Emergency Medical Services

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  • "Hot" unstable angina--is it worse than subacute unstable angina? Results from the GUARANTEE Registry. 
  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • 2004 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: implications for emergency department practice. 
  • 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates. 
  • A Machine Learning Methodology for Identification and Triage of Heart Failure Exacerbations. 
  • A comparison of paramedic versus basic emergency medical care of patients at high and low risk during acute myocardial infarction. 
  • A comparison of pediatric airway management techniques during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using the CARES database. 
  • A geographic information system analysis of the impact of a statewide acute stroke emergency medical services routing protocol on community hospital bypass. 
  • A link to improve stroke patient care: a successful linkage between a statewide emergency medical services data system and a stroke registry. 
  • A meta-analysis and systematic review of computed tomography angiography as a diagnostic triage tool for patients with chest pain presenting to the emergency department. 
  • A secondary analysis to inform a clinical decision rule for predicting skull fracture and intracranial injury in children under age 2. 
  • A summative evaluation of an EMS partnership aimed at reducing ED length of stay. 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction--executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to revise the 1999 guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction). 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction). 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction). 
  • Aborted infarction: the ultimate myocardial salvage. 
  • Accelerating ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care: emergency medical services take center stage. 
  • Access to care solutions in healthcare for obstetric care in Africa: A systematic review. 
  • Access to emergency care services: a transversal ecological study about Brazilian emergency health care network. 
  • Acute Treatment Patterns for Lower Extremity Trauma in the United States: Flaps versus Amputation. 
  • Addressing geographic access barriers to emergency care services: a national ecologic study of hospitals in Brazil. 
  • Among emergency physicians, use of the term "Sickler" is associated with negative attitudes toward people with sickle cell disease. 
  • An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial examining prehospital procedures in penetrating trauma patients. 
  • An algorithm for transition of care in the emergency department. 
  • An analysis of emergency care delays experienced by traumatic brain injury patients presenting to a regional referral hospital in a low-income country. 
  • An analysis of police transport in an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial examining prehospital procedures in penetrating trauma patients. 
  • An evaluation of the professional, social and demographic profile and quality of life of physicians working at the Prehospital Emergency Medical System (SAMU) in Brazil. 
  • An inventory of VHA emergency departments' resources and processes for caring for women. 
  • Analysis of the equity of emergency medical services: a cross-sectional survey in Chongqing city. 
  • Another hazard of hypertonic dextrose. 
  • Antihypertensives are administered selectively in emergency department patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Applications of justification and optimization in medical imaging: examples of clinical guidance for computed tomography use in emergency medicine. 
  • Are acute stroke-ready hospitals ready? 
  • Arrival by ambulance in acute heart failure: insights into the mode of presentation from Acute Studies of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure (ASCEND-HF). 
  • Assessment of out-of-hospital resuscitation. 
  • Association Between Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Pre-Activation and Reperfusion Timing Metrics and Outcomes in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report From the ACTION Registry. 
  • Association Between Driving Distance From Nearest Fire Station and  Survival of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Association between hospital post-resuscitative performance and clinical outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Association of Bystander and First-Responder Efforts and Outcomes According to Sex: Results From the North Carolina HeartRescue Statewide Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Association of Bystander and First-Responder Intervention With Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in North Carolina, 2010-2013. 
  • Association of MDMA/ecstasy and other substance use with self-reported sexually transmitted diseases among college-aged adults: a national study. 
  • Association of Public Health Initiatives With Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest at Home and in Public Locations. 
  • Association of Rapid Care Process Implementation on Reperfusion Times Across Multiple ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Networks. 
  • Association of guideline publication and delays to treatment in pediatric status epilepticus. 
  • Asthma exacerbation after administration of nicotine nasal spray for smoking cessation. 
  • Availability of Automated External Defibrillators in Public High Schools. 
  • Basic Airway Management for the Professional Nurse. 
  • Basic emergency medical care of patients with acute myocardial infarction: initial prehospital characteristics and in-hospital complications. 
  • Bronchiolitis management preferences and the influence of pulse oximetry and respiratory rate on the decision to admit. 
  • Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcome Reports: Update of the Utstein Resuscitation Registry Template for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Consensus Report From a Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (American Heart Association, European Resuscitation Council, Australian and New Zealand Council on Resuscitation, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa, Resuscitation Council of Asia). 
  • Care and outcomes of urban and non-urban out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients during the HeartRescue Project in Washington state and North Carolina. 
