OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Prehospital Emergency Care is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Prehospital Airway Management: A Systematic Review	37
Fatal Sodium Nitrite Poisoning: Key Considerations for Prehospital Providers	35
Non-transport after Prehospital Naloxone Administration Is Associated with Higher Risk of Subsequent Non-fatal Overdose	27
THOR-AABB Working Party Recommendations for a Prehospital Blood Product Transfusion Program	21
Description of the 2020 NEMSIS Public-Release Research Dataset	21
Under-Triage and Over-Triage Using the Field Triage Guidelines for Injured Patients: A Systematic Review	20
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Demand for Emergency Ambulances in Victoria, Australia	19
Differences in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Management and Outcomes across Urban, Suburban, and Rural Settings	18
Prehospital Guidelines for the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury – 3rd Edition	18
Prehospital Cardiac Arrest Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	18
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prehospital Pain Management: Recommendations	17
An Analysis of 13 Years of Prehospital Combat Casualty Care: Implications for Maintaining a Ready Medical Force	17
Emergency Medical Services Personnel Awareness and Training about Personal Protective Equipment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Refusals After Prehospital Administration of Naloxone during the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest System-of-Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	16
COVID-19 Vaccinations in EMS Professionals: Prevalence and Predictors	15
Principles to Guide the Future of Paramedicine in Canada	15
Epidemiology, Prehospital Characteristics and Outcomes of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in The Netherlands: The BRAIN-PROTECT Study	15
The Child Opportunity Index and Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Utilization	14
Disparities in Emergency Medical Services Care Delivery in the United States: A Scoping Review	14
Secondary Traumatic Stress in Emergency Services Systems (STRESS) Project: Quantifying and Predicting Compassion Fatigue in Emergency Medical Services Personnel	14
Methods and Implementation of the 2019 EMS Practice Analysis	13
Prehospital Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder by Paramedics: First Year Results of the EMS Buprenorphine Use Pilot	13
COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of EMS Physicians in a Community Response Effort	13
Assessment of Fall-Related Emergency Medical Service Calls and Transports after a Community-Level Fall-Prevention Initiative	12

Using Trauma Video Review to Assess EMS Handoff and Trauma Team Non-Technical Skills	12
Position Statement: Mass Gathering Medical Care	12
Prehospital Drug Assisted Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	12
Design and Derivation of the Austrian Prehospital Stroke Scale (APSS) to Predict Severe Stroke with Large Vessel Occlusion	11
A Conceptual Framework for Non-Military Investigators to Understand the Joint Roles of Medical Care in the Setting of Future Large Scale Combat Operations	11
First Description of a Helicopter-Borne ECPR Team for Remote Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest	11
Emergency Medical Services Utilization for Acute Stroke Care: Analysis of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program, 2014-2019	11
Ambulance Calls for Substance-Related Issues Before and After COVID-19	11
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the United States Emergency Medical Services Workforce: A Scoping Review	11
Prehospital Airway Management Training and Education: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	10
Tourniquet Application for Bleeding Control in a Rural Trauma System: Outcomes and Implications for Prehospital Providers	10
EMS Experience Caring and Communicating with Patients and Families with a Life-Limiting-Illness	10
National Characteristics of Non-Transported Children by Emergency Medical Services in the United States	10
2022 Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prehospital Care	10
Effect of a Mobile Integrated Hospice Healthcare Program on Emergency Medical Services Transport to the Emergency Department	10
Are Pelvic Binders an Effective Prehospital Intervention?	9
Correlation between Emergency Medical Services Suspected COVID-19 Patients and Daily Hospitalizations	9
Prehospital Surgical Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	9
Appropriate Air Medical Services Utilization and Recommendations for Integration of Air Medical Services Resources into the EMS System of Care: A Joint Position Statement and Resource Document of NAEM	9
Characteristics of Nontrauma Patients Receiving Prehospital Blood Transfusion with the Same Triggers as Trauma Patients: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study	9
