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Shannon Rodriguez is the Associate Director for Pre-Professional and Graduate Study at Skidmore College. After receiving her master’s degree, she spent the next nine years working in higher education and has spent the last five years, partnering with pre-health students to reach their goals. She is also a member of the Health Professions Advising Committee at Skidmore as well as a member of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions.
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Presumptive Diagnosis of Alcohol Intoxication as the Etiology of Altered Mental Status in Collegiate...

Original Research Margaret Dickey, EMT; Kevin Crisp, PhD, EMT -
Altered mental status is a common emergency call at universities, and for collegiate-based EMS providers this chief complaint is frequently found secondary to alcohol intoxication. The results of this research demonstrate evidence that EMTs may presumptively attribute alcohol intoxication as the etiology of AMS, as evidenced by the underutilization of key AMS assessments.

2024 Conference Academic Poster Session Posters

Abstracts - JCEMS & NCEMSF Academic Poster Session JCEMS -
Posters from the Academic Poster Session at the 2024 Annual National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation Conference

Advising Resilient Healthcare Teams

Advice & Practices Marion Miguel Antazo, BHSc, EMR; Marina N. Fonseca, BHSc, EMR; Fezan Khokhar, BSc, EMR; Mellina J. Solomon, EMR -
McMaster University's Emergency First Response Team (EFRT) has curated a multi-step, highly selective hiring process that has led to exemplary retention rates.

Standing Up and Staffing a Covid Vaccine Clinic on a Collegiate Campus

Advice & Practices Stephanie Warrior, EMT; Sun Chu, EMT; Nathan Trauernicht, MPA, BS FPST, CFO, CEMSO, CTO, MIFireE, CA certified Fire Chief #30; Nathaniel Hartinger; Scott Hatcher; Lisa Mills, MD -
The University of California – Davis Fire Department discusses their experience setting an administering an on-campus COVID-19 vaccine clinic.

Opioid and Alcohol Co-Ingestion

Reviews Laurel E. Wong, BS; Kari L. Brown, MS; Andrew N. Farkas, MD -
Although college campuses have historically been regarded as a protective influence against the development of substance use disorders, substance use and misuse have risen to become one of the most widespread public health concerns facing U.S. college campuses in the past decade. This article discusses pertinent pharmacology, clinical presentations, and treatment guidelines for co-ingestion of alcohol and opioids.
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