  • Care transitions and social needs: A Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Network scoping review and consensus statement. 
  • Caring for Children With Medical Complexity With the Emergency Information Form. 
  • Catheterization Laboratory Activation Time in Patients Transferred With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the Mission: Lifeline STEMI Accelerator-2 Project. 
  • Characteristics of Children Who Undergo Intraosseous Needle Placement. 
  • Classification and initial management of patients with unstable pelvic ring injuries. 
  • Clinical identifiers for detecting underlying closed cervical fractures. 
  • Community consultation for prehospital research: experiences of study coordinators and principal investigators. 
  • Community socioeconomic status and prehospital times in acute stroke and transient ischemic attack: do poorer patients have longer delays from 911 call to the emergency department? 
  • Community-based delivery of maternal care in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma: perspectives from lay maternal health workers. 
  • Comparison of Delay Times from Symptom Onset to Medical Contact in Blacks Versus Whites With Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Comparison of team-focused CPR vs standard CPR in resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results from a statewide quality improvement initiative. 
  • Comparison of the five-electrode-derived EASI electrocardiogram to the Mason Likar electrocardiogram in the prehospital setting. 
  • Comprehending the lack of access to maternal and neonatal emergency care: Designing solutions based on a space-time approach. 
  • Comprehensive electrocardiogram-to-device time for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A report from the American Heart Association mission: Lifeline program. 
  • Conducting an economic analysis to assess the electrocardiogram's value. 
  • Continuous peripheral nerve block for battlefield anesthesia and evacuation. 
  • Coordination Program Reduced Acute Care Use And Increased Primary Care Visits Among Frequent Emergency Care Users. 
  • Critical pathways for patients with acute chest pain at low risk. 
  • Definitive airway management after prehospital supraglottic rescue airway in pediatric trauma. 
  • Dental Emergency Practice Characteristics Among North Carolina Pediatric and General Dentists. 
  • Depression and Health Care Utilization at End of Life Among Older Adults With Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. 
  • Designing a Better Mousetrap: Reflections on the November 28, 2017, US Food and Drug Administration Meeting on Next-Generation "High-Sensitivity" Cardiac Troponin Assays to Diagnose Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Developing a framework for conducting economic evaluations of community-based health information technology interventions. 
  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: evaluation and outcomes. 
  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: gaps, barriers, and implications. 
  • Diagnosis of stroke by emergency medical dispatchers and its impact on the prehospital care of patients. 
  • Diagnostic evaluation of the MRP-8/14 for the emergency assessment of chest pain. 
  • Differences in care-seeking behavior for acute chest pain in the United States and Japan. 
  • Direct Transport to a Percutaneous Cardiac Intervention Center and Outcomes in Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the United States Emergency Medical Services Workforce: A Scoping Review. 
  • Do the investigative sites that take part in a positive clinical trial translate that evidence into practice? 
  • Early use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors in the ED treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: a local quality improvement initiative. 
  • Education, Implementation, and Teams: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations. 
  • Effect of Prehospital Crushed Prasugrel Tablets in Patients With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Planned for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Randomized COMPARE CRUSH Trial. 
  • Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. 
  • Effect of a Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effectiveness of Acute Care Remote Triage Systems: a Systematic Review. 
  • Efficacy and safety of tenecteplase in combination with the low-molecular-weight heparin enoxaparin or unfractionated heparin in the prehospital setting: the Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of a New Thrombolytic Regimen (ASSENT)-3 PLUS randomized trial in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Emergency Care Gap in Brazil: Geographical Accessibility as a Proxy of Response Capacity to Tackle COVID-19. 
  • Emergency department adherence to American Heart Association guidelines for blood pressure management in acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Emergency department analgesia without narcotics for adults with acute sickle cell pain crisis: case reports and review of crisis management. 
  • Emergency department bypass for ST-Segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients identified with a prehospital electrocardiogram: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program. 
  • Emergency department imaging: current practice. 
  • Emergency medical service hospital prenotification is associated with improved evaluation and treatment of acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Emergency medical services system utilization over the last 10 years: what predicts transport of children? 
  • Emergency medical services use and its association with acute ischaemic stroke evaluation and treatment in Singapore. 
  • Emergency medical services use by stroke patients: a population-based study. 
  • Emergency medical services-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Global variation and opportunities for future investigation. 
  • Emergency obstetrics knowledge and practical skills retention among medical students in Rwanda following a short training course. 
