Prehospital Buprenorphine Is a Powerful Tool in the Opioid-Crisis Fight
Drug overdoses are a leading cause of accidental death in the United States, representing a persistent and…
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Prehospital Buprenorphine Is a Powerful Tool in the Opioid-Crisis Fight
Drug overdoses are a leading cause of accidental death in the United States, representing a persistent and... -
Emergency Medicine and EMS Have Grown in Parallel Tracks for 50 Years
Jon Krohmer, MD, FACEP, who says he has “the EMS blood type,” practically had a front row... -
An Open Letter from ACEP’s Tactical and Law Enforcement Medicine Section
I watched the traffic stop video of Tyre Nichols with an all-too-familiar mix of revulsion, sadness, and...
Emergency Medicine and EMS Have Grown in Parallel Tracks for 50 Years
Jon Krohmer, MD, FACEP, who says he has “the EMS blood type,” practically had a front row…
An Open Letter from ACEP’s Tactical and Law Enforcement Medicine Section
I watched the traffic stop video of Tyre Nichols with an all-too-familiar mix of revulsion, sadness, and…
EMS and the ED: What Should the Relationship Look Like Going Forward?
Figure 1: Trends in EMS Arrival and Admissions Versus Walk-in ED Patients COVID-19 won’t go away. As…
To Combat Potential Implicit Bias in EMS, Diversify the Workforce
Unconscious bias, the subject Uché Blackstock, MD, wrote a November 2019 column on in ACEP Now, can…
Is There Systemic Racism in EMS?
Editor’s Note: Read Dr. Cedric Dark’s commentary on this EMRA + PolicyRx Health Policy Journal Club article….
ACEP, NAEMT Partner to Celebrate EMS Week
The 45th National EMS Week is May 19-25, 2019, bringing together local communities and medical personnel to…
New Out-Of-Hospital Care Models Could Affect Your Emergency Dept
“Whoop, whoop, whoop!” The EMS radio alerts the ED staff to an incoming patient. Minutes later arrives…
Survival After Cardiac Arrest May Depend on Which EMS Agency Shows Up
Whether an individual survives a cardiac arrest may depend, at least in part, on which emergency medical…
Time-to-Hospital May Be Key to Disparate Results in Studies on Pre-Hospital Plasma Administration
Two large studies have come to conflicting conclusions about whether emergency medical technicians should give plasma to…