EMS World

Literature Review: Perishock Pauses and Survival to Discharge

Pauses between compressions and defibrillation aren't doing your SCA patients any good

Article • July 18th, 2011

Literature Review: Overdose Reversal and Refusal of Transport

Wampler DA, Molina DK, McManus J, et al. No deaths associated with patient refusal of transport after naloxone-reversed opioid overdose. Prehosp Emerg Care 15(3): 320–4, Jul–Sep 2011. Abstract Naloxone is widely used in the treatment and...

Article • June 20th, 2011

Good Help Is Hard to Find: The EMS Workforce Agenda for the Future

The Emergency Medical Services Workforce Agenda for the Future imagines a future "in which all EMS systems have a sufficient number of well educated, adequately prepared, and appropriately credentialed EMS workers who are valued, well compensated...

Article • May 31st, 2011

Literature Review: Helicopter Transport and Mortality

There may be benefits to air medical response, but weigh them against your system's circumstances

Article • May 20th, 2011

Focus on Respiration

The latest research on evolving concepts in respiratory support

Article • May 1st, 2011

Focus on Capnography

Roundup of research on end-tidal CO2 monitoring

Article • May 1st, 2011

Focus on the Literature

At each year's EMS State of the Sciences Conference, Nashville EMS medical director Corey Slovis, MD, presents his five most important EMS studies of the preceding year.

Article • May 1st, 2011

Literature Review: Second IV Line for Trauma Patients

If fluid is good, more fluid is better, right? Not so fast, says a new study.

Article • April 22nd, 2011

Research Studies: My Top Five

Take a look back at 2010 professional literature to see how it can improve patient care, EMS systems and prehospital medicine.

Article • March 31st, 2011

Literature Review: Real-time CPR Feedback and Return of Spontaneous Circulation

ROSC rates do not improve with CPR feedback

Article • March 22nd, 2011

Literature Review: Prehospital IV Fluid for Severe Sepsis Patients

In hospitals, aggressive early fluid administration improves sepsis patients' outcomes. Should we give fluids earlier?