National Emergency Resource Group

06/07/2026

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064423012817

06/07/2026

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903127.2023.2252500

Shock after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is often treated with vasopressors. We examined whether infusion of epinephrine versus norepinephrine was associated with prehos...

05/30/2026

Blood transfusion before arrival at a hospital reduces mortality from traumatic hemorrhage and shock. Whether transfusion with whole blood is more beneficial than transfusion with blood components ...

05/30/2026

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05/29/2026

Blood pressure management in trauma is one of the most deceptively complex decisions we make in the emergency department. In the first hour of resuscitation, competing physiologic priorities collide: permissive hypotension may protect clot integrity in hemorrhagic shock, while the brain and spinal c...

05/27/2026

In a PATCH trial secondary study, TXA 1 g bolus + 1 g drip over 8 hrs paradoxically increased complement activation at 24 hours after injury. Delayed increase in complement may reflect the dominant plasminogen activator and raises questions about optimal TXA dosing regimen.

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/abstract/2026/05000/tranexamic_acid_bolus_plus_drip_paradoxically.9.aspx

05/27/2026

05/24/2026

Many of people only set foot in the back of an ambulance on our worst days, but some brave men and women spend most of their lives there.According to the U.S...

05/24/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BQT17AhtG/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Most of us learned COPD as a clean, simple concept in school.

Real life isn’t clean.

COPD patients don’t fit into neat categories. They exist along a spectrum of disease that includes elements of bronchitis, emphysema, and sometimes asthma.

That matters because your treatment should change based on what’s actually driving their distress.

A few reminders worth revisiting:

You’re not curing anything in the field
Your job is reducing work of breathing and improving ventilation
Wheezing is not your endpoint
NIV used early can prevent deterioration

This article does a great job reframing how we think about these patients and why that mental shift matters on scene: https://ow.ly/JEAZ50Z3AFk

05/23/2026

https://www.jems.com/patient-care/blood-to-go-prehospital-blood-transfusion/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAR90zZleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQAAC_NWRvE13NydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR61TbyR57Iw5SJ8Hse43Hn8FcpVSrDHOiG4YoUC45uu0AQ48DIoa2deIPwulg_aem_Ba-28dbZt-e2pQVQhHfZ-w&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=52558982785239&utm_content=52558982784839&utm_term=52558982785039&utm_campaign=52558982785239

Hemorrhagic shock is a leading preventable cause of death in prehospital settings. TacMed Solutions™ offers Blood To Go™, a program to help EMS agencies implement blood product administration efficiently.