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Wave 2024 Recap: Top 6 Key Topics in EMS & Fire Industries

ESO

Recent EMS staffing and resource shortages have necessitated rapid dispatch prioritization beyond the Emergency Medical Dispatch’s (EMD) intended scope. Due to this, it’s important for the industry to develop strategies for better supporting psychiatric patients while avoiding unnecessary ED visits and secondary EMS transports.

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Extreme shock and cardiac arrest in COVID patient

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This is a 30-something healthy patient presented with COVID pneumonia who presented to the ED. He became pulseless on more than 1 occasion ( presumably in EMD ) — but responded to resuscitation + treatment with pressors, by regaining a pulse with a spontaneous rhythm. He was moderately hypoxic.

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