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Emergency Medical Services
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The Loyola Emergency Medical Services program provides both online and offline medical direction from the incident scene to the hospital. Loyola University Medical Center is the principal resource hospital in the western suburbs and, generally, receives the region's most critically ill and injured patients. EMS provides for the coordination of pre-hospital care within Region VIII, a busy, state-defined EMS region west of downtown Chicago.

Emergency medicine provides treatment to approximately 49,000 seriously ill and injured patients in the emergency department every year. The acuity level of the approximately 9,000 emergency admissions is among the highest in the country. The 27-bed emergency facility is one of the most advanced in the Midwest and contains specialty-care sections for trauma, cardiac care and pediatrics.

Loyola University Medical Center is designated the regional referral center for radiation injuries by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. The emergency unit is directed by a career emergency physician and is staffed by board-certified physicians who have training and expertise in emergency medicine, as well as internal medicine, pediatrics and surgery. The staff assumes a supervisory and teaching role with respect to medical students and residents from several specialties.

The emergency unit provides a diversity of educational experience, from the common to the complex. The tertiary nature of Loyola's patients provides both residents and students the opportunity to manage a large number of critical illnesses, including major trauma, high-risk obstetrics, unstable cardiac conditions, poisonings and serious childhood illnesses, in addition to more routine cases.

Major Research

The EMS program, in conjunction with the Burn and Shock Trauma Institute, has been successful in receiving state and federal grant funding to evaluate the state of Illinois Trauma Registry, A collaborative program between EMS and the Illinois Department of Public Health aims to improve pediatric care capabilities within the State of Illinois (www.lumc.edu/emsc). Division faculty also have received industry funding to conduct multiple clinical trials that study the effect of investigational drugs on hemorrhage, transfusion and sepsis in trauma patients.

Special Services

• LIFESTAR aeromedical transport

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