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Save the dates for the WADEM's first-ever virtual forum! Response, Resilience, and Reset: Finding Order in Complexity is an online gathering featuring live-streamed presentations and discussions with experts from disaster medicine, risk reduction, and emergency preparedness.
What does it take for pharmacists to be prepared for disasters? Read about research on the disaster preparedness of Australian pharmacists in a new paper published in PDM - http://bit.ly/pharmacists-in-disasters.
A new article in PDM analyzes the effect of COVID-19 after Hurricanes Eta and Iota struck Honduras in late-2020. Read it here - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X21000182.
In Sierra Leone, the newly developed National Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) helps the country move past war and Ebola. In a recent article in PDM, Dr. Luca Ragazzoni describes how NEMS grew to be a success. Read the article here - http://bit.ly/nems-design.
Despite its widespread use for determining public health preparedness in the US, the NHSPI does not appear to be a predictor of excess mortality related to the COVID pandemic. Read the article in PDM - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001521 .
A retrospective study in PDM of 93 ECMO transports shows no difference in adverse events when a highly trained critical care transport team and perfusionist are accompanied by a physician or critical care APP. Read the full-text article - https://bit.ly/ecmo-transports.
COVID-19 vaccine distribution is highlighting the need for a population-based management model to ensure community needs and risks are reflected during a health crisis. Read how this model can be implemented - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001363.
Tension pneumothorax is a fatal condition. Paramedics who were novice to POCUS were more likely to correctly diagnose with ultrasound in simulated scenarios after a brief training - https://bit.ly/_pocus.

PDM Podcast #11: Population-Based Management of Pandemics

WADEM · PDM Podcast #11 – Global Public Health Database Support to Population-Based…

Prof. Frederick “Skip” Burkle and Prof. Benjamin Ryan join the podcast series for a very special extended discussion looking at their two recently published Open Access papers in PDM. Prof. Burkle gives an in-depth overview of the concept of population-based management teams and the development of a new global database to deal with pandemics. Prof. Ryan provides a ground-level account of how this model was applied on the Baylor University campus in Waco, Texas (USA).

Both papers, Global Public Health Database Support to Population-Based Management of Pandemics and Global Public Health Crises – Parts I and II, are available at the following links:

Part I – The Concept – doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001351

Part II – The Database – doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001363

PDM 36:2 (April 2021) is now on Cambridge Core!

The April issue (Volume 36, Issue 2) of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is now available on Cambridge Core. This issue features several Open Access (OA) Covid-related articles including a look at the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies among municipal first responders, the impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras during the pandemic, and on-boat resuscitation by lifeguards in the Covid era.

Also included in the April issue are articles examining a community-based first responder network in rural Thailand; a five-part series on mass-gathering medical case reporting; the flooding of hemodialysis clinics after Hurricane Harvey, and much more! Be sure to check out the PDM podcast series featuring interviews with authors of recent articles – https://soundcloud.com/wadem-pdm.

WADEM members have unlimited access to every issue of PDM through Cambridge Core. Click on the “Latest Issue” tab to view 36:2. Check back often on FirstView for the most recent content regarding out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical care, disaster medicine, and emergency public health and safety.

Virtual Journal Club #2 – Dr. Sam Stratton

WADEM’s 2nd edition of its Virtual Journal Club features none other than PDM’s own Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Sam Stratton, presenting an overview and analysis of the following article: “Impact of Dispatcher-Assisted Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis” – https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20000588.

This article was published in the August 2020 issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine and is available to read at the following link – https://bit.ly/wadem-vjc-2.

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PDM Podcast #11: Population-Based Management of Pandemics

PDM 36:2 (April 2021) is now on Cambridge Core!

Virtual Journal Club #2 – Dr. Sam Stratton

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