Planning Recommendations for International Emergency Medicine and Out-of-hospital Care System Development

Emergency care--in and out of hospital.

Lessons learned from international emergency medicine development.

The lessons learned from development of EM around the world span several key areas including general development, systems comparisons, models of EM practice, and education and training. Neither definitive nor exhaustive, these lessons learned are intended to be viewed as sign posts along the road traveled at this point in international EM development. It is hoped that future participants in int...

Prediction of critical illness during out-of-hospital emergency care.

CONTEXT Early identification of nontrauma patients in need of critical care services in the emergency setting may improve triage decisions and facilitate regionalization of critical care. OBJECTIVES To determine the out-of-hospital clinical predictors of critical illness and to characterize the performance of a simple score for out-of-hospital prediction of development of critical illness dur...

36th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Introduction: A hallmark of sepsis is early onset microvascular dysfunction. However, the mechanism responsible for maldistribution of capillary blood flow is not understood. Evidence suggests red blood cells (RBC) can sense local oxygen (O2) conditions and signal the vasculature, via adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to increase capillary flow. We hypothesized that sepsis impaired microvascular au...

International emergency medicine fellowships.

The active interchange of intellectual ideas in the quest to improve healthcare globally will likely be best served by active interchange among physicians around the world. Subspecialty fellowship training programs for United States and foreign graduates will provide a focused path to development of a global network of physicians dedicated to the delivery of high-quality emergency health services.