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10/25/2026

Our WashU EMS fellows, Drs. Bryce Lord and Kenneth Holton, recently traveled to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, to help provide medical coverage for the IRONMAN World Championship.

Working alongside the event’s medical team gave our fellows an opportunity to learn about the clinical and operational demands of covering a major international endurance event.

Core skills for an EMS physician include caring for patients outside the hospital, anticipating medical needs, coordinating resources, and communicating across teams. Mass gathering medicine brings those skills together, giving fellows practical experience with both patient care and the planning and teamwork that support it.

Thank you to Dr. Erin Kane for helping organize this opportunity, and to the IRONMAN medical team and volunteers for welcoming our fellows and supporting their education.

10/21/2026

WashU EMS faculty Dr. Joseph Finney, assistant professor of pediatrics, and Dr. Jeffrey Siegler, associate professor of emergency medicine, are featured in Inside WashU Medicine alongside Fahd Ahmad, MD, professor of pediatrics, for their research on pediatric breathing support.

Their study, published in Pediatrics, examined how real-time feedback can help EMS clinicians deliver breaths with a bag-mask device. In simulations involving 123 paramedics and EMTs across five agencies, feedback improved the amount of air delivered, breathing rate, and mask seal.

These findings offer a promising direction for training in a skill that is critical when caring for a child who cannot breathe adequately.

Congratulations to Drs. Finney, Siegler, and Ahmad, and thank you to the EMS clinicians, agency partners, and research team who made this work possible!

Read the WashU Medicine feature:

WashU Medicine researchers found a feedback tool helps paramedics deliver better manual breathing support in a study that aims to help children who aren’t breathing.

10/20/2026

Northeast Firefighter-Paramedics recently put their training in STEMI recognition into practice while caring for a patient experiencing a cardiac emergency. The patient made a full recovery and later joined our own Dr. Bridgette Svancarek, EMS physician and Division Chief of EMS at WashU School of Medicine, to share his experience with our Department of Emergency Medicine residency conference at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

As Northeast’s medical director, one of Dr. Svancarek’s roles is to provide continuing education for the district’s crews. We’re grateful for the opportunity to learn alongside our agency partners and bring those experiences into physician education. Thank you to the Northeast team and the patient for sharing this story.

10/17/2026

Are you a medical student interested in EMS? Come spend a rotation with WashU EMS!

EMS is a board-certified subspecialty of emergency medicine with its own distinct practice: caring for patients outside the walls of a hospital and building the systems that make that care possible.

From everyday 911 calls to disaster response, field hospitals, urban search and rescue, and tactical medicine, EMS brings medicine to patients wherever they need it.

Our visiting medical student EMS rotation offers a chance to work alongside EMS physicians and our prehospital partners and explore this side of medicine firsthand.

Visiting student information and applications:
https://md.wustl.edu/curriculum/visiting-students/

Interested or have questions about the rotation? Reach out to EMS Clerkship Director Dr. DeFilippo at [email protected].

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10/16/2026

A well-deserved recognition for some outstanding EMS teams today!

Congratulations to Abbott EMS - St. Louis, MO, Christian Hospital EMS, Northeast Fire and Ambulance, and Warren County Ambulance District on their recognition at the East Central Region Life Saving Awards.

Our partner agencies received five of the ten awards presented across eight counties. That’s a tremendous accomplishment and speaks to the work these clinicians are doing for their communities.

These teams went above and beyond during critical patient resuscitations, bringing preparation, clinical judgment, and teamwork to moments when patients needed them most.

As medical directors and EMS physicians, we are proud to work alongside you and thrilled to see your work celebrated. Congratulations to everyone recognized today!

10/09/2026

Our docs make house calls. This house just happens to have ice. 🏒🚑

Did you know your WashU EMS physicians provide emergency care for the St. Louis Blues?

Dr. Jeffrey Siegler is rinkside tonight! He’s also presented nationally on the EMS physician’s role in the NHL, sharing the preparation behind game-day emergency care.

Swipe for the practice behind the puck drop: physicians, EMS clinicians, and hockey medical staff training together for game-day emergencies.

We’ll leave the hat tricks to the players. Here’s hoping our equipment stays on the bench. 💙💛

LET’S GO BLUES!

10/02/2026

EMS clinicians meet people in some of their most difficult moments. The demands of that work can follow them beyond the end of a shift, affecting their health, relationships, and lives outside the ambulance. They deserve a profession that takes their mental health seriously and makes meaningful support a priority.

As EMS physicians, that responsibility is part of caring for our teams and agencies.

We're proud to share Dr. Bridgette Svancarek, Division Chief for EMS at WashU School of Medicine, helped coauthor “Supporting Mental Health in EMS Clinicians: A NAEMSP Position Statement and Resource Document,” published in Prehospital Emergency Care.

NAEMSP position statements help set national standards for EMS practice and policy. Contributing to this work means helping shape how our profession cares for its own, and a proud moment for our division.

Read the paper: https://doi.org/10.1080/10903127.2026.2740139

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