Gathering of Eagles Meeting January 18, 2022: COVID Hospital Diversions; Event Medicine; Early-dose IM Epinephrine

The “Gathering of Eagles” group of EMS medical directors from the world's prominent metropolitan systems hosts weekly calls facilitated by Dr. Paul Pepe covering the latest issues of impact to the EMS community. EMS World has been given exclusive access and approval to publish these discussions as a service to our readers.

In this week’s episode, Eagles provide COVID updates from around the nation and world; Michael Kaufman describes the current policy of ambulance diversions in Indiana; Sandra Schneider delivers an update from ACEP on ICU capacities and nursing staff; Clayton Kazan discusses event medicine at NFL playoff games; Scott Youngquist presents on the anticipated benefit of early-dose IM epinephrine; Peter Antevy urges caution on the new PALS guidelines and much more.