Peter P. Taillac
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Peter P. Taillac, MD

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Clinical Locations

University of Utah Hospital

Emergency Medicine
Salt Lake City
801-581-2292
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  • Dr. Taillac is an emergency physician who focuses on treatment of emergent conditions at University Hospital. He is a member of the teaching faculty at the University and educates resident physicians and medical students.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
    American Board of Emergency Medicine (Sub: Emergency Medical Services)

  • Dr. Taillac is an emergency physician who focuses on treatment of emergent conditions at University Hospital. He is a member of the teaching faculty at the University and educates resident physicians and medical students.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Eccles Health Library -Professor (Clinical)
    Board Certification
    American Board of Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
    American Board of Emergency Medicine (Sub: Emergency Medical Services)

    Education history

    Residency Emergency Medicine - Brooke Army Medical Center Resident
    Residency Surgery - Letterman Army Medical Center Resident
    Preceptorship Neurosurgery - Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Preceptorship
    Internship Surgery - Letterman Army Medical Center Intern
    Professional Medical Medicine - Tulane University M.D.
    Undergraduate Biology - Loyola University B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Peltan ID, Rahmati K, Bledsoe JR, Yoneoka Y, Alvarez F, Plendl M, Taillac PP, Youngquist ST, Samore MM, Hough CL, Brown SM (2025). Performance Evaluation of Prehospital Sepsis Prediction Models. Crit Care Med. (Read full article)
    2. Rahmati K, Brown SM, Bledsoe JR, Passey P, Taillac PP, Youngquist ST, Samore MM, Hough CL, Peltan ID (2024). Validation and comparison of triage-based screening strategies for sepsis. Am J Emerg Med, 85, 140-147. (Read full article)
    3. Majersik JJ, Wong KH, ODonnell SM, Johnson J, Garcia-Esperon C, Hamilton BJ, Tekiela P, Ledyard HK, Taillac P (2023). Telestroke value through the eyes of emergency medicine providers: A counterfactual analysis. Heliyon, 9(4), e14767. (Read full article)
    4. Lindbeck G, Shah MI, Braithwaite S, Powell JR, Panchal AR, Browne LR, Lang ES, Burton B, Coughenour J, Crowe RP, Degn H, Hedges M, Gasper J, Guild K, Mattera C, Nasca S, Taillac P, Warth M (2022). Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prehospital Pain Management: Recommendations. Prehosp Emerg Care, 27(2), 144-153. (Read full article)
    5. Williams K, Lang ES, Panchal AR, Gasper JJ, Taillac P, Gouda J, Lyng JW, Goodloe JM, Hedges M (2019). Evidence-Based Guidelines for EMS Administration of Naloxone. Prehosp Emerg Care, 23(6), 749-763. (Read full article)
    6. Williams K, Lang ES, Panchal AR, Gasper JJ, Taillac P, Gouda J, Lyng JW, Goodloe JM, Hedges M (2019). Evidence-Based Guidelines for EMS Administration of Naloxone. Prehosp Emerg Care, 1-15.
    7. Adelgais KM, Sholl JM, Alter R, Gurley KL, Broadwater-Hollifield C, Taillac P (2018). Challenges in Statewide Implementation of a Prehospital Evidence-Based Guideline: An Assessment of Barriers and Enablers in Five States. Prehosp Emerg Care, 23(2), 167-178. (Read full article)
    8. Hewes HA, Dai M, Mann NC, Baca T, Taillac P (2017). Prehospital Pain Management: Disparity By Age and Race. Prehosp Emerg Care, 22(2), 189-197. (Read full article)
    9. Taillac P, Bolleter S, Heightman AJ (2017). Wound Packing 101: Hemorrhage Control When it's More than Skin Deep. JEMS, 42(4), 40-45.
    10. Millin MG, Johnson DE, Schimelpfenig T, Conover K, Sholl M, Busko J, Alter R, Smith W, Symonds J, Taillac P, Hawkins SC (2017). Medical Oversight, Educational Core Content, and Proposed Scopes of Practice of Wilderness EMS Providers: A Joint Project Developed by Wilderness EMS Educators, Medical Directors, and Regulators Using a Delphi Approach. Prehosp Emerg Care, 21(6), 673-681. (Read full article)
    11. Hewes HA, Christensen M, Taillac PP, Mann NC, Jacobsen KK, Fenton SJ (2017). Consequences of pediatric undertriage and overtriage in a statewide trauma system. J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 83(4), 662-667. (Read full article)
    12. Calhoun AW, Sutton ERH, Barbee AP, McClure B, Bohnert C, Forest R, Taillac P, Fallat ME (2017). Compassionate Options for Pediatric EMS (COPE): Addressing Communication Skills. Prehosp Emerg Care, 21(3), 334-343. (Read full article)
    13. Taillac P, Bolleter S, Heightman AJ (2017). Wound Packing 101: Hemorrhage control when it's more than skin deep. JEMS, 42(4), 40-5. (Read full article)
    14. Youngquist ST, Ockerse P, Hartsell S, Stratford C, Taillac P (2016). Mechanical chest compression devices are associated with poor neurological survival in a statewide registry: A propensity score analysis. Resuscitation, 106, 102-7. (Read full article)
    15. Clawson JJ, Scott G, Gardett I, Youngquist S, Taillac P, Fivaz C, Olola C (2016). Predictive Ability of an Emergency Medical Dispatch Stroke Diagnostic Tool in Identifying Hospital-Confirmed Strokes. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis, 25(8), 2031-42. (Read full article)
    16. Hewes H, Hunsaker S, Christensen M, Whitney J, Dalrymple T, Taillac P (2015). Documentation of pediatric vital signs by EMS providers over time. J Pediatr Surg, 51(2), 329-32. (Read full article)
    17. Taillac P (2015). Treatment Options for Hypoglycemia: Should It Be Gluca-gone? EMS World, 44(7), 42, 44. (Read full article)
    18. Taillac PP (2015). Stop the bleeding. New external hemorrhage control evidence-based guideline. JEMS, Suppl, 18-21. (Read full article)
    19. Duncan J, Taillac P, Nangle B, Henry M, Houston J, Talebreza S, Finch L, Brunker C, Rajeev D, Smith HJ, North C (2013). Electronic end-of-life care registry: the Utah ePOLST initiative. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2013, 345-53. (Read full article)
    20. Teri L Sanddal, Thomas J Esposito, Jolene R Whitney, Diane Hartford, Peter P Taillac, N Clay Mann, Nels D Sanddal (2011). Analysis of Preventable Deaths and Opportunities for Trauma Care Improvement in Utah. J Trauma, 70(4), 970-977.
    21. Cunningham CA, Wesley K, Peterson TD, Alcorta R, Kupas DF, Nelson JA, Taillac P, Upchurch J (2010). The role of state medical direction in the comprehensive emergency medical services system: a resource document. Prehosp Emerg Care, 14(3), 404-11. (Read full article)
    22. Cunningham C, Wesley K, Peterson T, Alcorta R, Kupas D, Nelson J, Taillac P, Upchurch J (2010). The Role of State Medical Direction in the Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services System: A Resource Document. Prehosp Emerg Care, 14, 404.
    23. Shaeffer Z, Gohdes D, Legler J, Taillac P, Larsen B (2009). Monitoring prehospital stroke care in Utah to assess the feasibility of using EMS data for surveillance. Prev Chronic Dis, 6(4), A137. (Read full article)
    24. Shaeffer Z, Gohdes D, Legler J, Taillac P, Larsen B (2009). Monitoring prehospital stroke care in Utah to assess the feasibility of using EMS data for surveillance. Prev Chronic Dis, 6(4), A137.
    25. Taillac, PP and Doyle, GS (2008). "Tourniquet First!" Safe and Rational Protocols for Prehospital Tourniquet Use. JEMS, 2008(Oct Supp), 24-27.
    26. Doyle, Gerard S and Taillac, Peter P (2008). Tourniquets: A Review of Current Use with Proposals for Expanded Prehospital Use. Prehosp Emerg Care, 12(2), 241-256.
    27. OConnor RE, Cone DC, De Lorenzo RA, Domeier RM, Moore WE, Taillac PP, Verdile VP, Zachariah BS, Davidson SJ (1999). EMS systems: foundations for the future. Acad Emerg Med, 6(1), 46-53. (Read full article)

