Join Dr. Evan Kuhl, Medical Director for Okolona Fire and Rescue and Ameripro, and Dr. Kuzel to discuss the implications of artificial intelligence and its uses in EMS. 

Citations:

"Artificial intelligence in Emergency Medical Services dispatching: assessing the potential impact of an automatic speech recognition software on stroke detection taking the Capital Region of Denmark as case in point." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9097123/

"Deployment of a wearable biosensor system in the emergency department: a technical feasibility study" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7814225/

"Houston EMS Advances Mobile Integrated Healthcare Through the ETHAN Program" https://www.jems.com/mobile-integrated-health-and-community-paramedicine/houston-ems-advances-mobile-integrated-healthcare-through-the-ethan-program/

"Real-Time Multimodal Cognitive Assistant for Emergency Medical Services" https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06734

"Artificial intelligence and machine learning in prehospital emergency care: A scoping review" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10440716/

We're back from a bit of a hiatus! Today Dr. Kuzel will discuss Left Ventricular Assist Devices and the prehospital management of these devices.

Disclaimer: Dr. Kuzel is not a Cardiologist or CT Surgeon, this is an Emergency Physician's Approach. 

In this episode, PGY-2 Emergency Pharmacist Carly Loudermilk and I discuss psychiatric medications and what to look for. 

Happy to host Nick Cottrell for a discussion on toxicologic emergencies

On behalf of the Louisville Prehospital Care Podcast Team, we extend our deepest condolences to Paramedic Don Scheer's family, friends, and the entire prehospital team here in Jefferson County and surrounding counties. 

5 million patients each year are placed into C-Collars in the United States, but only 12,000 patients annually develop spinal injury. Let's review the literature on C-Collars and see if they truly are "relatively harmless" and make a strong case on de-emphasis of c-collars in awake and asymptomatic patients.


Disclaimer: Follow your protocols! If you suspect a neurological injury in Blunt Trauma place the patient in a C-Collar