Too much information

by dr-exmedic

When is a driver not a driver?

Trouble getting it out

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When is a stroke not a stroke? Never.

Watching over my employees

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Since I’m an advocate of open government in general, and especially since Pittsburgh EMS employees are paid in large part by my tax dollars, I like to see people making public documents such as this, which is the full medical director’s investigation into an incident that happened during our big snowstorm a few weeks ago. [...]

Doubling, tripling, quadrupling up

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In yet another effort to figure out optimal crew configuration, a group of researchers comes across an unexpected result.

Fido’s FiO2

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How ready is your service to deliver oxygen to a dog?

Holding the line

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It’s yet another high-quality cardiac arrest trial, but one that won’t change very much.

The iron lung of CPR

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Imagine not ventilating a patient during CPR. Now imagine that being standard practice. Studies like this one point us in that direction, though we’re not quite there yet.

Dumbing down

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An exercise in how the state can keep people from going above and beyond.

Thinking thoughts

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What should be the educational focus of a paramedic program?

Stick with Palm forever? I guess iWon’t

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A discussion on the state of Android medical software.