As is my habit, I live tweeted the 2017 Annual Meeting. You can see every tweet sent under the #NAEMSP17 twitter feed here.  Of note, this year I skipped a larger number of sessions than usual in order to work at the “Twitter Help” table.  It was great to see so many of the big names in EMS take the dive into social media.  I look forward to seeing them out in the Twitter-verse.

I also covered some of the sessions for EMS1.  Find those articles here.

Sunday – MIHCP Pre-conference

Read my EMS1 summary here.

• Intro/State of the Specialty – Kevin Munjal & David Schoewetter
  • Principles for Community Paramedic Programs – NAEMSP & NRHA
  • MIH/CP Survey – NAEMT
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Study – CDC
  • Mobile Micromedex Drug Information App – Truven Health Analytics
  • Inappropriate Payments and Questionable Billing for Medicare Part B Ambulance Transports – OIG

  • EMS Office Assessment of the Status of Community Paramedicine/Mobile Integrated Healthcare in the States and Territories – NASEMSO

  • Expanding the Roles of Emergency Medical Services Providers: A Legal Analysis – ASTHO

• MIH Measures – Dan Swayze
  • MIH/CP Measurement Strategy Overview – NAEMT
  • Donabedian’s original article on Structure/Process/Outcome
• Finance – Jonathan Washko
  • Triple Aim – IHI
• Collaboration – Dan Swayze
  • Co-Opetition
  • Search for sex offenders in your area – Megan’s Law
• Legal & Policy – Andy Gienapp
  • Wyoming MIHCP Rules – Chapter 14
• Medical Direction – Kevin Munjal
  • National Trauma Care System – Focus on #10
• Education – David Schoewetter
  • PDSA – Plan Do Study Act – IHI
• EMS 3.0 – Matt Zavadsky
  • Overview of Emergency Department Visits in the United States – HCUP Data
  • EMS 3.0 – EMS World
  • California MIHCP Results – THIS IS SO EXCITING (Don’t judge)
• System Profiles
  • REMSA – Brenda Staffan
    • Science of Improvement – IHI
  • MedStar – Matt Zavadsky
  • CEMS Pittsburgh – Dan Swayze
  • Northwell – Mike Guttenberg
    • My summary of their project – EMS1
    • Value Based Metrics for MIHCP Population
  • Hennepin – Michael Wilcox
    • My summary of the CP Curriculum – EMS World

Monday – Preparing Research for Publication Precon

• JANE – Journal Author Name Estimator
• The Craft of Scientific Writing
• What happens when you don’t proofread – Slate
• Achieving graphical excellence – Annals of EM
• The EQUATOR Network – my new best friend for writing up papers
• Utstein guidelines for writing up OHCA data
• PROSPERO – Register of systematic reviews
• Prehospital Emergency Care – Instructions for authors
• JAMA – Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

Tuesday – Day 1

Keynote – What Safety can EMS Learn from Aviation & Safety Engineering – Terry Fairbanks

• To Err is Human – IOM
• Human Factors & Ergonomics – Wikipedia
• Slips, Lapses, Mistakes, Violations – Crew Resource Management
• Hazards with Medical Devices: The Role of Design – Annal of EM 2008
• Tenerife: Deadliest Plane Disaster in History – Bloomberg
• Usability Study of Two Common Defibrillators Reveals Hazards – Annals of EM 2007
• Dennis Quaid Twins Heparin OD
• Indiana Baby Heparin ODs
• Safety Triangle Explained
• TWA Flight 514 – Wikipedia
• 24 Hours of International Flights – You Tube
• Sidney Dekker Books – Dr. Fairbanks recommends start with “Just Culture”
• Whack-a-Mole: The Price We Pay For Expecting Perfection – David Marx
• RCA2: Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm – NPSF
• Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) – AHRQ

Evidence-Based Guidelines for Fatigue Management in EMS – P. Daniel Patterson

• I gave this research a big shout out during a recent Inside EMS Podcast.
• Grade Methodology

Improving Patient & Worker Safety in a Moving Ambulance – Jim Green

• Read my EMS1 summary here.
• Ground Ambulance Crashes – EMS.gov presentation
• Ambulance Crash Test Standards – Society for Automotive Engineers
• Lots of videos like the one below

Pulse Nightclub Shooting: Lessons Learned from Orlando – Christopher Hunter

• Read my EMS1 summary here.
• Read my IHI Summary of the corresponding ORMC providers here.

Women in EMS Interest Group Meeting

• Are you a Woman in EMS?  Follow other women on Twitter here and search through the #WomenInEMS hashtag here.

Wednesday – Day 2 – #oops

Life happened, as such I was unable to attend any sessions on Day 2

Thursday – Day 3

Social Media and NAEMSP – Phil Moy – Joelle Donofrio – Jeremiah Escajeda – Scott Goldberg

• Follow NAEMSP on Twitter, Facebook, or read the blog!
• Using Twitter for EMS – A guide

EMS Experts in the Hot Seat

• Have a question that didn’t get answered or want to be on the panel next year? Email NAEMSPExpertPanel@gmail.com throughout the year and they will send it out to the panelists.
• Diversity was a hot topic (huh…I wonder who sent those questions in?)
  • Increases Diversity among First Responders – 2016 Report

Calling on a Code on our Mental Health – Christopher Colwell – Ann Marie Farina

• Code Green Campaign
• Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance
  • Report a suicide

All Days – Top Five Articles in EMS – Blair Bigham – Michael Millin – Jon Rittenberger

• Identification of adults with sepsis in the prehospital environment: a systematic review – BMJ Open
  • qSOFA
  • Paramedic-Initiated CMS Sepsis Core Measure Bundle Prior to Hospital Arrival: A Stepwise Approach – PEC
• Amiodarone, Lidocaine, or Placebo in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (ALPS) – NEJM
• Influence of EMS-Physician presence on survival of OOHCA – Critical Care
• Which patients should be transported to the ED? – Prehospital Emergency Care
• Mortality and Prehospital Blood Pressure in Patients with Major TBI – JAMA

Hope to see you in San Diego next year!
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