Characteristics and Outcomes of Prehospital Tourniquet Use for Trauma in the United States	9
Optimizing Physiology During Prehospital Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	9
Priorities for Prehospital Evidence-Based Guideline Development: A Modified Delphi Analysis	9
Prehospital Trauma Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	8
Recommended Essential Equipment for Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support Ground Ambulances 2020: A Joint Position Statement	8
The Use of Predictive Modeling to Compare Prehospital eCPR Strategies	8
Improved Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival with a Comprehensive Dispatcher-Assisted CPR Program in a Developing Emergency Care System	8
Effects of COVID-19 on EMS Refresher Course Completion and Delivery	8
Prehospital Providers’ Perspectives about Online Medical Direction in Emergency End-of-Life Decision-Making	8
Initial Prehospital Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) as a Predictor of Patient Outcomes	8
Geographic Distribution of Accredited Paramedic Education Programs in the United States	8
Eating and Physical Activity Patterns in Day and Night Shift EMS Clinicians	8
Paramedic-Performed Carotid Artery Ultrasound Heralds Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Case Report	7
Medication Errors in Pediatric Patients after Implementation of a Field Guide with Volume-Based Dosing	7
Linkage of Emergency Medical Services and Hospital Data: A Necessary Precursor to Improve Understanding of Outcomes of Prehospital Care	7
Emergency Medical Services Prenotification is Associated with Reduced Odds of In-Hospital Mortality in Stroke Patients	7
Disparities in Prehospital Non-Traumatic Pain Management	7
Need for Emergent Intervention within 6 Hours: A Novel Prediction Model for Hospital Trauma Triage	7
Comparison of Four Methods of Paramedic Continuing Education in the Management of Pediatric Emergencies	7
Implementing Oral Systemic Corticosteroids for Pediatric Asthma into EMS Treatment Guidelines: A Qualitative Study	7
Prehospital Supraglottic Airways: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	7
Description of Adverse Events in a Cohort of Dance Festival Attendees with Stimulant-Induced Severe Agitation Treated with Dissociative-Dose Ketamine	7
A Novel Use of NEMSIS to Create a PECARN-Specific EMS Patient Registry	7
Factors Associated with Emergency Medical Service Reattendance in Low Acuity Patients Not Transported by Ambulance	6
A Systematic Review of Methodologies and Outcome Measures of Mobile Integrated Health-Community Paramedicine Programs	6
The Current Status and Challenges of Prehospital Trauma Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review	6
SARS-CoV-2 IgG Seropositivity and Acute Asymptomatic Infection Rate among Firefighter First Responders in an Early Outbreak County in California	6
Clinical Care and Restraint of Agitated or Combative Patients by Emergency Medical Services Practitioners	6
Using Natural Language Processing to Examine Social Determinants of Health in Prehospital Pediatric Encounters and Associations with EMS Transport Decisions	6
Prehospital Time Disparities for Rural Patients with Suspected STEMI	6

Outcomes with Tibial and Humeral Intraosseous Access Compared to Peripheral Intravenous Access in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest	6
Evaluation of Pelvic Circular Compression Devices in Severely Injured Trauma Patients with Pelvic Fractures	6
Identifying Patient Phenotype Cohorts Using Prehospital Electronic Health Record Data	6
Prehospital Intubation of Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Dutch Nationwide Trauma Registry Analysis	6
Factors Influencing Medication Errors in the Prehospital Paramedic Environment: A Mixed Method Systematic Review	6
Hypothermia in the Combat Trauma Population	6
Public Health Surveillance of Behavioral Health Emergencies through Emergency Medical Services Data	6
Prehospital Initiation of Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder by Paramedics	6
Sex Disparities in Prehospital Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in South Korea	6
Outcomes following Naloxone Administration by Bystanders and First Responders	6
Prehospital Manual Ventilation: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	6
Activation and On-Scene Intervals for Severe Trauma EMS Interventions: An Analysis of the NEMSIS Database	6
Effect of Nighttime on Prehospital Care and Outcomes of Road Traffic Injuries in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Study of Data from the Pan-Asian Trauma Outcomes Study (PATOS)	5
“House Calls” by Mobile Integrated Health Paramedics for Patients with Heart Failure: A Feasibility Study	5
Prehospital Lactate is Associated with the Need for Blood in Trauma	5
