Sunday Silliness: medically non-medical companies edition

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This is the company that installed (and recently fixed) our garage door.  I’m not trying to plug them (although they did a good job at a decent price), but the Flash intro is hysterical.

Where you go to die

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If they aren’t going to live, why are you taking them to the hospital?

Almost in the clear

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Timing is everything.

Giving the 411

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New research into communications between EMS providers and ED providers is flawed, but occasionally amusing.

Sunday Silliness: you won’t believe your eyes edition

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Mighty Optical Illusions is, as you’d expect from the name, a website devoted to optical illusions; some of them are pretty interesting (and, admittedly, some aren’t).  If you’re lucky, you’ll stumble across one that’s even related to medicine.

Illustrating differences

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Everyone knows that doctors aren’t medics and vice versa, but sometimes, you get smacked in the face by the differences.

Gasping for fresh air

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Reason number 17,653 not to use nitrous oxide as a prehospital painkiller.

When sucking up, suck up to everybody

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A random note on why it pays to be nice to everybody, no matter their position….

Baby, it’s cold inside

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The cold saline bolus for therapeutic hypothermia: helpful or worthless?

Welcome

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Greetings.  In this blog, I intend to cover a number of issues related to EMS and emergency medicine, and particularly the interaction between the two.  My EMS experience has primarily been in situations which had a major gap between providers and medical command; I intend to eliminate or reduce that gap.  I also want to make EMS-related research more [...]