Also posted over at Paramedicine 101 . Go check out the rest of what is there. Back to the EMS Garage post with Mickey S. Eisenberg, MD on resuscitation, [1] the rest of the episode was great. One of the points brought up was, How do we strengthen the first links in the Chain of Survival? Without the right start, how can we expect the later parts to be effective? But we do. We expect that this is all about paramedics, ACLS ( Advanced Cardiac Life Support), EDs (Emergency Departments), drugs, and invasive procedures. So, why have the Chain of Survival ? Because the stuff at the end, if it works at all depends on the stuff at the beginning. You do not put an egg and some cheese on a plate and declare that it is an omelette. The preparation is important. Dr. Eisenberg addressed some of the questions that almost everybody else runs away from, while screaming obscenities ignores. What are the best investments of money to improve resuscitation? Do we need to have the public go through an entire AHA/ARC CPR course, [2] or can we provide the level of education needed to meet the needs of the patient by other means? I wrote about this subject a bit before, in EMS Garage, CPR, Continuous Compressions, and Resuscitation . A link to a video that is not viewed enough (only a little over 2,000 total views listed by YouTube) was sent by Buck Feris

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