EMS Fellows will complete reading assignments from the following textbook collection: Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight. This two-volume set is provided to the EMS fellow and is the official textbook from the National Association of EMS Physicians. Supplemental, targeted reading assignments will be distributed to the EMS fellow in addition to the required chapters. Supplemental reading assignments will consist of relevant journal articles, presentations, or publications in the area of interest.
*These links are intended for use by the AHN EMS Fellowship Program and are not for public download or distribution.*
*These links are intended for use by the AHN EMS Fellowship Program and are not for public download or distribution.*
July 7, 2020
Location: 30 Isabella Street (PCS Offices)
Time:1300-1600
- History of EMS, Volume 1 Chapter 1
- EMS System design and system models, Volume 2 Chapter 1
- Principles of finance
- Supplemental reading: "Accidental death and disability: the neglected disease of modern society"
July 14, 2020
Location: 30 Isabella Street
Time: 1300-1600
- EMS Provider Education
- EMS Provider Wellness
- EMS Scope of Practice/ Legislation
- Supplemental reading: Evidence based guidelines for fatigue management
- Supplemental reading: Stat Pearls: EMS Provider wellness
- Supplemental reading: Dehydration and Thrombotic events in Firefighters
July 21, 2020: Mass Gathering and Disaster EMS
Location: 30 Isabella Street
Time: 1300-1600
- State EMS Offices
- Volume 2, Chapter 28: Disaster preparedness and management
- Volume 2, Chapter 29: The federal medical response to disasters
- Volume 2, Chapter 30: Special considerations in disaster zones
- Supplemental Reading: NASEMSO ACEP Statement on Medical Direction
July 28, 2020: Mass Gathering and Disaster EMS (continued)
Location: 30 Isabella Street
Time: 1300-1600
- Volume 2, Chapter 27: Mass gathering medical management
- Volume 2, Chapter 26: Incident command
- Volume 2, Chapter 31: Prehospital triage for mass casualties
- 2011 Baltimore Grand Prix IndyCar Requirements (SUPPLEMENTAL)
- 2012 Baltimore Grand Prix Map (SUPPLEMENTAL)
- 2013 Baltimore Grand Prix AAR (SUPPLEMENTAL)
- Moonrise festival map (SUPPLEMENTAL)
August 4, 2020: Medical Oversight of EMS and Legal Issues
Location: 30 Isabella Street
- Volume 2, Chapter 8: Medical oversight of EMS systems
- Volume 2, Chapter 16: Legal issues in EMS
- Volume 2, Chapter 14: Political realities for the EMS medical director
August 11, 2020: Weapons of Mass Destruction / Radiation
Location: 30 Isabella Steet
- Volume 2, Chapter 32: Blast injuries
- Volume 2, Chapter 38: Weapons of mass destruction
- Volume 2, Chapter 37: Radiation injury
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: ACEP/CDC project on bombings and patterns of injury care
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: 2010 PDM Article on blast injuries and prehospital care
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: CDC resource page on PPE, triage, medical management
August 18, 2020: Chemical weapons, HAZMAT, and Communicable Disease
Location: 30 Isabella Street
- Volume 2, Chapter 35: Medical support of HAZMAT
- Volume 2, Chapter 36: Chemical properties of HAZMAT
- Volume 1, Chapter 25: Infectious and communicable disease
August 25, 2020: Toxicological considerations in EMS
Location: 30 Isabella Street
September 1, 2020: Occupational and behavioral health of EMS providers
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 1300-1600
- Body substance exposure and CDC guidelines / post exposure prophylaxis
- Occupational health screening / medical surveillance
- Prevention / intervention for stressful events
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Death by suicide, PEC 2018
- Board review pearls (summary) of Chapters 23-25
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: EBM Guidelines for Sleep in EMS
September 8, 2020: EMS and Public Health, Introduction to Tactical EMS Medicine
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 1300-1600
September 15, 2020: Legal Issues
Location: Zoom Meeting
Time: 1300-1600
September 22, 2020: Regionalization of Care
- Hospital diversion, regionalization of care
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: EMS hospital bypass / diversion
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Community CPR
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: STEMI regionalization
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Cardiac arrest regionalization
Location: Zoom Meeting
- Cardiac arrest systems of care
- Cardiac arrest medical management, clinical issues
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Rebel EM Topics in Post Arrest Care
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Post cardiac arrest care
October 8, 2019: Cardiac Arrest Care, Continued
Location: EM Chair's Conference Room
- Cardiac arrest research
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Epinephrine in cardiac arrest, the Paramedic2 trial
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Podcast with the author of Paramedic2 trial
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Double sequential defibrillation, a case series
- Termination of resuscitation
- Discussion: Crafting the optimum cardiac arrest resuscitation protocol
October 15, 2019: Performance Improvement and the Triple Aim Concept
Combined conference with UNC EMS Fellowship Collaborative
Location: Via WebEx / EM Chair's Conference Room
Details:
UNC EMS Fellowship Didactics
Tuesday October 15: 2PM-5PM
2PM Rachel Stemerman discussing performance improvement
4 PM Joey Grover discussing the Triple Aim Concept
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Call in information:
JOIN WEBEX MEETING
https://uncsom.webex.com/uncsom/j.php?MTID=maceab1af07dc6895ded718dee13f4a04
Meeting number (access code): 730 456 536
Meeting password: JvmeCTh6
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October 22, 2019: Respiratory emergencies and the undifferentiated patient
- Respiratory emergencies
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: Meta analysis on prehospital non invasive ventilation
- The Challenge of the undifferentiated patient
- SUPPLEMENTAL READING: The "San Diego" RSI Study
October 29, 2019: No didactics, EM faculty meetings