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Gathering of Eagles Meeting February 9, 2024: California Wall Time Challenges; Using AI in 9-1-1 Calls; Hypocalcemia in Trauma

Metropolitan EMS Medical Directors Consortium

03/13/2024

The “Gathering of Eagles” group of EMS medical directors from the world's prominent metropolitan systems hosts weekly calls facilitated by Dr. Paul Pepe covering the latest issues of impact to the EMS community. EMS World has been given exclusive access and approval to publish these discussions as a service to our readers.

In this week’s episode, Christopher Colwell discusses wall time challenges in San Francisco; Terence Valenzuela presents on machine learning in identifying cardiac arrests in emergency calls; Donald Jenkins updates the group on new research into hypocalcemia in trauma; Randi Schaefer describes the current status of EMS agencies providing whole blood in the field; and more.

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