A Geospatial Evaluation of 9-1-1 Ambulance Transports for Children and Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness	5
Quality Management of Prehospital Airway Programs: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	5
EMS Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids to Pediatric Asthma Patients: An Analysis by Severity and Transport Interval	5
The Importance of Neighborhood in 9-1-1 Ambulance Contacts: A Geospatial Analysis of Medical and Trauma Emergencies in Denver	5
Evidence-Based Guideline for Prehospital Airway Management	5
Emergency Medical Services Leadership Perspectives on Implementation of Evidence-Based Guidelines: A Qualitative Study	5
Accuracy and Implications of Hemorrhagic Stroke Recognition by Emergency Medical Services	5
EMS Program Graduates Who Did Not Retest after Initial Attempt on the National Certification Exam	5
Emergency Medical Services Communication Barriers and the Deaf American Sign Language User	5
Incidence, Complications, and Factors Associated with Out-of-Hospital First Attempt Intubation Failure in Adult Patients: A Secondary Analysis of the CURASMUR Trial Data	5
A Proposed Theoretical Framework for Clinical Judgment in EMS	5
Prehospital Hemorrhage Control and Treatment by Clinicians: A Joint Position Statement	5
Driving Ambulances Safely: Findings of Ten Years of Japanese Ambulance Crash Data	5
The Effectiveness of Intranasal Midazolam for the Treatment of Prehospital Pediatric Seizures: A Non-inferiority Study	5
Burnout and Workplace Incivility Among Emergency Medical Services Practitioners: A Preliminary Report	5
Emergency Medical Services Clinicians’ Perspectives on Pediatric Non-Transport	5
STEMI Equivalents and Their Incidence during EMS Transport	5
Prehospital Pericardiocentesis Using a Pneumothorax Needle	4
Methods Used to Obtain Pediatric Patient Weights, Their Accuracy and Associated Drug Dosing Errors in 142 Simulated Prehospital Pediatric Patient Encounters	4
Descriptive Study of Ambulance Attendances for Older Adults with and without Dementia in Western Australia	4
Prehospital Validation of the Assessment of Blood Consumption (ABC) Score	4
Impact of Trauma Center Designation Level on the Survival of Trauma Patients Transported by Police in the United States	4
Prehospital Mechanical Ventilation: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	4
Effect of Short versus Long Duration Naps on Blood Pressure during Simulated Night Shift Work: A Randomized Crossover Trial	4
Prehospital Predictors of Atypical STEMI Symptoms	4
Characteristics and Experiences of Women Physicians and Professionals in NAEMSP	4
Prehospital Pediatric Asthma Care during COVID-19: Changes to EMS Treatment Protocols and Downstream Clinical Effects	4
An Analysis of Prehospital Pediatric Medication Dosing Errors after Implementation of a State-Wide EMS Pediatric Drug Dosing Reference	4
Completeness of Pediatric Versus Adult Patient Assessment Documentation in the National Emergency Medical Services Information System	4
Efficacy and Safety of Methoxyflurane for Treatment of Acute Traumatic Pain by EMTs during Alpine Rescue Operations: The “PainDrop” Trial	4
Paramedic and EMT Program Performance on Certification Examinations Varies by Program Size and Geographic Location	4
Identification of Factors Associated with Return of Spontaneous Circulation after Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Natural Language Processing	4
The Effect of Building-Level Socioeconomic Status on Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Retrospective Cohort Study	4
Cardiometabolic, Dietary and Physical Health in Graduate Paramedics during the First 12-Months of Practice – A Longitudinal Study	4
Manual Pressure Points Technique for Massive Hemorrhage Control—A Prospective Human Volunteer Study	4
A Standardized Formulary to Reduce Pediatric Medication Dosing Errors: A Mixed Methods Study	4
Community Interventions for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Resource-Limited Settings: A Scoping Review Across Low, Middle, and High-Income Countries	4
Novel Technologies and Techniques for Prehospital Airway Management: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	4
Quality Management of Prehospital Pediatric Respiratory Distress and Airway Programs: An NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document	4
The Correlation between COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Emergency Medical Services Responses for Time-Sensitive Emergencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Predictors of Transfusion in Trauma and Their Utility in the Prehospital Environment: A Scoping Review	4
EMS Curriculum Should Educate Beyond a Technical Scope of Practice: Position Statement and Resource Document	4
Ketamine Stability over Six Months of Exposure to Moderate and High Temperature Environments	4
EMS Use and Success Rates of Intraosseous Infusion for Pediatric Resuscitations: A Large Regional Health System Experience	4