  • Emergency unit capacity in Northern Tanzania: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Enhancing the efficacy of delivering reperfusion therapy: a European and North American experience with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction networks. 
  • Environmental Hyperthermia in Prehospital Patients with Major Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Epidemiology of out-of-hospital pediatric airway management in the 2019 national emergency medical services information system data set. 
  • Evaluating an emergency medical services-initiated nontransport system. 
  • Evaluating emergency care research networks: what are the right metrics? 
  • Evaluation of a saliva alcohol test stick as a therapeutic adjunct in an alcoholism treatment program. 
  • Evaluation of a thoracic ultrasound training module for the detection of pneumothorax and pulmonary edema by prehospital physician care providers. 
  • Evaluation of telephone-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation recommendations for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Expectations and outcomes in geriatric patients with do-not-resuscitate orders undergoing emergency surgical management of bowel obstruction. 
  • Factors improving survival in multisystem trauma patients. 
  • Field-Triage, Hospital-Triage and Triage-Assessment: A Literature Review of the Current Phases of Adult Trauma Triage. 
  • Food and Drug Administration and Institutional Review Board Approval of a Novel Prehospital Informed Consent Process for Emergency Research. 
  • Frequency and Prognostic Significance of Clinical Fluctuations Before Hospital Arrival in Stroke. 
  • Frequency and consequences of recording an electrocardiogram >10 minutes after arrival in an emergency room in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (from the CRUSADE Initiative). 
  • Frequency of Urgent or Emergent Vitreoretinal Surgical Procedures in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Frequency of nonsystem delays in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention and implications for door-to-balloon time reporting (from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program). 
  • Gaps in Drug Dosing for Obese Children: A Systematic Review of Commonly Prescribed Emergency Care Medications. 
  • General otolaryngology and the subspecialties: finding the balance. 
  • Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2019. 
  • Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2020. 
  • Health care utilization in HIV-infected patients: assessing the burden of hepatitis C virus coinfection. 
  • Health literacy interventions and outcomes: an updated systematic review. 
  • Home use of automated external defibrillators for sudden cardiac arrest. 
  • Hospital arrival time and intravenous t-PA use in US Academic Medical Centers, 2001-2004. 
  • Hospital based emergency department visits attributed to child physical abuse in United States: predictors of in-hospital mortality. 
  • How much do we gain by reducing time to reperfusion therapy? 
  • I'm clear, you're clear, we're all clear: improving consultation communication skills in undergraduate medical education. 
  • Ice storm-related carbon monoxide poisonings in North Carolina: a reminder. 
  • Immediate removal of extractor is recommended. 
  • Impact of High-Deductible Health Plans on Emergency Department Patients With Nonspecific Chest Pain and Their Subsequent Care. 
  • Impact of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation on performance of termination of resuscitation criteria. 
  • Impact of physician and patient gender on pain management in the emergency department--a multicenter study. 
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Tactical Combat Casualty Care for Army Aviators. 
  • Implementation and randomized controlled trial evaluation of universal postnatal nurse home visiting. 
  • Implementation of Best Practices-Developing and Optimizing Regional Systems of Stroke Care: Design and Methodology. 
  • Implementation of Regional ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Systems of Care: Successes and Challenges. 
  • Implementation of a National 5-Year Plan for Prehospital Emergency Care in Singapore and Impact on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes From 2011 to 2016. 
  • Implementation of a Regional Network for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Care and 30-Day Mortality in a Low- to Middle-Income City in Brazil: Findings From Salvador's STEMI Registry (RESISST). 
  • Implementation strategies for improving survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States: consensus recommendations from the 2009 American Heart Association Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit. 
  • Improving Care of STEMI in the United States 2008 to 2012. 
  • Improving Emergency Cricothyroidotomies: Simulation-Based Training for Critical Care Providers. 
  • Improving Youth Sports Safety: Implementing an Emergency Action Plan for Sudden Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Improving door-to-needle times in acute ischemic stroke: the design and rationale for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Target: Stroke initiative. 
  • In-hospital cardiac arrest: Complex clinical challenges in need of unique solutions. 
  • Incidence and lifetime costs of injuries in the United States. 
  • Incidence, characteristics and complications of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation initiated in patients not in cardiac arrest. 
  • Incremental benefit of 80-lead electrocardiogram body surface mapping over the 12-lead electrocardiogram in the detection of acute coronary syndromes in patients without ST-elevation myocardial infarction: Results from the Optimal Cardiovascular Diagnostic Evaluation Enabling Faster Treatment of Myocardial Infarction (OCCULT MI) trial. 
