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In case anyone was curious... http://newsroom.heart.org/news/ambulance-magnesium-treatment-fails-to-improve-stroke-outcome February 13, 2014 Study Highlights: Giving magnesium to stroke patients in an ambulance soon after symptoms began did not reduce the severity of disability...

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Strep throat is not an emergency. So, why did you go the ED? Based on what you have said, you should have been turned away and referred to your kids pediatrician. Lawyers, the fact that many people do not have PCPs, and the fact that it is difficult to determine "emergent" or "in need of...

Where I did my ride-time, the practice was to have patients drink D50 from the vial. I don't remember it being specified in the protocols, but it was done all the time. aksfjkjfb;df.

Have you missed some aricept doses? What you're describing, generally exists in many EDs. Triage, fast-track, and areas with different names (e.g. "zones", "pods", "cores", etc.) for intermediate and high-acuity patients. Most EDs have dedicated resuscitation bays and some now have critical...

Where I used to work, it varied by town/city. Some places would not routinely send police unless a crime suspected and others would send police on every 911 call. Many places had officers trained at the EMT level, and embarrassingly there were some towns where the police were more competent...

Apparently the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium is planning to do a RCT of SGA vs. ETI if they can continue to get funding. https://roc.uwctc.org/tiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=15674 “ROC AIRWAY” Primary Endotracheal Intuation vs. Supraglottic Airway (SGA) insertion. "The objective...

Resuscitation. 2014 Feb 18. pii: S0300-9572(14)00093-8. Airway management and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcome in the CARES registry. McMullan J1, Gerecht R2, Bonomo J2, Robb R3, McNally B3, Donnelly J4, Wang HE4; On behalf of the CARES Surveillance Group. Abstract BACKGROUND...

It's going to vary from place to place and how you define "emergency". To be honest, I don't think there is any specific research that has attempted to quantify the proportion of EMS calls that are "emergencies". There has been a number of studies looking at dispatching criteria and its...