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Mike McEvoy posted a blog post
Mike McEvoy posted a blog post
Mike McEvoy posted a blog postWhich is better: letting pain and muscle spasm immobilize an injured spine or doing it with the same tools we’ve used for decades? Should hypothermia begin DURING the arrest? Do response times make any difference whatsoever in patient outcomes? The answers to these and other hot EMS topics were intensely debated in Dallas last week at the 14th annual Gathering of Eagles, EMS State of the Science Conference.
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ContinuePosted on February 29, 2012 at 2:00pm
The recent news coverage of Chicago Fire Department losing big bucks to unreimbursed refusal of transport calls is not a problem unique to Chicago. Sure, asthmatics will call for an albuterol treatment when caught without their own medications and some hypoglycemic patients…
ContinuePosted on September 29, 2011 at 10:00am — 1 Comment
The recently released Warner Bros. movie, Contagion details the fictional outbreak of a deadly and highly contagious novel respiratory virus. While some aspects of the movie are improbable, a major outbreak of a deadly disease could really happen. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was extensively involved in the production of Contagion which was partially filmed at their headquarters in Atlanta. If anyone…
ContinuePosted on September 16, 2011 at 9:23am
Not sure how I missed this last week, but our illustrious Centers for Disease Control (CDC) posted a May 16, 2011 set of instructions to help citizens prepare for a potential Zombie Apocalypse. Now, I'm not sure about you, but this tongue-in-cheek instructional set seems a bit out of line for our national health information web source. The CDC has long maintained high quality, authoritative, and well…
ContinuePosted on May 24, 2011 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments
Just ask Lazar Greenfield, MD, a world renowned surgeon from the University of Michigan. Dr. Greenfield's recent Valentines Day editorial in the American College of Surgeons (ACS) newsletter cost him the Presidency of the 77,000 member group he was poised to assume in October. In the surgery news editorial, which some found demeaning to women, Greenfield described semen as a female mood enhancer and suggested that, "there's a deeper bond…
ContinuePosted on April 28, 2011 at 2:37pm
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