  • Infection prevention and control training and capacity building during the Ebola epidemic in Guinea. 
  • Influence of stroke subtype on quality of care in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program. 
  • Insulin pump therapy in toddlers and preschool children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Interventional strategies associated with improvements in survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Singapore over 10 years. 
  • Intranasal Ketamine as an Adjunct to Fentanyl for the Prehospital Treatment of Acute Traumatic Pain: Design and Rationale of a Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Is this patient having a stroke? 
  • It's a matter of time: contemporary pre-hospital management of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Ketamine in the Prehospital Environment: A National Survey of Paramedics in the United States. 
  • Lack of impact of paramedic training and use of the cincinnati prehospital stroke scale on stroke patient identification and on-scene time. 
  • Letter: Art of medicine for aged doctors. 
  • Life-sustaining therapy. A model for appropriate use. 
  • Long-term outcomes among injured older adults transported by emergency medical services. 
  • Management of Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Mechanical Ventilation of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients in the Prehospital Setting. 
  • Medical transport-associated infection: Review and commentary making a case for its legitimacy. 
  • Medicare claims indicators of healthcare utilization differences after hospitalization for ischemic stroke: Race, gender, and caregiving effects. 
  • Medicine. Stroke--tPA and the clinic. 
  • Mode of hospital presentation in patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction: implications for strategic management. 
  • Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study. 
  • Moving care forward: prehospital emergency cardiac systems. 
  • Moving proximally through the intersection between the process and the content of care in ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Multistate 5-Year Initiative to Improve Care for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Primary Results From the HeartRescue Project. 
  • Multistate implementation of guideline-based cardiac resuscitation systems of care: description of the HeartRescue project. 
  • Myocardial infarction--Case studies of ethics in the consent situation. 
  • NIH Roundtable on Opportunities to Advance Research on Neurologic and Psychiatric Emergencies. 
  • National study of health insurance type and reasons for emergency department use. 
  • Nationwide trends in residential and non-residential out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and differences in bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 
  • North Carolina stroke prevention and treatment facilities survey: rtPA therapy for acute stroke. 
  • Novel electrocardiogram configurations and transmission procedures in the prehospital setting: effect on ischemia and arrhythmia determination. 
  • Operating Room Crisis Checklists and Emergency Manuals. 
  • Opioid-Associated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Distinctive Clinical Features and Implications for Health Care and Public Responses: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Systems of Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Out-of-hospital management of cardiac arrest by basic emergency medical technicians. 
  • Out-of-hospital stroke screen accuracy in a state with an emergency medical services protocol for routing patients to acute stroke centers. 
  • Outcomes research and emergency medical services for children: domains, challenges, and opportunities. 
  • Overcoming barriers to developing seamless ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care systems in the United States: recommendations from a comprehensive Prehospital 12-lead Electrocardiogram Working Group. 
  • PTSD Symptoms and Acute Pain in the Emergency Department: The Roles of Vulnerability and Resilience Factors Among Low-income, Inner-city Women. 
  • Pain in the emergency department: results of the pain and emergency medicine initiative (PEMI) multicenter study. 
  • Paramedic transtelephonic communication to cardiologist of clinical and electrocardiographic assessment for rapid reperfusion of ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Part 6: Alternative Techniques and Ancillary Devices for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. 
  • Patient comprehension of emergency department care and instructions: are patients aware of when they do not understand? 
  • Patterns of Emergency Care for Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome Among Patients with Chest Pain or Shortness of Breath at a Tanzanian Referral Hospital. 
  • Patterns of emergency medical services use and its association with timely stroke treatment: findings from Get With the Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Pediatric trauma. Anesthesia management. 
  • Performance measures to promote quality improvement in sudden cardiac arrest prevention and treatment. 
  • Perioperative management of patients receiving new oral anticoagulants: an international survey. 
  • Physicians' experiences with prehospital do-not-resuscitate orders in North Carolina. 
  • Planning recommendations for international emergency medicine and out-of-hospital care system development. 
  • Practical implementation of the guidelines for unstable angina/non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the emergency department: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology (Subcommittee on Acute Cardiac Care), Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, and Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group, in Collaboration With the Society of Chest Pain Centers. 
  • Pre-Hospital Antiplatelet Therapy for STEMI Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: What We Know and What Lies Ahead. 
  • Pre-hospital synthesized 12-lead ECG ischemia monitoring with trans-telephonic transmission in acute coronary syndromes: pilot study results of the ST SMART trial. 
