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| E Brooke LernerSummaryAffiliation: Medical College of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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An economic toolkit for identifying the cost of emergency medical services (EMS) systems: detailed methodology of the EMS Cost Analysis Project (EMSCAP)E Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:210-6. 2012....
Mass casualty triage: an evaluation of the data and development of a proposed national guidelineE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2:S25-34. 2008..It incorporates aspects from all of the existing triage systems to create a single overarching guide for unifying the mass casualty triage process across the United States...
Design of the Circulation Improving Resuscitation Care (CIRC) Trial: a new state of the art design for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest researchE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States
Resuscitation 82:294-9. 2011..e., M-CPR followed by AutoPulse(®)-CPR) in a randomized controlled trial that addresses methodological issues that may have influenced the results of previous studies...
Rearrest after prehospital resuscitationE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:50-4. 2011....
A comprehensive framework for determining the cost of an emergency medical services systemE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:304-13. 2007..This framework can be used to standardize the calculation of EMS system costs to a community. Standardizing the calculation of EMS cost will allow for comparisons of costs between studies, communities, and interventions...
Comparison of the 1999 and 2006 trauma triage guidelines: where do patients go?E Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:12-7. 2011..It is unknown how this modified scheme will affect the number of patients identified by emergency medical services (EMS) for transport to a trauma center...
Mass casualty triage: an evaluation of the science and refinement of a national guidelineE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 5:129-37. 2011..This article describes how the Model Uniform Core Criteria for Mass Casualty Triage were developed...
Blast-related injuries from terrorism: an international perspectiveE Brooke Lerner
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 11:137-53. 2007..This article describes these experiences and provides a summary of common findings that can be used by others in preparing for and responding to civilian casualties resulting from the detonation of explosive devices...
Cardiac arrest patients rarely receive chest compressions before ambulance arrival despite the availability of pre-arrival CPR instructionsE Brooke Lerner
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States
Resuscitation 77:51-6. 2008....
Use of SALT triage in a simulated mass-casualty incidentE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:21-5. 2010..To determine the accuracy of SALT (sort-assess-lifesaving interventions-treatment/transport) triage during a simulated mass-casualty incident, the average time it takes to make triage designations, and providers' opinions of SALT triage...
Do emergency medical services professionals think they should participate in disease prevention?E Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:64-70. 2009..A secondary objective was to determine the proportion of EMS professionals who had participated in disease prevention programs...
Linking public health and the emergency care community: 7 model communitiesE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin 9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 1:142-5. 2007....
EMS Provider assessment of vehicle damage compared with assessment by a professional crash reconstructionistE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:483-9. 2011..To determine the accuracy of emergency medical services (EMS) provider assessments of motor vehicle damage when compared with measurements made by a professional crash reconstructionist...
Does mechanism of injury predict trauma center need?E Brooke Lerner
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:518-25. 2011..To determine the predictive value of the mechanism-of-injury step of the American College of Surgeons Field Triage Decision Scheme for determining trauma center need...
A comparison of first-responder automated external defibrillator (AED) application rates and characteristics of AED trainingE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:453-7. 2003..To determine whether there were associations between the characteristics of first-responder automated external defibrillator (AED) training and AED application rates...
Validation of using EMS dispatch codes to identify low-acuity patientsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:24-31. 2005..To validate the predictive ability of previously derived emergency medical services (EMS) dispatch codes to identify patients with low-acuity illnesses...
Law Enforcement Agency Defibrillation (LEA-D): position statement and best practices recommendations from the National Center for Early DefibrillationMary M Newman
National Center for Early Defibrillation, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:346-7. 2002
Derivation of emergency medical services dispatch codes associated with low-acuity patientsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:434-9. 2003..To identify emergency medical services (EMS) dispatch codes associated with basic life support (BLS) level of prehospital care, a proxy for low illness acuity...
Cardiac arrests in skilled nursing facilities: continuing room for improvement?Manish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 7:350-4. 2006..To characterize the care received by skilled nursing facility (SNF/NF) patients suffering cardiac arrest and to evaluate the outcome of SNF/NF patients experiencing cardiac arrest...
Description and evaluation of a pilot physician-directed emergency medical services diversion control programManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:54-60. 2006..To describe the characteristics and feasibility of a physician-directed ambulance destination-control program to reduce emergency department (ED) overcrowding, as measured by hospital ambulance diversion hours...
