Agreed. Overseas it was not uncommon to have a patient on fluids in another room, out of sight, while treating other patients and lose track of the exact time to change a bag.
I would spike it, turn it upside down, push the air into the line, flip it back over, purge the line like normal and...
Which patients in the field don't require ALS yet die? So many of these studies have been conducted in big cities within minutes of a major hospital that the whole BLS is superior to ALS has just become hollow sounding in my ears.
Unless someone purchased the study, which I didn't, there is...
First time poster. Thank you for letting me participate.
To the OP. For me there are really only a couple of immediate considerations here.
1) Are we getting end organ perfusion?
2) Is this a cardiac even?
Why do we care if his heart is beating at all? Or adequately? End organ...