Journal ArticleJ Burn Care Res · September 19, 2025
This article examines the medical response to 4 significant burn disasters in North Carolina: the Pope Air Force Base disaster, the ConAgra/Garner food plant fire, the Imperial Foods/Hamlet chicken plant fire, and the West Pharmaceutical/Kinston fire. Each ...
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Journal ArticlePrehosp Emerg Care · 2025
OBJECTIVES: Airway management is a fundamental skill that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians must be prepared to perform on patients of any age. We performed one of the first epidemiological studies of out-of-hospital pediatric airway management u ...
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Journal ArticleMedEdPORTAL · 2025
INTRODUCTION: Existing mass casualty incident (MCI) simulations rely on high-fidelity patient simulators, which are cost-prohibitive and often exclude pediatric patients. To address the need for deployable, low-fidelity pediatric MCI simulations, we develo ...
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Journal ArticlePrehospital emergency care · January 2024
IntroductionThe Assessment of Blood Consumption (ABC) score is a previously validated scoring system designed to predict which severely injured trauma patients will require massive transfusion. When the ABC score is used in the prehospital setting ...
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Journal ArticleResuscitation · April 2022
OBJECTIVE: Airway management is an important priority in the care of critically ill children. We sought to provide updated estimates of the epidemiology of pediatric out-of-hospital airway management and ventilation interventions in the United States. METH ...
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Journal ArticleProgress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action · June 2013
Background: The impact of falls in older adults presents a significant public health burden. Fall risk is not well-described in Latino populations nor have fall prevention programs considered the needs of this population. Objectives: ...
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