2025 ESO EMS Index
Insights and best practices for EMS professionals
Every patient deserves timely, high-quality care – but data shows gaps still exist.
The 2025 ESO EMS Index offers a national snapshot of care trends and disparities, drawing from over 12.5 million 911 records across 3,039 agencies in 2024. It’s designed to help EMS professionals benchmark performance, identify challenges, and spark conversations around equitable care and better patient outcomes.
The 2025 ESO EMS spotlights some of the most pressing issues in prehospital care today, including:
- What best practices can my organization implement to measure and address inequities in analgesic administration? Â
- How do we compare to our peers in our response to patients with opioid use disorder? Â
- Are we consistently confirming and documenting invasive airway placements using waveform capnography? Â
- Are we appropriately recognizing and treating hypertension and postpartum hemorrhage in pregnant and postpartum patients? Â
- Should our agency adopt or expand a whole blood program to improve outcomes for patients with life-threatening hemorrhage? Â
- How can we better prepare to assess and manage behavioral health and substance use emergencies in pediatric patients? Â
- What strategies can we implement to identify and support high-utilization patients? How can we reduce repeat EMS activations and improve outcomes?Â
Whether you want to benchmark your agency’s performance, explore disparities in care, or spark new quality improvement initiatives, this data is your launchpad.
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Interested in seeing how the data from the 2025 ESO EMS Index translates into practical solutions for your agency?