– Continuing from Amiodarone for Cardiac Arrest in the 2010 ACLS – Part I . – It (amiodarone) can be considered for treatment of VF or pulseless VT unresponsive to shock delivery, CPR, and a vasopressor. In blinded randomized controlled clinical trials in adults with refractory VF/pulseless VT in…
“Pons, D.G.!” Ten years after Denver General changed it’s name to Denver Health Medical Center, Dr. Pons was still referring to the institution as D.G. and still answering the bio-phone with his same, hallmark gruffness. Any medic who worked in the Denver metro area from the mid 1970s till…
One of the best personal habits you can cultivate is charitable giving and I am sure many of you regularly give to or tithe to your church, community organizations, and national international charities. For my wife and I charitable giving is an important habit that we first learned from…
– Today’s New England Journal of Medicine has a very dramatic video of the paradoxical chest wall motion of a patient with a flail chest. The article and video are free – not just for subscribers. Flail Chest – with link to the video . The big picture is…
I use Articulate elearning software to create quiz question for online EMT and paramedic continuing education. The software makes the process easy. The real difficulty is writing quiz questions that engage the learner and assess their new knowledge based on the lesson objectives. Determining the type and difficulty of…
– Can’t say, clowns will eat me responded to Appropriate Morphine Dosing for Opioid Tolerant Patients with – So, here’s my concern. Those of us out there that care and are trying for patients will always do our best to find a way to lessen the patient’s pain to…
During much of 2010 I have been reading my way through the genre of “ EMS Literature .” Here are my picks for the Everyday EMS Reader on your shopping list (or for your own personal reading list). Some are recently published while others are EMS classics. 1. Paramedic…
– Source for images. There guest post over at Everyday EMS Tips – not by me – about something that most of us only rarely encounter in EMS. Transport Tips When an EMS Patient has a Service Dog . Do we tell patients that they must abandon their eye…
– From November 17. The government apparently has decided that hospital administrators employees may not decide who may visit us, except for the reasons that are medical. “Basic human rights—such as your ability to choose your own support system in a time of need—must not be checked at the…
– – Also posted over at Paramedicine 101 (now at EMS Blogs ) and at Research Blogging . Go check out the rest of the excellent material at these sites. There is a new research podcast specifically for EMS – EMS Research Podcast . On episode 2 we discuss…