Background In Denmark, all ambulance transports are dispatched through the Acute Medical Coordination Centre (AMK). Even though this unit is the only way to request an ambulance, it is experienced by many Emergency Technicians EMTs that the visitation based on patient illness and injury differs widely. The visitation is performed either by an AMK visitation officer (AMK-VO), or a doctor that ta...

Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) has been implemented in high-stakes examinations such as the National Council Licensure Examination-Registered Nurses in the United States since 1994. Subsequently, the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians in the United States adopted CAT for certifying emergency medical technicians in 2007. This was done with the goal of introducing the impleme...

introduction: triage is a response to the problem of overcrowding in emergency departments (eds) and accuracy of decisions made by the triage unit affects the ultimate outcome of eds. this study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge of triage among last year medical students in shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional analytical study whose subjects were all t...

Naloxone is a medication that reverses respiratory depression from opioid overdose if given in time. Paramedics routinely administer naloxone to opioid overdose victims in the prehospital setting, and many states are moving to increase access to the medication. Several jurisdictions have expanded naloxone administration authority to nonparamedic first responders, and others are considering that...

The 25th known outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is now a global public health emergency and the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the epidemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Since the first cases of the West African epidemic were reported in March 2014, there has been an increase in infection rates of over 13,000% over a 6-month period. The...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to evaluate emergency medicine physician and nurse acceptance of nonnurse, nonphysician screening for geriatric syndromes. METHODS This was a single-center emergency department (ED) survey of physicians and nurses after an 8-month project. Geriatric technicians were paid medical student research assistants evaluating consenting ED patients older th...