4390.0 Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 4:30 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: Discuss the racial differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival and treatment Assess the advantages and disadvantages of the various emergency water supply alternatives Explain the purpose of the federal EMSC Program and the performance measures developed to assess program goals.
Moderator:
John Lundell, MA

4:30 PM
Racial Differences in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival and Treatment
Elizabeth Ty Wilde, PhD, Lindsay Speros Robbins, MPH and Joyce Pressley, PhD, MPH
4:50 PM
Emergency Water Supply Planning For Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
J. Alan Roberson, MS, PE and Dave Hiltebrand
     
5:10 PM
Pediatric Emergency Care Capabilities: An Assessment of EMS Agencies and Hospitals in the United States in Key Performance Measure Areas
Michael Ely, MHRM, Kent Page, MSTAT, Patricia Schmuhl, BA, Andrea Genovesi, MA, Craig Hemingway, EMT-I, Don Vernon, MD and Lenora Olson, MA, PhD
     
5:30 PM
Implementation of a Sustainable Interdisciplinary Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Transport Safety Innovation and Knowledge Transfer e-platform
Nadine Levick, MD, MPH and Arthur Cooper, MD, MS
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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