Prehospital Care Research Forum at UCLA

Don’t miss the NEMSIS-PCRF Post-Crash Care Research Workshop: November 12-14, 2024 - Salt Lake City! This no-nonsense workshop will be both inspiring and productive. Bring only your curiosity and passion for EMS. We will surround you with data and the resources to advance EMS with science. Participants will work in small groups to identify a research question, design a project, gather data, analyze results and craft publishable abstracts. Expert researchers, medical directors, statisticians, developers and academic staff combine their efforts to remove barriers and empower EMS providers at all levels to turn their ideas into formal abstracts. Arrive curious. Leave with an abstract! Application deadline is October 15 2024, so apply now! https://ow.ly/aLuT50THaH4

In next Monday’s Clinical Journal Club, we review a recent publication that describes the community benefits of an EMS-recognized and evaluated fall prevention program. Falls are the leading cause of injury for older Americans; in fact, one out of every four persons aged 65 and older has reported a fall in the past year. Falls are also the leading cause of EMS activations annually, accounting for over 3 million annual ED visits. EMS has a front-row seat in this epidemic, but little has been done to evaluate its role in a cure. Join us Monday, October 14, for “Stepping Up Safety: Integrating Fall Prevention in EMS Services” https://ow.ly/mHi550TFFV3

Apply now for the NEMSIS-PCRF Post-Crash Care Research Workshop! Participation is limited. This no-nonsense workshop is both inspiring and productive. Bring only your curiosity and passion for EMS. We will surround you with data and the resources to advance EMS with science. Participants will work in small groups to identify a research question, design a project, gather data, analyze results and craft publishable abstracts. For this workshop groups will focus on the important issue of effective and safe post-crash care. Apply Now: https://ow.ly/jhgE50TwmsN

Join us on Friday for the next Education Journal Club, entitled “AI Revolution: Crafting Diverse and Inclusive Medical Case Vignettes.” AI is already helping to reduce the remedial and redundant tasks in our classroom, but can it design our case studies and simulations, too? Even better, can it increase the diversity of our patient scenarios while removing our preconceived notions and implicit biases? We’ll review research that asked ChatGPT to do precisely that! https://ow.ly/R4nE50TushH

🏆EMS Research Awards🏆 🚨Best Clinical Oral Presentation🚨 🏆Left Behind? Unhoused Patients and EMS Transportation by Maya Mullen and Em Cyr 🚨Best Education Poster🚨 🏆Implementing and Evaluating a Sustainable Prehospital Trauma Training Program During the Ukraine-Russia War by Brock Jenkins 🚨Best Clinical Poster🚨 🏆Epidemiology of OHCA in Costa Rica from 2019-2023 by Andres Cairol Congratulations to our winners and to all our contestants at EMS World. Research is a huge part in the ever-changing cycle that is practicing medicine and we look forward to everyone’s continued research and seeing how it influences prehospital care in the future! #2024EXPOresearch #EMSresearch UCLA Center for Prehospital Care

Heather Davis was recognized with the 2024 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifetime commitment to excellence, tremendous contributions, and outstanding leadership in Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The award is NAEMT’s most prestigious, generously sponsored by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT). The presentation will be made during NAEMT’s General Membership Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. Heather Davis is the Director of Student Assessment at the David Geffen School of Medicine in California. She previously spent nearly 20 years at the UCLA Center for Prehospital Care, as the Associate Director and Program Director. As the Education Director for Los Angeles County Fire, she managed education programs for over 3,000 firefighter EMTs and Paramedics. She has earned credit for empowering others, providing mentorship, and being a true educational professional. Congratulations Heather Davis! #UCLACenterforPrehospitalCare #EMSResearch #2024EXPOresearch #InnovationInEMS

💡EMS Spotlight💡 Congratulations Dr Ryu Kimura! Who just won Best Clinical Award at EMS World for his extraordinary research abstract on “First Touch Treatment for OHCA Patient Prognostic Comparison Using Propensity Score Matching Between Shock First and CPR First”. We are always looking for ways to improve our OHCA prognosis’s, and this research is another step in the right direction. Great job, Ryu! 👏 #2024EXPOresearch #EMSresearch UCLA Center for Prehospital Care

🚨Breaking news in EMS!🚨 Brock Jenkins just took home the Best Education Research Award at EMS World for his innovative work on “Sustainable Trauma Education during the Ukraine-Russia War”. Amidst the challenges of conflict, this groundbreaking research is making a profound impact for prehospital providers. It is a work of testament to resilience and innovation under fire. Congratulations, Brock! #EMSResearch #2024EXPOresearch #InnovationInEMS UCLA Center for Prehospital Care

Is Your Trauma Triage Accurate? by Earl Culvey, Andrew Kuznetsov, NRP, Shaylin Dalton, Antonio R. Fernandez, and Douglas Kupas, MD, FAEMS, FACEP Congratulations on presenting your research at the World Trauma Symposium today at EMS World. Great job on you and your teams accomplishments! #2024EXPOresearch National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians ESO #NAEMT #EMSWorld #EMSExpoWorld #AdvancingEMSwithScience #WorldTraumaSymposium UCLA Center for Prehospital Care #NAEMTEducation

Half or Whole: Blood in the Prehospital Setting by Scott Kostolni, Tamara Klindt, and David Wampler Congratulations on presenting your research at the World Trauma Symposium today at EMS World. PCRF is so proud of everything you have accomplished! #2024EXPOresearch National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians ESO #NAEMT #EMSWorld #EMSExpoWorld #AdvancingEMSwithScience #WorldTraumaSymposium UCLA Center for Prehospital Care #NAEMTEducation