For the tenth edition of the PDM podcast series, Dr. Greg Ciottone and Dr. Attila Hertelendy discuss their recent article, “State Preparedness for Crisis Standards of Care in the United States: Implications for Emergency Management.” This Open Access article is accessible at the following link – doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X20001405.
The February issue (Volume 36, Issue 1) of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is now available on Cambridge Core. This issue features several Open Access (OA), COVID-related articles including two guest editorials. The first guest editorial titled, “State Preparedness for Crisis Standards of Care in the United States: Implications for Emergency Management” was written by Annie Ingram, Attila Hertelendy, Michael Molloy, and Gregory Ciottone. The second guest editorial, “COVID-19: A Rural US Emergency Department Perspective,” is from Angelika Underwood.
Also included in the February issue are articles examing first aid practices for injured children in rural Ghana; PTSD among humanitarian aid workers; the safety of ECMO transports without physicians present; clinical presentations of patients after industrial chlorine gas exposure in Oman, 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 36:1. 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.
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.