TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pulmonary Emergencies A1 - Strecker-McGraw, Margaret A1 - Ratcliff, Taylor A2 - Cooney, Derek R. PY - 2016 T2 - Cooney's EMS Medicine AB - There are inconsistent data on the percentage of EMS calls involving pulmonary emergencies. A search of the literature reveals respiratory calls make up approximately 11% to 15% of all EMS requests.1,2 Few publications actually define the types of calls and concomitant demographics of those patients. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, there was an increase in “syndrome surveillance” across the country primarily in an attempt to discover aberrant trends in the incidence of pulmonary disease. Despite attempts to classify the number of disease presentations, including using EMS/9-1-1 call records, the information remains scarce.3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126791869 ER -