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Keith Wesley, MD, FACEP

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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.

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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.

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.

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."