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Be careful what you say Communication in the ICU: An Unintended Nocebo Effect? Congratulations Luda Karnatovskaia Megan Hosey and team journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Pts. who received prehospital transcutaneous pacing had high mortality (63%). Progression to cardiac arrest is common (20%) and assoc. w/⬆️weight, a non-bradycardic initial heart rate and pre-TCP hypoxia among pts. who did not receive CPR prior to TCP. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Geriatric falls can be a sentinel event for a patient; this is a great badge buddy for EMS and EM folks to keep on them! (Also I love the MEMAW mnemonic)! #EMS #emergencymedicine

"A discussion that focuses solely on the response times, neglects life saving emergency medical care...EMTs, AEMTs and paramedics provide on a daily basis." Sums up the Joint Position Statement on EMS Performance Measures nicely. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

What is the Cooper manoeuvre? Vertical lifting of the tracheal tube until its tip is level with the glottis. Avoid an exaggerated posterior tilt - this makes it more likely to ‘hang up’ on the arytenoid cartilages. Nicholas Chrimes 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Some of the best learning I got as a paramedic was from EM docs following up patients for me. Such a small, easy thing to do as a doc with big rewards. Docs like that made me want to be a better medic, but also made me want to become a doc

mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/1… Martiola Kola

We just published a pediatric distal femur IO study in #PrehospitalEmergencyCareJournal. This is the first publication demonstrating the success of this site in the pediatric population. A huge thanks to my team at PBC Fire Rescue for promoting and encouraging high quality EMS

Today at the EMS World Expo, NAEMSP's Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD was honored with the 2024 Nat'l Assoc of EMTs EMS Medical Director of the Year Award. Please join us in congratulating Maia Dorsett!

Can naloxone raise the dead in cardiac arrest? Dillon et al “Naloxone and Patient Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in California” looked at this question. The results challenged what I’ve thought for a long time. Check out Ken Milne MD here: thesgem.com/2024/09/sgem45…

We just published this in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology -- Advances (JACC Advances) "State of the Art Review".   It is a REALLY interesting read, using quotes from Thomas Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (the book that coined the word

Career Crossroads. A recent editorial in the Journal of Paramedic Practice on going from Paramedicine to Medicine and comparing the inherent values of each profession by Dr Aidan Baron tinyurl.com/3zppv86u

40+ years in EMS....12 presidential elections....this is the first time I've seen a health care platform mention EMS, specifically rural EMS, as part of health care policy.

#PathMatch2025 tomorrow is the day! All programs will use #Thalamus! For those who receive an invitation from Northwestern Pathology - please ensure that you schedule yourself for an interview day as well as for the Resident Meet & Greet to be held on the same week!

Here the (more specific) part begins: 21. Femoral vein (FV) catheters have been demonized. A recently published study of 55,663 CVCs showed no difference of catheter-related bloodstream infection incidence rates between the three insertion sites (doi.org/10.1007/s00134…). IMHO,

Congratulations and thanks to my wonderful colleague Northwestern Pathology Dr Glenn Ramsey for his innumerable contributions to the quality practice of and advocacy for Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine. He received the CAPathologists Lifetime Achievement Award today #CAP2024

I’m excited to announce my candidacy for the “Physician Member at Large” position on the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) board. I would be grateful for your support and look forward to sharing my vision! Please vote Ameera Haamid ✅🗳️

Hard to believe the end of residency is in sight but I’m so stoked to be joining Hennepin EMS Medical Directors for EMS Fellowship and staying Hennepin County EM for another year!

The best.

1/ FDA hearing on #andexanet alfa is tomorrow (21 Nov 2024). The documents contain some more data on thrombotic events that weren't published in ANNEXA-I. To be honest, reading through, I have found this data pretty shocking. A 🧵