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The Tasmanian Study Disclosure - the lead author used to be my partner. We were both medics at the same two agencies (volunteer and hospi...

So this was one of the first bits of medical "lore" I learned as a spanking-new EMT-B. ("Lore" meaning things that are n...

This would make a lousy case for a EMS 12-Lead -style presentation, because it's a little to difficult to predict the outcome. And I can...

The facts: a 35 year old male, with no medical history, presented with 1 week of chest pain that became acutely worse 1 hour prior. It was a...

Medics aren't happy unless they're arguing about something. Since most paramedics are 1) intelligent, 2) clever,  and 3) convinced...

Quick post today, concerning a very common error I see both in EMS and ED patients - misplaced ECG leads. I would call this a pet peeve (as...

In the last 2 posts, I reviewed recent studies that looked at the decision to obtain a prehospital ECG, and a novel method to teach STEMI id...