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Fatal ascending tonic-clonic seizure syndromeJ Dunford
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Ann Emerg Med 32:624-6. 1998..Emergency physicians must be cognizant of this unique toxidrome to initiate early, aggressive care...- Impact of the San Diego Serial Inebriate Program on use of emergency medical resourcesJames V Dunford
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92103, USA
Ann Emerg Med 47:328-36. 2006.... - Incidence of transient hypoxia and pulse rate reactivity during paramedic rapid sequence intubationJames V Dunford
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Diego, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:721-8. 2003..We determine the incidence of desaturation and pulse rate reactivity during paramedic rapid sequence intubation of patients with severe head injuries (Glasgow Coma Scale score <or=8)... - Emergency medical dispatchJames V Dunford
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92103 8676, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 20:859-75. 2002..Along with other essential personnel that make up the fabric of the public safety net, emergency medical dispatchers have now become essential to the provision of time-critical skills and compassion for perceived medical emergency... - Performance measurements in emergency medical servicesJames Dunford
City of San Diego EMS and Department of Emergency Medicine, UCSD Medical Center, California 92103, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:92-8. 2002..Emergency medical services professionals must actively participate with the broader health care community in creating performance measurements to ensure that high-quality care is delivered consistently... - Impact of an after-hours on-call emergency physician on ambulance transports from a county jailTheodore C Chan
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California 92103, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:327-31. 2003.... 
Evidence-based performance measures for emergency medical services systems: a model for expanded EMS benchmarkingJ Brent Myers
Section of EMF Homeland Security and Disaster Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390 8579, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:141-51. 2008..It is hoped that utilization of this model will serve to improve EMS system design and deployment strategies while enhancing the benchmarking and sharing of best practices among EMS systems...- Rate of decline in oxygen saturation at various pulse oximetry values with prehospital rapid sequence intubationDaniel P Davis
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California 92103 8676, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:46-51. 2008..Objective. To define the rate of SpO2 decline at various pulse oximetry values and identify a threshold below which active BVM should be performed during prehospital RSI... - Effect of prehospital 12-lead electrocardiogram on activation of the cardiac catheterization laboratory and door-to-balloon time in ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarctionJason P Brown
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Am J Cardiol 101:158-61. 2008..001). In conclusion, this study demonstrates that prehospital electrocardiographic diagnosis of STEMI with activation of the CCL markedly reduces D + B time... - The feasibility of a regional cardiac arrest receiving systemDaniel P Davis
University of California San Diego, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, CA 92103 8676, United States
Resuscitation 74:44-51. 2007..The safety of bypassing non-designated facilities with such a regional system is not known... - Accuracy of stroke recognition by emergency medical dispatchers and paramedics--San Diego experiencePrasanthi Ramanujam
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94143 0208, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:307-13. 2008.... - Predictors of intubation success and therapeutic value of paramedic airway management in a large, urban EMS systemDaniel P Davis
Department of Emergency Medicine, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103 8676, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:356-62. 2006..Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is commonly used by paramedics for definitive airway management. The predictors of success and therapeutic value with regard to oxygenation are not well studied... - Ventilation patterns in patients with severe traumatic brain injury following paramedic rapid sequence intubationDaniel P Davis
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Neurocrit Care 2:165-71. 2005..This analysis explores ventilation patterns in a cohort of trial patients undergoing end-tidal CO2 (ETCO2) monitoring... - The three-phase model of cardiac arrest as applied to ventricular fibrillation in a large, urban emergency medical services systemGary M Vilke
Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California at San Diego, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92103-8676, USA
Resuscitation 64:341-6. 2005..These data are consistent with the three-phase model of cardiac arrest... - The impact of hypoxia and hyperventilation on outcome after paramedic rapid sequence intubation of severely head-injured patientsDaniel P Davis
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California 92103 8676, USA
J Trauma 57:1-8; discussion 8-10. 2004..An increase in mortality has been documented in association with paramedic rapid sequence intubation (RSI) of severely head-injured patients. This analysis explores the impact of hypoxia and hyperventilation on outcome... - The use of quantitative end-tidal capnometry to avoid inadvertent severe hyperventilation in patients with head injury after paramedic rapid sequence intubationDaniel P Davis
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103 8676, USA
J Trauma 56:808-14. 2004..This study aimed to determine whether field end-tidal carbon dioxide CO2 (ETCO2) monitoring decreases inadvertent severe hyperventilation after paramedic rapid sequence intubation... - Cardiac monitoring of human subjects exposed to the taserSaul D Levine
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA
J Emerg Med 33:113-7. 2007..Alterations in the QT interval were observed in some subjects but their true incidence and clinical significance are unknown... - Serum troponin I measurement of subjects exposed to the Taser X-26Christian M Sloane
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California 92103 8676, USA
J Emerg Med 35:29-32. 2008..It was concluded that human volunteers exposed to a single shock from the Taser did not develop an abnormal serum troponin I level 6 h after shock, suggesting that there was no myocardial necrosis or infarction... - Hyperventilation following aero-medical rapid sequence intubation may be a deliberate response to hypoxemiaDaniel P Davis
UCSD Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, 200 West Arbor Drive, Malicode 8676, San Diego, CA 92103 8676, USA
Resuscitation 73:354-61. 2007..Recent studies document a high incidence of hyperventilation by prehospital providers, with a potentially detrimental effect on outcome in traumatic brain injury (TBI)...