  • Pre-hospital treatment with crushed versus integral tablets of prasugrel in patients presenting with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction-1-year follow-up results of the COMPARE CRUSH trial. 
  • Predictors of reperfusion delay in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction self-transported to the hospital (from the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline Program). 
  • Prehospital cardiac arrest in a paramedic first-responder system using the Utstein style. 
  • Prehospital electrocardiograms (ECGs) do not improve the process of emergency department care in hospitals with higher usage of ECGs in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients. 
  • Prehospital management of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a time for reappraisal in North America. 
  • Prehospital notification by emergency medical services reduces delays in stroke evaluation: findings from the North Carolina stroke care collaborative. 
  • Prehospital sepsis care: Understanding provider knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes. 
  • Prehospital spinal immobilization and the backboard quality assessment study. 
  • Prehospital system delay in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care: a novel linkage of emergency medicine services and in hospital registry data. 
  • Prehospital tourniquet use in Operation Iraqi Freedom: effect on hemorrhage control and outcomes. 
  • Prehospitalization antiplatelet therapy and outcomes after saphenous vein graft intervention. 
  • Prevalence of prehospital hypoxemia and oxygen use in trauma patients. 
  • Prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation and outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Promoting an Emergency Action Plan for Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Youth Sports During a Pandemic. 
  • Prothrombin Complex Concentrates for Perioperative Vitamin K Antagonist and Non-vitamin K Anticoagulant Reversal. 
  • Providing Rapid Out of Hospital Acute Cardiovascular Treatment 3 (PROACT-3). 
  • Providing Rapid Out of Hospital Acute Cardiovascular Treatment 4 (PROACT-4). 
  • Public knowledge of automatic external defibrillators in a large U.S. urban community. 
  • Pushing the Envelope on STEMI Response. 
  • Qualitative evaluation of trauma delays in road traffic injury patients in Maringá, Brazil. 
  • Quality of Acute Care for Patients With Urinary Stones in the United States. 
  • Race Differences in Interventions and Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in North Carolina, 2010 to 2014. 
  • Racial disparities in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest interventions and survival in the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial. 
  • Racial-ethnic disparities in acute blood pressure after intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences in Emergency Medical Services Transport Among Hospitalized US Stroke Patients: Analysis of the National Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry. 
  • Radiation disasters: role of the BMT team. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of Family Connects: Effects on child emergency medical care from birth to 24 months. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of universal postnatal nurse home visiting: impact on emergency care. 
  • Rapid Response Events in Hospitalized Patients: Patient Symptoms and Clinician Communication. 
  • Rates of cardiac catheterization cancelation for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after activation by emergency medical services or emergency physicians: results from the North Carolina Catheterization Laboratory Activation Registry. 
  • Rationale for withholding professional resuscitation in emergency medical system-attended out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Recommendations for the establishment of stroke systems of care: recommendations from the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems. 
  • Regional Systems of Care Demonstration Project: American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator. 
  • Regional systems of care demonstration project: Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator: design and methodology. 
  • Relationship between community hospital versus pre-hospital location of randomisation and clinical outcomes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: insights from the Stream study. 
  • Reliability of Glasgow Coma Score in pediatric trauma patients. 
  • Reperfusion in waiting: what queue should we join? 
  • Reperfusion of acute myocardial infarction in North Carolina emergency departments (RACE): study design. 
  • Reperfusion strategies in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a comprehensive review of contemporary management options. 
  • Research priorities for elder abuse screening and intervention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network scoping review and consensus statement. 
  • Response to letter regarding article, "Emergency department bypass for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients identified with a prehospital electrocardiogram: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program". 
  • Retrospective chart review and survey to identify adverse safety events in the emergency medical services care of children with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the USA: a study protocol. 
  • Review of the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia: practice improvement. 
  • Risk stratification in acute heart failure: rationale and design of the STRATIFY and DECIDE studies. 
  • ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction treatment and the seductive lure of observational analyses. 
  • Shame and Guilt in EMS: A Qualitative Analysis of Culture and Attitudes in Prehospital Emergency Care. 
  • Sickle cell disease complications: Prevalence and resource utilization. 
  • Snakebite envenoming in Brazilian children: clinical aspects, management and outcomes. 
  • Special Operations Force Risk Reduction: Integration of Expeditionary Surgical and Resuscitation Teams. 
  • Spontaneous hemoperitoneum. 