Cardiac arrests in skilled nursing facilities: continuing room for improvement?Manish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:e27-31. 2007..To characterize the care received by skilled nursing facility (SNF/NF) patients suffering cardiac arrest and to evaluate the outcome of SNF/NF patients experiencing cardiac arrest...
Identification of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest clusters using a geographic information systemE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:81-4. 2005....
Automated external defibrillator (AED) utilization rates and reasons fire and police first responders did not apply AEDsE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:378-82. 2002..To determine the rate at which fire and police first responders (FRs) apply automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and to ascertain reasons for not applying them...
Linkages of acute care and EMS to state and local public health programs: application to public health programsE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 46542, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 11:291-7. 2005..The relevancy of these findings to public health, as well as the benefits from development of an interoperable infrastructure to public health, will be opined...
Economic value of out-of-hospital emergency care: a structured literature reviewE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Ann Emerg Med 47:515-24. 2006..The objective of this study is to conduct a structured review of published economic evaluations of out-of-hospital emergency care to assess its economic value...
An emergency medical services program to promote the health of older adultsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:956-62. 2006..To evaluate the feasibility and effect of an emergency medical services (EMS) program that screened, educated, and referred older adults with unmet needs...
Large cost savings realized from the 2006 Field Triage Guideline: reduction in overtriage in U.S. trauma centersMark Faul
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Injury Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:222-9. 2012..Trauma centers are designed and staffed to treat severely injured patients and are increasingly burdened by cases involving less-serious injury. Yet, a cost evaluation of the Field Triage national guideline has never been performed...
Use of a novel abdominal aortic tourniquet to reduce or eliminate flow in the common femoral artery in human subjectsMatt Lyon
Department of Emergency Medicine, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
J Trauma Acute Care Surg 73:S103-5. 2012..The objectives of this study were (1) determine if AAT use in humans results in flow cessation in the CFA, (2) measure the pressure required to cease flow in the CFA, and (3) measure discomfort associated with application of the AAT...
Epidemiology and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Rochester, New YorkRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States
Resuscitation 72:415-24. 2007..To characterize out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and factors that affect survival in a medium sized city that uses system status management for dispatch...
Law Enforcement Agency Defibrillation (LEA-D): proceedings of the National Center for Early Defibrillation Police AED Issues ForumVincent N Mosesso
National Center for Early Defibrillation, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:273-82. 2002..It is time for law enforcement agency defibrillation to become the rule, not the exception...
The association between emergency medical services staffing patterns and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivalNicholas M Eschmann
Department of Epidemiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:71-7. 2010..To determine whether the number of advanced life support-trained personnel at the scene of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) was associated with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) or survival to hospital discharge...
The epidemiology of emergency medical services use by older adults: an analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care SurveyManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:441-7. 2007..To characterize older adult emergency department (ED) visits arriving by emergency medical services (EMS) and to identify factors associated with those patient visits...
Conducting retrospective emergency medical services researchE Brooke Lerner
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Emergency Medicine, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:S48-51. 2002
Tactical medicine--competency-based guidelinesRichard Bruce Schwartz
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:67-82. 2011..As TEMS has grown, multiple training programs have emerged. A review of the existing programs demonstrated a lack of competency-based education...
Comparison of two packable hemostatic Gauze dressings in a porcine hemorrhage modelRichard Bruce Schwartz
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:477-82. 2011..These products were selected because they are packable gauze that work via differing mechanisms of action (tissue adhesion versus procoagulant)...
Priorities for pediatric prehospital researchGeorge L Foltin
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 26:773-7. 2010..The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) mission is to perform high-quality research for children, including prehospital research. Our objective was to develop a pediatric-specific prehospital research agenda...
The time first-response fire fighters have to initiate care in a midsize cityE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
J Emerg Med 25:171-4. 2003..Utilization of densely staged first-response fire apparatus in a midsize city may be appropriate because firefighters frequently arrive before ambulances and may have adequate time to initiate lifesaving interventions...
Risk adjustment measures and outcome measures for prehospital trauma research: recommendations from the emergency medical services outcomes project (EMSOP)Daniel L Beskind
Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:988-1000. 2011....
Paramedic accuracy using SALT triage after a brief initial trainingMatthew R Deluhery
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:526-32. 2011....
