Lawyers, vampires, and other bloodsucking creatures

by dr-exmedic

A fictional healthcare provider once said, “Someone’s as likely to sue you in this business as shake your hand,” which was probably based on a real comment. But what are EMS providers being sued for?

Playing Dr. Frankenstein

by dr-exmedic

How do you keep a really significant study from being important? By screwing up the stats.

Burn, baby, burn

by dr-exmedic

Imagine the perfect burn dressing: cheap, clean, easily configurable to many sizes of burn, occlusive to fluids and bacteria. Now, you can look no further than your local grocery store.

Data movement

by dr-exmedic

Where do we get most of our best trauma care? From the experts, of course: the US military.

So much for assessment tools

by dr-exmedic

Actually seeing a patient is generally better than talking to one on the phone–except when you can’t prove that it is.

Hilarious journal articles

by dr-exmedic

From the department of the blindingly obvious comes a new study; the fun is in the exact figures.

Getting all hot and bothered

by dr-exmedic

So just how effective are those drugs in your box after they’ve been sitting in that hot ambulance all day?

Screwing up (part 2)

by dr-exmedic

There isn’t a whole lot of data on prehospital medical errors–and it isn’t for lack of them.

Screwing up (part 1)

by dr-exmedic

There isn’t a whole lot of data on prehospital medical errors–and it isn’t for lack of them.

System abuse

by dr-exmedic

It’s easy to think your service is overwhelmed by system abusers, but is it?