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S/P-EDACS also were benchmarked against nursing gestalt (based on triage to low/high-acuity areas) and emergency physician gestalt (disposition and admitting/discharge diagnoses). There was perfect agreement between S/P-EDACS in this study ( =1.00). Fifteen patients (25.0%) had minor discordances in their absolute S/P-EDACS that did not affect risk stratification. Of these, 11/15 (73.3%) had higher S-EDACS, suggesting S-EDACS is more likely to safely overcall MACE risk. S-EDACS outperformed nursing gestalt, triaging a greater proportion of patients (71.7%vs 35.0%) as low risk without compromising patient safety, and demonstrated similar accuracy as emergency physician gestalt. S-EDACS strongly correlates with P-EDACS with perfect agreement and has potential to be used as a triage tool. S-EDACS strongly correlates with P-EDACS with perfect agreement and has potential to be used as a triage tool. Paramedic students in the US are required to complete clinical placements to gain supervised experience with real patient encounters. Given wide variation in clinical placement practices, an evidence-based approach is needed to guide programs in setting realistic and attainable goals for students. This study's goal was to describe patient encounters and hours logged by paramedic students during clinical placements. A retrospective review of prospectively collected quality assurance data entered by US paramedic students between 2010 and 2014 was conducted. De-identified electronic records entered in the Field Internship Student Data Acquisition Project (FISDAP) Skill Tracker database were included from consenting paramedic students whose records were audited and approved by instructors. Descriptive statistics were calculated. A total of 10,645 students encountered 2,239,027 patients; most encounters occurred in hospital settings (n = 1,311,967, 59%). The median total number of patient encounters per para Health care workers experience an uncertain risk of aerosol exposure during patient oxygenation. To improve our understanding of these risks, we sought to measure aerosol production during various approaches to oxygenation in healthy volunteers in an emergency department. This was a prospective study conducted in an empty patient room in an academic ED. The room was 10 ft. long x 10 ft. wide x 9 ft. tall (total volume 900 ft ) with positive pressure airflow (1 complete turnover of air every 10 minutes). Five oxygenation conditions were used humidified high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) at 3 flow rates [15, 30, and 60 liters per minute (LPM)], non-rebreather mask (NRB) at 1 flow rate (15 LPM), and closed-circuit continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) using the ED ventilator; in all cases a simple procedural mask was used. The NRB and HFNC at 30 LPM maneuvers were also repeated without the procedural mask, and CPAP was applied both with and without a filter. Each subject then sequentially underwent 8 totalrker safety. Emergency departments (ED) are frequently the entryway to the health system for older, more ill patients. Because decisions made in the ED often influence escalation of care both in the ED and after admission, it is important for emergency physicians to understand their patients' goals of care. To determine how well emergency physicians understand their patients' goals of care. This was a prospective survey study of a convenience sample of ED patients 65 years and older presenting between February 18 and March 1, 2019 to an academic center with 77,000 annual visits. If a patient did not have decision-making capacity, a surrogate decision-maker was interviewed when possible. Two sets of surveys were designed, one for patients and one for physicians. The patient survey included questions regarding their goals of care and end-of-life care preferences. The physician survey asked physicians to select which goals