Doubling, tripling, quadrupling up
by dr-exmedicIn yet another effort to figure out optimal crew configuration, a group of researchers comes across an unexpected result.
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In yet another effort to figure out optimal crew configuration, a group of researchers comes across an unexpected result.
It’s yet another high-quality cardiac arrest trial, but one that won’t change very much.
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.
How useful is one of the most common triage systems? The best way to find out might be to see how it works at an actual disaster.
Are you still working cardiac arrests on scene? If you’re thinking of not doing so, someone has finally compared all the rules for stopping resuscitation in one study.
As an example of the (probably misattributed) Mark Twain quote about “Lies, damn lies, and statistics,” I found an example of an EMS study whose abstract is remarkably easy to misuse to support a point.
There are proven remedies, and unproven remedies–and remedies that are slowly being shown to not matter. This latest study provides a little more wood for the coffin that may one day contain spinal immobilization precautions.
There aren’t too many central repositories of EMS research, but the Canadians are trying.