The EMSB Digital Research Library

The Digital Research Library is a searchable, indexed, moderated database of research and literature pertinent to prehospital and emergency medicine. Its mission is to collect empirical studies that provide meaningful information on prehospital treatment, transport, and other operations that comprise EMS service, with a focus on the United States and similar practice environments.

All papers are reviewed by our editorial staff and meta-information is extracted into a table. The table can be searched globally, or sorted (alphabetically or numerically) by any category; in combination this should allow astute users to drill down on desired material. (For example, if interested in large studies addressing spinal immobilization, one might search for “immobilization” and then sort the results in descending order of study size.) The index is updated regularly with older material or newly-published studies, and should be considered a continual work in progress.

Information in the DRL itself aims to be concise, informative, and objective. Further analysis and commentary can be found on the DRL blog, Lit Whisperers.

Go here for more information on using the library

 

Updates

To view newly added material, search for the triple asterisk (***)

[1-14-14] 8 new additions: 3 Cardiac Arrest, 5 misc. (including Trauma, Hematology, Electrocardiography, Patient Assessment, and Respiratory)

[5-13-13] 12 new additions: 6 Cardiac Arrest, 2 Spinal Immobilization, 4 misc. (all Fluid Resuscitation)

[4-18-13] 12 new additions: 6 Cardiac Arrest, 1 Spinal Immobilization, 5 misc. (3 Patient Assessment, 2 Physiology)

[4-9-13] 9 new additions: 9 Cardiac Arrest

[4-2-13] 10 new additions: 5 Cardiac Arrest, 3 Ambulance Operations, 1 Spinal Immobilization, 1 Fluid Resuscitation

[3-26-13] 9 new additions: 3 Cardiac Arrest, 6 Spinal Immobilization

 

Subject Shelves

All papers are initially labeled with a primary topic (e.g. Spinal Immobilization, Cardiac Arrest, etc.) and listed in the miscellaneous index below. Once a particular subject category becomes sufficiently large, however, it is removed from the general index and organized into a separate, subject-specific “shelf.” Click an image to visit its subject shelf.

 

Miscellaneous Index

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