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Tiffany Abramson

Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

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Overview

Tiffany Abramson, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and a member of the EMS division. She is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services.Following undergraduate studies at Harvard University, she obtained her medical degree at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She completed her emergency medicine training at LAC+USC, during which she served as chief resident, and remained on to complete the ACGME-accredited EMS fellowship. Dr. Abramson’s prehospital experiences have contributed to her current research interests and her involvement in event medicine, including being a member of the medical committees for the Special Olympic World Games, the Los Angeles Marathon, and the Pasadena Half Marathon. In addition to her clinical roles, she has authored multiple emergency medicine book chapters and peer reviewed publications. With respect to her research, her interests involve the intersection of resource utilization, health care disparities, and mobile integrated health.

Publications

  • Hurting for Options: Emergency Department Utilization for Chronic Pain in a Safety-Net Hospital. Acad Emerg Med. 2025 Nov; 32(11):1235-1245.. View in PubMed
  • Parental Leave and Lactation Policy for EMS Clinicians – A Position Statement and Resource Document of NAEMSP. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2025 Sep 11; 1-6.. View in PubMed
  • Evaluation of housing status within an EMS-led leave-behind naloxone program: A retrospective analysis. Am J Emerg Med. 2025 Aug; 94:232-234.. View in PubMed
  • Protocol for a scoping review of factors associated with disparities in clinical provision of deep brain stimulation. BMJ Open. 2024 03 21; 14(3):e079601.. View in PubMed
  • Prehospital Care for Persons Experiencing Homelessness: A Cross-Sectional Survey of the Challenges, Experiences, and Perspectives of Operational EMS Agency Medical Directors. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2024; 28(8):998-1005.. View in PubMed
  • Association between a Post-Resuscitation Care Bundle and the Odds of Field Rearrest after Successful Resuscitation from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Pre/Post Study. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2024; 28(1):98-106.. View in PubMed
  • Prehospital Care of Trauma Patients in Los Angeles County During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic. Am Surg. 2023 12; 89(12):6342-6344.. View in PubMed
  • Does Housing Status Matter in Emergency Medical Services Administration of Naloxone? A Prehospital Cross-sectional Study. West J Emerg Med. 2023 09; 24(5):831-838.. View in PubMed
  • Implementation of a regional extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program for refractory ventricular fibrillation out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2023 06; 187:109711.. View in PubMed
  • Utility of Glucose Testing and Treatment of Hypoglycemia in Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2022 Mar-Apr; 26(2):173-178.. View in PubMed
  • Elevated prehospital point-of-care glucose is associated with worse neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resusc Plus. 2022 Mar; 9:100204.. View in PubMed
  • Paramedic Identification of Pediatric Seizures: A Prospective Cohort Study. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2021 Sep-Oct; 25(5):682-688.. View in PubMed
  • Increased Use of Prehospital Tourniquet and Patient Survival: Los Angeles Countywide Study. J Am Coll Surg. 2021 08; 233(2):233-239.e2.. View in PubMed
  • Emergency Medical Services Utilization by Homeless Patients. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2021 May-Jun; 25(3):333-340.. View in PubMed
  • Prime the Line! A Case Report of Air Embolism from a Peripheral IV Line in the Field. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2020 Jul-Aug; 24(4):576-579.. View in PubMed
  • Safety of Tiered-Dispatch for 911 Calls for Abdominal Pain. West J Emerg Med. 2019 Oct 17; 20(6):957-961.. View in PubMed
  • Active Seizures in Children Are Often Subtle and Unrecognized by Prehospital Providers. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2019 Oct; 35(10):e177-e180.. View in PubMed
  • A simple decision rule predicts futile resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2019 09; 142:8-13.. View in PubMed
  • FascIOtomy: Ultrasound Evaluation of an Intraosseous Needle Causing Compartment Syndrome. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2018 Nov; 2(4):323-325.. View in PubMed
  • Describing the evolution of mobile technology usage for Latino patients and comparing findings to national mHealth estimates. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 09; 23(5):979-83.. View in PubMed

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