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2015 Conferences LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE // Sacramento
JUNE 12, 2015
ANNUAL ASSEMBLY // Los Angeles/Universal City
Open Access at www.westjem.com
ISSN 1936-900X
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
EDITORIALS 721 A BOLD IDEA: The “Population” Specialist
JE Tintinalli
VOLUME XV, NUMBER 7, November 2014
APRIL 21, 2015
Volume XV, Number 7, November 2014
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DISASTER MEDICINE/ EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 723 Emergency Medical Services Public Health Implications and Interim Guidance for the Ebola Virus in the United States
CE McCoy, S Lotfipour, B Chakravarthy, C Schultz, E Barton
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Ebola Virus Disease: Essential Public Health Principles for Clinicians
732
Utility of Vital Signs in Mass Casualty-Disaster Triage
KL Koenig, C Majestic, MJ Burns DE Hogan, T Brown
PREHOSPITAL CARE 736 Prehospital Use of IM Ketamine for Sedation of Violent and Agitated Patients
KA Scheppke, J Braghiroli, M Shalaby, R Chait
742
Ketamine for Pre-hospital Control of Agitated Delirious Patients: Promising but Not yet Ready for Prime Time
CH Schultz
744
National Trends in the Utilization of Emergency Medical Services for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Stroke
K Tataris, S Kivlehan, P Govindarajan
749
Does Pre-hospital Endotracheal Intubation Improve Survival in Adults with Non-traumatic Outof-hospital Cardiac Arrest? A Systematic Review
L Tiah, K kajino, O Alsakaf, D Carol Tan Bautista, M Eng Hock Ong, D Lie, G Yasin Naroo, N Edwin Doctor, MYC Chia, H Nee Gan
758
Availability and Utilization of Cardiac Resuscitation Centers
BE Mumma, DB Diedricks, JF Holmes
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