Volume 15 Issue 7

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Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

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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

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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

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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

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Availability and Utilization of Cardiac Resuscitation Centers

BE Mumma, DB Diedricks, JF Holmes

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