  • Strategies to improve survival outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) given a fixed budget: A simulation study. 
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of the accuracy of MRI to diagnose appendicitis in the general population. 
  • Systems of care for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: a report From the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline. 
  • Taking the Reins on Systems of Care for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients: A Report From the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program. 
  • The 2004 ACC/AHA Guidelines: a perspective and adaptation for Canada by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Working Group. 
  • The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading scale for 16 emergency general surgery conditions: Disease-specific criteria characterizing anatomic severity grading. 
  • The Challenge of Emergency Abortion Care Following the Dobbs Ruling. 
  • The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network approach: a protocol to advance stakeholder consensus and research priorities in geriatrics and dementia care in the emergency department. 
  • The MOM Project: delivering maternal health services among internally displaced populations in eastern Burma. 
  • The Role of Emergency Medical Services in the Opioid Epidemic. 
  • The association of indoor heat exposure with diabetes and respiratory 9-1-1 calls through emergency medical dispatch and services documentation. 
  • The association of race with CPR quality following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • The impact of a statewide pre-hospital STEMI strategy to bypass hospitals without percutaneous coronary intervention capability on treatment times. 
  • The impact of emergency department structure and care processes in delivering care for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • The incidence of seizures in patients undergoing therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. 
  • The knowledge and perceptions of medical personnel relating to outcome after cardiac arrest. 
  • The left bundle-branch block puzzle in the 2013 ST-elevation myocardial infarction guideline: from falsely declaring emergency to denying reperfusion in a high-risk population. Are the Sgarbossa Criteria ready for prime time? 
  • The medical costs of gunshot injuries in the United States. 
  • The need for regional integrated care for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • The organization, function, and outcomes of ST-elevation myocardial infarction networks worldwide: current state, unmet needs and future directions. 
  • The patient centered medical home. A systematic review. 
  • The return of tourniquets. Original research evaluates the effectiveness of prehospital tourniquets for civilian penetrating extremity injuries. 
  • The role of bystanders, first responders, and emergency medical service providers in timely defibrillation and related outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results from a statewide registry. 
  • The role of fibrinolytics in the prehospital treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). 
  • The status of air medical quality assurance. 
  • Therapeutic Hypothermia for Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in North Carolina. 
  • Time to presentation with acute myocardial infarction in the elderly: associations with race, sex, and socioeconomic characteristics. 
  • Time to treatment and the impact of a physician on prehospital management of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction: insights from the ASSENT-3 PLUS trial. 
  • Timeliness of tissue-type plasminogen activator therapy in acute ischemic stroke: patient characteristics, hospital factors, and outcomes associated with door-to-needle times within 60 minutes. 
  • Times from symptom onset to hospital arrival in the Get with the Guidelines--Stroke Program 2002 to 2009: temporal trends and implications. 
  • Timing of Advanced Airway Placement after Witnessed Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Trainee Participation in Emergency Surgery: What Are the Consequences? 
  • Trainee participation is associated with adverse outcomes in emergency general surgery: an analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Transfusion of Uncrossmatched Group O Erythrocyte-containing Products Does Not Interfere with Most ABO Typings. 
  • Treat-and-Release Emergency Department Utilization by Patients With Gynecologic Cancers. 
  • Trends in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006. 
  • Triage and emergency evacuation of recreational divers: a case series analysis. 
  • Triage to Observation: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Chest Pain Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department. 
  • Twelve-year follow-up of American women's awareness of cardiovascular disease risk and barriers to heart health. 
  • Uncrossmatched blood transfusions for trauma patients in the emergency department: incidence, outcomes and recommendations. 
  • Unified medical language system coverage of emergency-medicine chief complaints. 
  • Unmeasured Interface in Emergency Cardiovascular Care: How Do Dispatch-Assisted Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Bystander Training Interact? 
  • Use of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to improve guideline adherence for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. 
  • Use of pulse co-oximetry as a screening and monitoring tool in mass carbon monoxide poisoning. 
  • Usefulness of combining necrosis and platelet markers in triaging patients presenting with chest pain to the emergency department. 
  • Utilization and impact of pre-hospital electrocardiograms for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: data from the NCDR (National Cardiovascular Data Registry) ACTION (Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network) Registry. 
  • Utilization of medical treatments and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive adults with histories of childhood sexual abuse. 
  • Variation in community and ambulance care processes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
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  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Ginsberg, Zachary, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine
  • Godfrey, Andrew W, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine
  • Levy, Jerrold Henry, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine