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Hannah Ostrem: Jun 25, 2015
You've heard it before: "Time is tissue." When it comes to heart attack, this statement is painstakingly true. Only a few years ago, it was standard for patients to wait two hours before...
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James Woodson, MD: Jun 07, 2015
Do you believe that “time is tissue?” Two million brain cells die every minute when your patient is having a stroke. With that knowledge, how can we decide on an “acceptable” treatment time? Is it...
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Hannah Ostrem: Jun 03, 2015
The successful care of STEMI cases is dependent on members of EMS, the ED charge nurse, the ED physician, the cath lab, the rapid/house RN, and the cardiologist all working together in sync to...
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Team Pulsara: Mar 19, 2015
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to our guest blogger, Bob Sullivan. Bob Sullivan, MS, NRP, is a paramedic instructor at Delaware Technical Community College. He has been in EMS since 1999, and has...
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Hannah Ostrem: Feb 24, 2015
Approximately 200,000 people in the United States will suffer a STEMI this year, and, according to a recently published article in the Wall Street Journal, roughly 5% of those cases will occur in...
