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Treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has evolved in recent years, especially in the prehospital setting. Corey Slovis, MD, FCEP, FACEP, describes the average amount of time saved in most EMS systems with 12-lead ECG transmission or field interpretation and pre-alerts to the cath lab, and the effect that has on the care for STEMI patients.
Dr. Slovis is known for remembering and teaching clinical diagnoses in terms of five and can count them off of one hand. He shares a few of those pearls, such as five clues to detect AMI in your chest pain patients.
He also talks about the Eagles Coalition and how that group is helping shape the future of EMS.
About Dr. Slovis
Corey Slovis, MD, FACP, FACEP, is a professor of emergency medicine and medicine and chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He completed residencies in internal medicine and emergency medicine at Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and is a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and American College of Emergency Physicians. He spent a total of 15 years at Grady Hospital and served as its director of EMS and as the fire surgeon for the city of Atlanta. He now serves as the medical director of the Nashville Fire Department and the NFD Paramedic/EMS Bureau.
Filmed at EMS Today 2009
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