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No, definitely not. There is some very promising research being put out about how best to treat OHCA; unfortunately, like many things, it takes a long time for research to transition to every day bedside care. Also, there is a very small group of interested researchers and physicians looking...

The Pink Panther. Slightly dated, but still hilarious.

One of the EMS custom golf carts with a stretcher mount? Because if so, you, sir, have great taste in miniaturized vehicles.

@MikeC Your grasp of operational EMS seems very well established for someone who hasn't worked a day in the field. Based on what have you drawn many of these conclusions?

I feel empty inside. You could hear a string of expletives at my super bowl party, followed by dead silence. You could hear a pin drop.

Why would LE place a hypoglycemic AMS patient on a psych hold? A large component of a psych hold relies on the fact that a person is having a psychiatric emergency, and needs to be stopped from harming themselves or others. Would LE show up to put a stroke AMS patient on a psych hold?

Source?

IMO that is a faulty justification. Sure, he probably would have gotten a tube before the went to the CCL. But, equating the services that two providers in the back of an ambulance can provide with the treatment that a ED can provide is insane. This isn't a knock against paramedics necessarily...

We're going to the Super Bowl!!! RiseUp!

White cloud level 100 reached. I can't remember the last time we got a critically ill patient (not counting sepsis), in a freaking ED.

The largest obstacle I realistically see to doing this DSI is maintaining a good mask seal for however many minutes you going to do it. If anyone saw the accompanying video by Dr.Kovacs (sp?) on Weingart's podcast post with the chest wall cut away so you could see the lung, PEEP seemed to do a...

That's still 10 mL for a 100 kg patient. Where do you inject all that?

Is this a joke post or...?

I don't know why PBCFR is going through all of those steps, to address @TomB post. It would seem much easier to transition a patient to a backboard and then prop the head end of the board up with something. Application time shouldn't equal hands-off time though. Once you have applied the LUCAS...

Ha. Good luck leaving the airport. Although it does seem like we are better prepared than the last 3 times it snowed...

I wholly disagree, especially if you look at the literature that has been emerging in recent years in cardiac arrest resuscitation advances. Plus, trying to coordinate a well-run code is one of the hardest trials of leadership as a paramedic, for a well run code that is.

Lol. My signature.

I feel like pharmacologically speaking, phenyl would be a better choice for push dose pressors due to its quick half life and relatively clean mechanism. I know that it's not an option pre-hospitally for most (all?) of us, but I feel like would be a more appropriate in hospital drug choice.