The frequency and consequences of cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed by bystanders on patients who are not in cardiac arrestKari B Haley
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 15:282-7. 2011..It is possible that people who are not in cardiac arrest may receive bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), from which the potential for injury is unknown...
Can paramedics safely treat and discharge hypoglycemic patients in the field?E Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
Am J Emerg Med 21:115-20. 2003..These patients generally preferred discharge without transportation to an ED...
Are EMS call volume predictions based on demand pattern analysis accurate?Lawrence H Brown
Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 11:199-203. 2007..Many systems use historical data to calculate their anticipated call volumes, a method of prediction known as demand pattern analysis...
Application of clinical criteria for ordering radiographs to detect cervical spine fracturesRonald M Moscati
Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14215, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:326-30. 2007..The aim of the study was to determine if spinal-immobilized patients met clinical criteria for x-rays and which clinical criteria were associated with cervical fractures...
Out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders by primary care physiciansE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
J Emerg Med 23:425-8. 2002..A majority felt intubation, mechanical ventilation, and cardioversion should not be performed for noncardiac arrest DNR patients with an indication, but not in cardiac arrest...
A survey of first-responder firefighters' attitudes, opinions, and concerns about their automated external defibrillator programE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:120-4. 2003..To identify barriers to first-responder automated external defibrillator (AED) use by determining firefighter attitudes, opinions, and concerns about their AED program...
Is total out-of-hospital time a significant predictor of trauma patient mortality?E Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, The University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:949-54. 2003..To determine if there is an association between total out-of-hospital time and trauma patient mortality...
Implementation of research in the out-of-hospital settingE Brooke Lerner
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Emergency Medicine, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:S24-7. 2002
Assessment of emergency department health care professionals' behaviors regarding HIV testing and referral for patients with STDsMelissa Fincher-Mergi
Daemen College School of Nursing, Department of Emergency Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 16:549-53. 2002..Emergency department health care professionals frequently fail to provide HIV counseling, testing, and/or referral for patients with suspected STD...
Accuracy of mild traumatic brain injury case ascertainment using ICD-9 codesJeffrey J Bazarian
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:31-8. 2006....
Studies evaluating current field triage: 1966-2005E Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:303-6. 2006..This search found that there is insufficient evidence to support the overall ACS field triage criteria. However, of the various steps, the physiologic and anatomic steps had the best evidence to support them...
The King LT versus the Combitube: flight crew performance and preferenceElizabeth A Tumpach
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:324-8. 2009..Air medical personnel frequently face the challenge of the emergency airway. The Combitube is an airway device commonly used by emergency medical services (EMS) providers as either a primary or rescue airway...
Parent opinions about universal influenza vaccination for infants and toddlersSharon G Humiston
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:108-12. 2005..Parent and caregiver opinions on the feasibility of routine influenza vaccinations for infants and toddlers are unknown...
The effect of an 18-hour electrical power outage on an urban emergency medical services systemDavid A Rand
Empress Emergency Medical Services, Yonkers, New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:391-7. 2005..Such a patient population might benefit, for example, from home deliveries of portable oxygen tanks or from the creation of temporary facilities that provide a climate-controlled environment and electrically powered medical devices...
Linkages of acute care and emergency medical services to state and local public health programs: the role of interactive information systems for responding to events resulting in mass injuryE Brooke Lerner
Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware 19718, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:237-53. 2004
Emergency physician practices and requirements regarding the medical screening examination of psychiatric patientsKerry B Broderick
Emergency Department, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:88-92. 2002..To describe the testing requirements and practices of emergency physicians (EPs) when conducting a medical screening examination of psychiatric patients...
Performance of an algorithm for assessing smallpox risk among patients with rashes that may be confused with smallpoxSonja S Hutchins
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:S195-203. 2008..Use of the algorithm did not result in misclassification of AGVPR as high risk for smallpox. The algorithm is a highly specific tool for clinical evaluation of suspected smallpox disease...
SSM study & statistical significanceLawrence H Brown
JEMS 31:16; author reply 16. 2006
Guidelines for prehospital management of traumatic brain injury 2nd editionNeeraj Badjatia
Columbia University Medical Center, Neurological Institute, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:S1-52. 2008
Prehospital care research--the basicsDavid C Cone
Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519-1315, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:S2-8. 2002
Research Grants
- Study of EMS Findings Predictive of Pediatric Trauma Center NeedE Brooke Lerner; Fiscal Year: 2010....
