Peter P. Taillac
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Peter P. Taillac, MD

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

University of Utah Hospital

Emergency Medicine
50 N Medical Dr
Salt Lake City , UT 84132
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)

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)

Education history

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

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 S (2025). Performance Evaluation of Prehospital Sepsis Prediction Models. Critical care medicine, 53(4), e973-e978.
  2. Rahmati K, Brown SM, Bledsoe JR, Passey P, Taillac PP, Youngquist ST, Samore MM, Hough CL, Peltan I (2024). Validation and comparison of triage-based screening strategies for sepsis. The American journal of emergency medicine, 85, 140-147.
  3. Majersik JJ, Wong KH, O'Donnell SM, Johnson J, Garcia-Esperon C, Hamilton BJ, Tekiela P, Ledyard HK, Taillac (2023). Telestroke value through the eyes of emergency medicine providers: A counterfactual analysis. Heliyon, 9(4), e14767.
  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 (2023). Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prehospital Pain Management: Recommendations. Prehospital emergency care, 27(2), 144-153.
  5. Williams K, Lang ES, Panchal AR, Gasper JJ, Taillac P, Gouda J, Lyng JW, Goodloe JM, Hedges (2019). Evidence-Based Guidelines for EMS Administration of Naloxone. Prehospital emergency care, 1-15.
  6. Williams K, Lang ES, Panchal AR, Gasper JJ, Taillac P, Gouda J, Lyng JW, Goodloe JM, Hedges (2019). Evidence-Based Guidelines for EMS Administration of Naloxone. Prehospital emergency care, 23(6), 749-763.
  7. Adelgais KM, Sholl JM, Alter R, Gurley KL, Broadwater-Hollifield C, Taillac (2019). Challenges in Statewide Implementation of a Prehospital Evidence-Based Guideline: An Assessment of Barriers and Enablers in Five States. Prehospital emergency care, 23(2), 167-178.
  8. Hewes HA, Dai M, Mann NC, Baca T, Taillac (2018). Prehospital Pain Management: Disparity By Age and Race. Prehospital emergency care, 22(2), 189-197.
  9. Taillac P, Bolleter S, Heightman A (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 S (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. Prehospital emergency care, 21(6), 673-681.
  11. Hewes HA, Christensen M, Taillac PP, Mann NC, Jacobsen KK, Fenton S (2017). Consequences of pediatric undertriage and overtriage in a statewide trauma system. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 83(4), 662-667.
  12. Calhoun AW, Sutton ERH, Barbee AP, McClure B, Bohnert C, Forest R, Taillac P, Fallat M (2017). Compassionate Options for Pediatric EMS (COPE): Addressing Communication Skills. Prehospital emergency care, 21(3), 334-343.
  13. Taillac P, Bolleter S, Heightman A (2017). Wound Packing 101: Hemorrhage control when it's more than skin deep. JEMS, 42(4), 40-5.
  14. Youngquist ST, Ockerse P, Hartsell S, Stratford C, Taillac (2016). Mechanical chest compression devices are associated with poor neurological survival in a statewide registry: A propensity score analysis. Resuscitation, 106, 102-7.
  15. Clawson JJ, Scott G, Gardett I, Youngquist S, Taillac P, Fivaz C, Olola (2016). Predictive Ability of an Emergency Medical Dispatch Stroke Diagnostic Tool in Identifying Hospital-Confirmed Strokes. Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases, 25(8), 2031-42.
  16. Hewes H, Hunsaker S, Christensen M, Whitney J, Dalrymple T, Taillac (2016). Documentation of pediatric vital signs by EMS providers over time. Journal of pediatric surgery, 51(2), 329-32.
  17. Taillac (2015). Treatment Options for Hypoglycemia: Should It Be Gluca-gone?. EMS world, 44(7), 42, 44.
  18. Taillac P (2014). Stop the bleeding. New external hemorrhage control evidence-based guideline. JEMS, Suppl, 18-21.
  19. Duncan J, Taillac P, Nangle B, Henry M, Houston J, Talebreza S, Finch L, Brunker C, Rajeev D, Smith HJ, North (2013). Electronic end-of-life care registry: the Utah ePOLST initiative. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2013, 345-53.
  20. Teri L. Sanddal, Thomas J. Esposito, Jolene R. Whitney, Diane Hartford, Peter P. Taillac, N. Clay Mann, Nels D. Sandda (2011). Analysis of Preventable Deaths and Opportunities for Trauma Care Improvement in Utah. The Journal of trauma, 70(4), 970-977.
  21. Cunningham C, Wesley K, Peterson T, Alcorta R, Kupas D, Nelson J, Taillac P, Upchurch (2010). The Role of State Medical Direction in the Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services System: A Resource Document. Prehospital emergency care, 14, 404.
  22. Cunningham CA, Wesley K, Peterson TD, Alcorta R, Kupas DF, Nelson JA, Taillac P, Upchurch (2010). The role of state medical direction in the comprehensive emergency medical services system: a resource document. Prehospital emergency care, 14(3), 404-11.
  23. Shaeffer Z, Gohdes D, Legler J, Taillac P, Larsen (2009). Monitoring prehospital stroke care in Utah to assess the feasibility of using EMS data for surveillance. Preventing chronic disease, 6(4), A137.
  24. Shaeffer Z, Gohdes D, Legler J, Taillac P, Larsen (2009). Monitoring prehospital stroke care in Utah to assess the feasibility of using EMS data for surveillance. Preventing chronic disease, 6(4), A137.
  25. Taillac, PP and Doyle, G (2008). "Tourniquet First!" Safe and Rational Protocols for Prehospital Tourniquet Use. JEMS, 2008(Oct Supp), 24-27.
  26. Doyle, Gerard S and Taillac, Peter (2008). Tourniquets: A Review of Current Use with Proposals for Expanded Prehospital Use. Prehospital emergency care, 12(2), 241-256.
  27. O'Connor RE, Cone DC, De Lorenzo RA, Domeier RM, Moore WE, Taillac PP, Verdile VP, Zachariah BS, Davidson S (1999). EMS systems: foundations for the future. Academic emergency medicine, 6(1), 46-53.

Review

  1. Jauch EC, Schwamm LH, Panagos PD, Barbazzeni J, Dickson R, Dunne R, Foley J, Fraser JF, Lassers G, Martin-Gill C, O'Brien S, Pinchalk M, Prabhakaran S, Richards CT, Taillac P, Tsai AW, Yallapragada A, Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conferenc (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. Stroke, 52(5), e133-e152.
  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 J (2014). An evidence-based prehospital guideline for external hemorrhage control: American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Prehospital emergency care, 18(2), 163-73.
  3. Taillac P, Brocato (2012). Vital pathways: detect & treat symptoms related to hemorrhagic shock. JEMS, 37(10), 64-70.

Book Chapter

  1. Taillac, P, Bretz, (2008). Molluscum Contagiosum.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Pepe P, Zachariah B, Taillac P, Curka P, Wall M, Brandt M, Mattox (1992). The Epidemiology, Demography, Nature and Severity of Juvenile Gunshot Wounds in a Large Municipality.

Abstract

  1. Shirk T, Fuller F, Taillac P, O'Brien (1996). Comparison of the Esophageal-Tracheal Combitube and Endotracheal Intubation in the Out-of-Hospital Management of Cardiac Arrest. 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.