Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH – Site investigator and co-founder, EMSHOCKNET
Ryan Arnold, MD – Site investigator
Cooper University Hospital is the core teaching hospital of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden and is the leading provider of comprehensive health services, medical education, and clinical research in southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley. The hospital serves as southern New Jersey’s major tertiary care referral hospital for specialized services including (among others): critical care, trauma (Level I Southern New Jersey Regional Trauma Center), and cardiovascular disease (Cooper Heart Institute). Cooper is the critical care provider to the region’s most seriously ill and injured. More than 40 percent of inter-hospital transfers from South Jersey are directed to Cooper’s critical care services.
Alan E. Jones, MD – Site investigator and co-founder, EMSHOCKNET.
Delivery of excellent emergency medical care is our highest priority and the motivation for all of the other activities that we undertake. Carolinas Medical Center serves Mecklenburg County and 16 surrounding counties in North and South Carolina. It is the flagship of a network that includes acute care facilities, subacute facilities, and clinics in North and South Carolina. The Emergency Department at Carolinas Medical Center manages over 114,000 patients each year or about 300-320 patients per day.
The Medical Center has been designated as the Level 1 regional trauma center and is the referral hospital for the Carolinas Heart Emergency Network. The emergency department features an unusually diverse mix of patient care opportunities including 30% medical, 27% surgical / traumatic, 25% pediatric, 15% obstetrical-gynecological, and 3% psychiatric and toxicological illness. Two to five board certified emergency medicine faculty are present in the open areas 24 hours a day. Within the department is an eight-bed 24 hour observation unit.
Nathan I. Shapiro, MD, MPH – Site investigator and co-founder, EMSHOCKNET.
BIDMC, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is internationally recognized for excellence in patient care, biomedical research, teaching, and community service. It is a Level I Trauma Center and a major adult tertiary referral center for New England, as well as being the primary hospital for the surrounding communities. The Emergency Department at Beth Israel Deaconess manages approximately 50,000 patients each year, with a 30% hospital admission rate, and 7% intensive care unit admission rate.