Paramedic research, 16 September 2026

2 new paramedic and prehospital papers from the 16 September 2026 scan.

AI voice assistants in EMS: survey

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine · Cross-sectional · Context only

Multinational survey of 401 EMS clinicians in Germany, Norway and Switzerland exploring how AI-based voice assistance systems could be designed for prehospital care — respondents were technically proficient and already using digital tools mainly for documentation, knowledge access, hospital pre-notification and occupancy checks, with the study mapping requirements, expectations and implementation obstacles rather than testing clinical outcomes.
Mild hypercapnia during ECPR in pigs

Resuscitation Plus · Other · Hypothesis-generating

Porcine refractory-VF arrest model (n=12) testing mild hypercapnia (PaCO2 50-55 mmHg) during ECPR — the hypercapnia group showed higher cerebral glucose (p=0.01) and lower caspase-8 expression, but no significant difference in brain tissue oxygen tension (49.9 vs 36.4 mmHg, p=0.13), intracranial pressure, EEG activity or serum brain-injury biomarkers.