discuss print share

Large Bio ImageKeith Wesley, MD, FACEP

CONNECT WITH Keith Wesley, MD, FACEP

Facebook Large Icon

Keith Wesley, MD, FACEP

Keith Wesley is a board-certified emergency medicine physician living in Wisconsin. Originally from Tyler, Texas, he graduated from Brigham Young University in 1982 and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1986. He completed an Emergency Medicine Residency at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, where he gained his first exposure to EMS flying air medical missions. Dr. Wesley has been involved in EMS since 1989 working with many services in Wisconsin. In 1992 he was selected by the Governor as a founding member of the Wisconsin State Physician Advisory Committee and served for 12 years, the past four years as chair. In 2006, Dr. Wesley was selected as the Wisconsin State EMS medical director and continues to provide medical oversight to several services throughout Wisconsin. He is also the past Chair of the National Council of State EMS Medical Directors and is active in National Association of EMS Physicians. In 2007 Dr. Wesley became the Minnesota State EMS medical director and medical director for HealthEast Medical Transportation in St. Paul. Dr. Wesley has authored four EMS textbooks and numerous articles and papers on EMS and is a frequent speaker at state and national EMS conferences. Dr. Wesley is the owner of EMS Consulting and Education, which provides on-line educational programs for EMS providers and medical directors, as well as consultative services for EMS delivery and quality improvement. He can be reached at drwesley@emsconsulting.net.

content by Keith Wesley, MD, FACEP

Also On Jems Thumb

Are Fentanyl & Morphine Equals?

Read what our experts say about the latest prehospital pain management study.


Also On Jems Thumb

The Effect of Intubation on CPR

This study's results on the effect of intubation on CPR interests our reviewers; but for slightly different reasons.


Buying Time: Making the case for pacing a hypoperfusive DNR patient

A case of an obese patient who can't receive the necessary medications raises questions about the use of transcutaneous pacing to sustain a patient until medications have time to work, and the ethics of using this method on someone with a potential DNR status.


Also On Jems Thumb

Stop EMS Providers from Spreading the Flu

Only 21% of EMS personnel in one EMS system received flu vaccines. That means the other 79% potentially spread the influenza virus to patients.


Also On Jems Thumb

Is CPAP the Standard of Care?

With the publication of this study, Dr. Wesley will officially go on the record saying, "CPAP is the prehospital standard of care for patients in respiratory distress."


discuss print share

Product Connect

1 of 22

Featured Careers & Jobs in EMS


Get JEMS in Your Inbox

 

Fire EMS Blogs


Blogger Browser

 

EMS Airway Clinic

Innovation & Progress

Follow in the footsteps of these inspirational leaders of EMS.
More >

Multimedia Thumb

Worker Rescued From Maryland Parking Garage Collapse

Victim was buried for four hours under a 55,000-pound slab.
Watch It >


Multimedia Thumb

Pa. EMT Dies in the Line of Duty

EMT Tom Gruen was killed in the line of duty.
Watch It >


Multimedia Thumb

Parking Garage Collapses at Maryland Shopping Mall

“Extended extrication” being done for a person pinned under a key section.
Watch It >


Multimedia Thumb

Search Continues for Child in Minnesota Landslide

One child killed, two injured when gravel gives way at popular park.
Watch It >


Multimedia Thumb

Minnesota Park Landslide

One child dead, two injured and a fourth is missing during field trip tragedy.
More >


Multimedia Thumb

Day 6 in Pictures: Ambulance Leadership Forum

The Ambulance Leadership Forum in Warwickshire, England.
More >


Multimedia Thumb

Field Bridge Xpress ePCR on iPad, Android, Kindle Fire

Sneak peek of customizable run forms & more.
Watch It >


Multimedia Thumb

Braun Ambulances' EZ Door Forward

Helps to create a safer ambulance module.
Watch It >


Multimedia Thumb

VividTrac offered by Vivid Medical - EMS Today 2013

VividTrac, affordable high performance video intubation device.
Watch It >


More Product Videos >