    Review

    1. Jauch EC, Schwamm LH, Panagos PD, Barbazzeni J, Dickson R, Dunne R, Foley J, Fraser JF, Lassers G, Martin-Gill C, OBrien S, Pinchalk M, Prabhakaran S, Richards CT, Taillac P, Tsai AW, Yallapragada A, Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conference (2021). Recommendations for Regional Stroke Destination Plans in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities From the Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conference: A Consensus Statement From the American Academy of Neurology, American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, American Society of Neuroradiology, National Association of EMS Physicians, National Association of State EMS Officials, Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery, and Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology: Endorsed by the Neurocritical Care Society. [Review]. Stroke, 52(5), e133-e152. (Read full article)
    2. Bulger EM, Snyder D, Schoelles K, Gotschall C, Dawson D, Lang E, Sanddal ND, Butler FK, Fallat M, Taillac P, White L, Salomone JP, Seifarth W, Betzner MJ, Johannigman J, McSwain N Jr (2014). An evidence-based prehospital guideline for external hemorrhage control: American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. [Review]. Prehosp Emerg Care, 18(2), 163-73. (Read full article)
    3. Taillac P, Brocato C (2013). Vital pathways: detect & treat symptoms related to hemorrhagic shock. [Review]. JEMS, 37(10), 64-70. (Read full article)

    Book Chapter

    1. Taillac, P, Bretz, S (2008). Molluscum Contagiosum. In Kardon, E; Talavera, F; Fourre, M; Halamka, J; Dyne, P (Eds.), EMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base. EMedicine.

    Conference Proceedings

    1. Pepe P, Zachariah B, Taillac P, Curka P, Wall M, Brandt M, Mattox K (1992). The Epidemiology, Demography, Nature and Severity of Juvenile Gunshot Wounds in a Large Municipality. Proceedings of the national Conference on Pediatric Trauma.

    Abstract

    1. Shirk T, Fuller F, Taillac P, OBrien J (1996). Comparison of the Esophageal-Tracheal Combitube and Endotracheal Intubation in the Out-of-Hospital Management of Cardiac Arrest [Abstract]. Prehosp Disaster Med, 11, S52.
    2. Taillac P, Pepe P, Zachariah B, Curka P (1992). Epidemology, Type, and Severity of Pediatric Gunshot Wounds in a Large Urban Center [Abstract]. Ann Emerg Med, 21, 1045.