Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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There is currently no consolidated list of existing simulation fellowship programs in emergency medicine (EM). In addition, there are no universally accepted or expected standards for core curricular content. The objective of this project is to develop consensus-based core content for EM simulation fellowships to help frame the critical components of such training programs. ⋯ The proposed consensus content will provide current and future fellowships a foundation on which to build their own specific and detailed fellowship curricula. Such standardization will ultimately increase the transparency of training programs for future trainees and potential employers.
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To test whether primary emergency medical services (EMS) transport to hospitals with certain characteristics (24/7 percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI] availability, trauma center status, large [>24 bed] intensive care unit [ICU]) versus hospitals without those characteristics is associated with improved hospital survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). ⋯ After adjusting for patient demographic data, we found no significant independent association between receiving hospital characteristics and survival to discharge among OHCA patients transported after ROSC by a single EMS agency.