About EM Protocols

AI-powered emergency medicine clinical decision support

What We Do

EM Protocols is a clinical decision support tool built for emergency medicine. It gives physicians, APPs, nurses, and trainees instant, searchable access to their department's clinical protocols alongside the best open-access emergency medicine literature — all in one place, with answers in under two seconds.

Instead of navigating clunky hospital websites or clicking through PDFs during a critical patient encounter, clinicians can ask a plain-language question and get a cited, actionable answer with the relevant flowcharts and algorithms displayed prominently.

How It Works

Protocol Ingestion

Hospitals upload their protocols as PDFs. We extract all text, images, flowcharts, and algorithms automatically.

AI-Powered Search

Google Vertex AI indexes everything. When you ask a question, the most relevant content is retrieved in milliseconds.

Instant Answers

Gemini 2.0 Flash synthesizes a concise, cited answer from the retrieved content — streamed to you in real time.

Visual-First

Flowcharts, algorithms, and protocol diagrams are displayed prominently alongside every answer, with clickable PDF citations.

Who It's For

EM Protocols is designed for healthcare professionals working in emergency medicine:

Emergency Physicians
Advanced Practice Providers (PAs, NPs)
Emergency Department Nurses
Residents and Fellows
Medical Students on EM rotations

Knowledge Sources

Beyond your department's local protocols, EM Protocols searches across the best open-access emergency medicine resources:

WikEM — ~5,000 emergency medicine topic pages
PMC Open Access — ~56,000 peer-reviewed articles from 37 journals spanning emergency medicine, critical care, JAMA family, NEJM, Lancet, and BMJ
LITFL — ~7,900 pages covering EM, critical care, toxicology, and ECG education
REBEL EM — ~1,350 evidence-based EM reviews
ALiEM — ~260 PV clinical reference cards and MEdIC case discussions

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