News
Jan 11, 2017
A study by UA emergency medicine professor John C. Sakles, MD, on the management of the difficulty airway was featured in Anesthesiology News.
Nov 16, 2016
Cardiac arrest is a leading cause of fatality and long-term disability worldwide. Recent advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), many of which have been pioneered at the University of Arizona, have dramatically improved survival rates around the world.
The Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center (AEMRC) has successfully implemented several strategies that have dramatically increased cardiac arrest survival in the United States, including improving the quality of CPR training and the rate of bystander CPR. Now AEMRC is sharing these strategies with emergency medical leaders in countries like China and India through its innovative International Visiting Scholar Program.
Oct 24, 2016
Emergency medical professionals from all over the world took part in the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center’s latest CPR University, a high-intensity training where participants learned the latest techniques in saving lives.
Oct 24, 2016
New technology and a committed group of educators and innovators in the Department of Emergency Medicine are making continuing education for EMS providers more accessible.
Oct 22, 2016
Two Department of Emergency Medicine faculty members are recipients of the 2016 Vernon and Virginia Furrow Teaching Awards.
Jul 20, 2016
The University of Arizona Department of Emergency Medicine welcomes five new faculty members. All will practice at both Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center South Campus emergency departments.
Jul 13, 2016
The Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center – Tucson was one of 110 sites for a clinical trial on a multicenter randomized trial, the ATACH II, to definitively determine the efficacy of early intensive antihypertensive treatment in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.
Jul 13, 2016
The UA DEM was the first among 18 sites in the U.S. to enroll a patient for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) study “Application of Transcriptional Signatures for Diagnosis of Febrile Infants (BioSigs II).”
Jul 12, 2016
The chances of surviving heat stroke are only 50 percent, says Dr. Sam Keim, so if you must be outdoors, it's critically important to have access to shade or air conditioning.
Jun 30, 2016
The multicenter study showed the time it takes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients to regain consciousness varies widely and is longer than many had thought. Thousands of lives each year across the country could be saved by simply giving cardiac arrest victims more time to awaken in the hospital.