UMBC Emergency Health Services Department
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The Department of Emergency Health Services offers a unique opportunity for the education of future Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Public Health, and Emergency Management professionals. This is accomplished by providing a broad liberal-arts and sciences education which enhances the graduate employment opportunities as pre-hospital providers, policy makers, and managers.The Department of Emergency Health Services also provides a cutting edge education for advancement to graduate, medical, and professional studies. The Graduate program is primarily focused on preparing professionals for leadership roles in Disaster Health, Emergency Public Health and Policy Development. The two-track curriculum is designed to provide graduate level training and education to health care providers, researchers, educators, policy makers, and administrators. An Education concentration can be combined with either track. A post-baccalaureate certificate in Emergency Management is also offered. As of Fall 2017, in conjunction with the Department of Public Policy, we now offer a Ph.D. program with concentrations in Emergency Health and Emergency Management.
Recent Submissions
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Trends in U.S. Burden of Clostridioides difficile Infection and Outcomes
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2020-04-02)BACKGROUND Efforts to prevent Clostridioides difficile infection continue to expand across the health care spectrum in the United States. Whether these efforts are reducing the national burden of C. difficile infection ... -
Documentation of acute change in mental status in nursing homes highlights opportunity to augment infection surveillance criteria
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-04-28)Acute change in mental status (ACMS), defined by the Confusion Assessment Method, is used to identify infections in nursing home residents. A medical record review revealed that none of 15,276 residents had an ACMS documented. ... -
Assessment of Health Care Exposures and Outcomes in Adult Patients With Sepsis and Septic Shock
(JAMA, 2020-07-07)Importance Current information on the characteristics of patients who develop sepsis may help in identifying opportunities to improve outcomes. Most recent studies of sepsis epidemiology have focused on changes in incidence ... -
Colistin Heteroresistance Is Largely Undetected among Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales in the United States
(ASM, 2021-01-26)Heteroresistance is a form of antibiotic resistance where a bacterial strain is comprised of a minor resistant subpopulation and a majority susceptible subpopulation. We showed previously that colistin heteroresistance can ... -
Practices and activities among healthcare personnel with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection working in different healthcare settings—ten Emerging Infections Program sites, April–November 2020
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-06-02)Healthcare personnel with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection were interviewed to describe activities and practices in and outside the workplace. Among 2,625 healthcare personnel, workplace-related ... -
Molecular Characterization of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Collected in the United States
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2022-04-18)Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) are a growing public health concern due to resistance to multiple antibiotics and potential to cause health care-associated infections with high mortality. Carbapenemase-producing ... -
Establishing Consensus‐based Objectives for the Creation of an Opioid Overdose Curriculum for Emergency Medical Services Clinicians
(Wiley, 2020-07-26)Objectives Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic and are often the first health care personnel system to contact patients experiencing opioid toxicity. Although national ... -
Defining a Research Agenda for Layperson Prehospital Hemorrhage Control A Consensus Statement
(JAMA, 2020-07-06)Importance Trauma is the leading cause of death for US individuals younger than 45 years, and uncontrolled hemorrhage is a major cause of trauma mortality. The US military’s medical advancements in the field of prehospital ... -
Emergency Clinician Experiences Using a Standardized Communication Tool for Cardiac
(cureus, 2020-08-15)Introduction Sudden cardiac arrest remains a common and critical disease burden. As post-cardiac arrest care grows in complexity, communication between pre-hospital providers, emergency department personnel, and hospital ... -
Occupational Injury Claims Related to Patient Lifting and Moving in a Safety-Oriented Emergency Medical Services Agency
(cureus, 2020-09-12)Background: Patient lifting injuries remain a significant hazard to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers despite preventative and mitigative strategies. Objective: To better characterize the nature of occupational ... -
Implementing a Statewide Prehospital Sepsis Protocol: Perspectives of Emergency Medical Services Medical Directors
(cureus, 2020-10-03)Background Sepsis is a medical emergency that requires prompt recognition and treatment. Multiple Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies across the United States have implemented sepsis protocols. In 2016, Maryland ... -
A Longitudinal Analysis of a Law Enforcement Intranasal Naloxone Training Program
(cureus, 2020-11-03)Introduction: The opioid crisis continues to claim lives at historically unprecedented levels and shows few signs of abating. One means of mitigating the harm from opioid abuse and unintentional overdose is training and ... -
Potentially survivable fatal vascular access hemorrhage with tourniquet use: A post-mortem analysis
(Wiley, 2020-08-17)Background The US military has prioritized battlefield hemorrhage control. Researchers credit tourniquet use, and a novel trauma care training program, with saving 1000–2000 lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Stop the ... -
Tourniquet Use in Animal Attacks: An Analysis of News Media Reports
(cureus, 2021-03-16)Background Animal attacks pose a significant public health problem in the United States. Non-venomous animals are the leading cause of mortality in these attacks, and extremity injuries leading to hemorrhage are a common ... -
Laryngeal Injury and Upper Airway Symptoms after Endotracheal Intubation During Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(IARS, 2021-04-01)Laryngeal injury from intubation can substantially impact airway, voice, and swallowing, thus necessitating multidisciplinary interventions. The goals of this systematic review were: (1) to review the types of laryngeal ... -
Decision Making and Interventions During Interfacility Transport of High-Acuity Patients With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection
(Elsevier, 2021-04-05)Objective There are limited data regarding the typical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients requiring interfacility transport or the clinical capabilities of the out-of-hospital transport ... -
Creating a Pediatric Prehospital Destination Decision Tool Using a Modified Delphi Method
(MDPI, 2021-07-29)Decisions for patient transport by emergency medical services (EMS) are individualized; while established guidelines help direct adult patients to specialty hospitals, no such pediatric equivalents are in wide use. When ... -
Diaper Need During the COVID-19 Pandemic Associated with Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Chronic Illness: An Analysis of a Representative State Sample of Caretakers with Young Children
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2022-03-01)Objectives: Diaper need is an important form of material hardship for families with young children. This study quantified diaper need during the COVID-19 pandemic and examined factors associated with diaper need. Methods: ... -
The potential of psychological connectedness: Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 through sense of community and community resilience
(Wiley, 2021-12-16)The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of relationships connecting sense of community (SOC) and community resilience with psychological wellbeing, via the mediation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) ...
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