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Out-Of-Hospital Research in the Urban Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Paul E. Pepe
Paul E. Pepe*
Affiliation:
Center for Resuscitation and City of Houston EMS, Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Tex.
*
City of Houston, Center for Resuscitation and EMS, 410 Bagby, Suite 300, Houston, TX 77002-1595, USA
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The urban prehospital setting is one of the best venues in which to examine life-saving resuscitation interventions. When the entire catchment of the urban emergency medical services (EMS) system is used, large-population patient studies can be generated. Certain unique features give several urban centers the ability to conduct clinical trials in the out-of-hospital setting. Without resuscitation at the scene, it is rare for cardiac arrest patients to survive. In the case of trauma resuscitation, prehospital care can impact outcome significantly. Since coronary artery disease and trauma kill nearly one-million persons annually in the United States, prehospital care research is a worthwhile endeavor. This rationale for prehospital care research is strengthened by the relatively high potential for full recovery.

Keywords

Clinical TrialsCardiopulmonary ResuscitationTraumaResearchPrehospitalEmergency Medical ServicesParamedics
Type
Research Article
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 8 , supplement S1: Research in Prehospital Care Systems , March 1993 , pp. S20 - S24
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1993

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