EMS Research

As part of the EMS track, residents are assigned to one or more EMS agencies based on their interests and serve as an Assistant Medical Director to those agencies. The residents are able to partake in many other opportunities covering EMS operations, education, and disaster management. The track was designed to allow the resident the flexibility to tailor their experience toward their interests.

The residents are mentored by our staff EMS physicians, some who have had significant EMS experience prior to medical school.

For more information on the EMS Scholarly Track, contact Jeff Myers at jwmyers@buffalo.edu.
Click here to view the complete EMS Scholarly Track guidelines.

EMS Research / Projects

Current Activity

Arrival Mode for STEMIs

Effect of Interprofessional Experience on EMR Attitudes Towards Team Care

Paramedic Textbook

ED Delay Study

The Lay Public's Expectations of Prearrival Instructions when Dialing 9-1-1…A Decade Later

Abdominal Pain Above The Navel

Comparison of Transport Time of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services vs. Ground Transport

Traditional Operating Room vs. Cadaver Lab Experience for Paramedic Intubation Training

Does the Second Crew Member Effect HEMS on Scene Time?

Does the Second Crew Member's Training Effect Ambulance On-Scene Time?

Can Citizens Accurately Determine Workable and Non-workable Cardiac Arrests?

ALS vs BLS Study - outcomes of calls that should have gone to a medic but did not

Cervical spine movement during orotracheal intubation in fresh frozen tissue.  Recorded cervical spine movement fluoroscopically; measured vertebral displacement.

2008

Shand D, Myers J, Wander S, Billittier A, Woytash J, Vertes D, Malone J. Effective Catheter Length for Needle Thoracostomy. Academic Emergency Medicine 2008;15(5): Supplement 1, S109.

2006

Myers JW, Williams B: Standing order prehospital analgesic administration: Does practice setting make a difference?  National Association of EMS Physicians, Tucson, AZ, January 19-21, 2006.

Williams B, Myers JW: Medications utilized for prehospital analgesia. National Association of EMS Physicians, Tucson, AZ, January 19-21, 2006.

2005

Lerner EB, Sayre MR, Brice JH, White LJ, Stantin AJ, Billittier AJ, Cloud SD:  Cardiac Arrest Patients Rarely Receive Chest Compressions Prior to Ambulance Arrival Despite the Availability of Pre-Arrival CPR Instructions. Submitted for presentation at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New York, NY; May 2005.