RT Book, Section A1 Strecker-McGraw, Margaret A1 Ratcliff, Taylor A2 Cooney, Derek R. SR Print(0) ID 1126791869 T1 Pulmonary Emergencies T2 Cooney's EMS Medicine YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071775649 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126791869 RD 2024/03/29 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