Care of the Operational Canine in the Prehospital Environment – A Joint Position Statement and Resource Document of NAEMSP, NAVEMS, and VetCOT
NAEMSP, NAVEMS, and VetCOT recommend:Operational canines injured in the line of duty should receive the highest level of resuscitative care, as close to the point of injury as possible, even without trained and licensed veterinary personnel.Established veterinary and EMS organizations should:Create collaboratively-developed consensus-based guidelines, aligned with the EMS clinician's scope of practice, for providing prehospital preveterinary care of ill or injured operational canines.Support advocacy for legislation and policy development to ensure that prehospital preveterinary care is more readily available to operational canines.Promote increased awareness of the needs and challenges hindering prehospital preveterinary care for ill or injured operational canines.
Authors
- Kelly E. Hall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5399-932X)
- Richard D. Maricle
- E. Shelley Hwang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7973-8822)
- Kate D. Zimmerman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7673-7823)
- Lee E. Palmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3849-1736)
- Jonathan D. Shecter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3313-7134)
- Rama Heyratifar
- Rita M. Hanel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2814-1003)
- Allen Yee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1532-5790)
- Kevin F. Jura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3257-9585)
Institutions
- Tulane University (US)
- Tufts University (US)
- Maine Medical Center (US)
- Emory University (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Hadassah Medical Center (IL)
- MaineHealth (US)
- Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office (US)
- Auburn University (US)
- Colorado State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Prehospital Emergency Care
- Published
- 2025-06-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10903127.2025.2526718
- Primary Topic
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00