S OF DEMONSTRATIONS GIVEN FOR THE ANESTHESIA TRAVEL CLUB

In emergency medical services (EMS), like other areas of healthcare, a substantial knowledge-to-action gap exists between the results of research and widespread use in clinical practice. This paper reports on a national workshop held to develop a process for creating National EMS Evidence-Informed Clinical Guidelines in an attempt to improve knowledge translation. We discuss the lessons learned...

The fifth edition of “Epidemiology and Management for Health Care” is authored by a unique duo – Dr. P. V. Sathe and Dr. P. P. Doke. Both have rich experience in teaching as well as administration at the highest level, in a large state like Maharashtra. Dr. Sathe served as Director of Medical Education and Research and Dr. Doke as Director of Health Services. Both have represented the country a...

Gaining an understanding of crowd behavior is important in supporting timely and appropriate crowd management principles in the planning and provision of emergency services at mass gatherings. This paper provides a review of the current understanding of the psychological factors of a crowd within the psychosocial domain as they apply to mass-gathering settings. It can be concluded from this rev...

In this paper we explore the concept of safe improvisation and propose principles for design and evaluation of interactive technologies to support improvisational action in safety-critical domains. A particular focus here is on the interactive technologies used in emergency medical services (EMS). In EMS improvisation is necessitated by events, but discouraged within its culture. Designing and ...

Swetha P. Karturi, MD, Hjalti Gudmundsson, MD, Masood Akhtar, MD, Arshad Jahangir, MD, Indrajit Choudhuri, MD From the Gundersen-Lutheran Health, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Center for Integrative Research on Cardiovascular Aging (CIRC...

This is a preliminary and incomplete version of a manuscript to be prepared for the CIME-EMS Summer School on Stochastic Methods in Finance, July, 2003. Please do not quote or distribute.