Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors
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The Prehospital Care Research Forum sponsors both oral and poster presentations of emergency medical services (EMS) research in conjunction with JEMS Corporation's annual EMS Today Conference. Attendance at the research presentations, historically, has been poor. This descriptive study was designed to measure the readability of the Prehospital Care Research Forum abstracts in order to determine whether the abstracts are difficult to read, and thus are a deterrent to attendance at the oral and poster research presentations. ⋯ The abstracts for the Prehospital Care Research Forum presentations are not overly difficult to read. It is unlikely that readability of the abstracts is a factor in the interest, or lack of interest, in the proceedings of the Prehospital Care Research Forum.
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This retrospective study was designed to determine the choice of airway devices used for nontraumatic, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients and to evaluate the success and failure of insertion and airway control/ventilation by three airway adjuncts, the Combitube, the esophageal gastric tube airway (EGTA), and the laryngeal mask (LM), which were used in conjunction with the bag-valve-mask (BVM) by emergency life-saving technicians (ELSTs) in Japan. ⋯ The Combitube appears to be the most appropriate choice among the airway devices examined. However, serious injuries to the tissues, though they rarely occurred in the study, remain a major concern.
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To study the incidence and nature of injuries sustained by emergency medicine (EM) residents during EMS rotations, and steps taken at EM residency programs to increase resident safety during field activities. ⋯ Injuries sustained by EM residents during EMS rotations are uncommon but nontrivial, with several serious injuries and one fatality reported. The majority of EM residency programs have no formal safety training programs for EMS rotations.