thegreypilgrim
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It seems like there is a growing movement among EMS physicians and researchers to just cut their losses and bring EMS back to the "scoop and run" method of days gone by. No real interventions...maybe some oxygen and an IV at TKO/KVO but the real intervention is just diesel therapy. As justification for this would be the very real possibility of study after study on EMS practices demonstrating or "interpreted as demonstrating" that pre-hospital ALS confers virtually no effect on overall patient outcomes.
Please don't take this as a rant against evidence-based medicine or research in general. If this is what research ends up indicating (I doubt it, but I don't doubt that some people will interpret it as demonstrating such), then so be it...I guess I'll find another career.
Is this something anybody is afraid will happen?
Or do you see EMS going the other direction and continuing to advance as a profession?
Please don't take this as a rant against evidence-based medicine or research in general. If this is what research ends up indicating (I doubt it, but I don't doubt that some people will interpret it as demonstrating such), then so be it...I guess I'll find another career.
Is this something anybody is afraid will happen?
Or do you see EMS going the other direction and continuing to advance as a profession?