successful teams engaged the frontline clinicians.

2023 International Consensus on CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations: Summary From the BLS, ALS, PLS, NLS, EIT, and FA Task Forces ILCOR 🔗 resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-…

Dr. Palatinus shares the Salt Lake City Fire Department experience deploying IM epinephrine in OHCA. #ReSS23 Decreased time to first Epi by 3 minutes, saw no change in hospital admission, but an increase in survival to discharge / good neuro outcomes.

Dr. Gerad Troutman, board Medical Director for the American Ambulance Association, recommends that all #EMS providers keep their vaccinations up-to-date! #EMSVax Gerad Troutman, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAEMS #vaccines Global Medical Response American Medical Response

Harm Reduction is to EMS as fire prevention is to the fire service. We’re some of the only people in medicine that get 1-on-1 time with patients even after we’re done with what we need to do. That last bit of time on the ride in is valuable, don’t let it go to waste.

Thank you EMS1 for featuring our findings on the use of carotid ultrasound during CPR to enhance cardiac arrest response. ems1.com/ems-products/m…

New release from The Pediatric EMS Podcast focused on prehospital management for pediatric drowning. Listen, learn, and share JEMS - EMS EMS World CHaMP ... the PECARN Peds EMS Research Node EMSC Innovation & Improvement Center sites.libsyn.com/414020/a-silen…

Debating rocuronium vs. succinylcholine for RSI? New research from #UWashEMS shows that within Seattle Fire Dept. they have similar Cormack-Lehane grades, first-pass success, & rates of peri-intubation hypoxemia. Full Paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another study on pressors post-arrest? Researchers studied 221 admitted OHCA patients with Epi vs Norepi infusions with 6 hours of arrest. No diff in arrhythmias Epi more likely to die (90.0% vs 54.3%) Epi more likely to re-arrest (55.7% vs 14.6%) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm getting excited for #NAEMSP2024. Always great catching up with #EMSDoc colleagues and friends and hearing the latest science and updated practice standards. Even more excited to be giving a talk this year with my bro Brian Miller, MD!

Our EBG for Prehospital Airway Management is out. Thanks to an amazing group of authors for getting this one across the line! doi.org/10.1080/109031…

Wonderful tweetorial…

“Does a Cardiologist work in an internal medicine clinic? Then why does an EMS physician feel the need to continue working in an ED? If EMS is your subspecialty, then work in your subspecialty.” - E. Reed Smith #NAEMSP2024

Stay tuned for more from Joshua Kimbrell and I on this hot topic. So far it's looking like TCP attempts prehospitally may not reliably result in capture. Exciting as this AHA class IIb treatment may result in more harm than good if it leads to unrecognized failure!

🚑 Rural Cardiac Arrest Care in Texas: Despite higher bystander CPR rates, outcomes are worse in rural areas. The study delves into the factors affecting care and survival. 🏥 Read the findings here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Reminder that applications are now open for our 2024 Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship! We will select two Externs (fourth year medical students or resident physicians) and give them an extraordinary field medicine training experience in September 2024. If this sounds like

PREACH Jimmy! There are a select few conditions where patients benefit from rapid transport--#EMS is highly capable of stabilizing and treating on scene... Slow Down and Buckle Up, my friends!

The power to SAVE A LIFE is in YOUR HANDS! A person is 2-3x more likely to survive a cardiac arrest if a bystander gives them Hands-Only CPR. It’s truly miraculous! Don’t know how & want to learn? Let #PBCFR teach you, watch this! Your Safety. Our Priority.

PAPER OF THE MONTH Check out the Editors' pick for August 2024 in Resuscitation. 🔗 resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-… #Resuscitation