(Cross Posted to Fire Engineering Editorial Blog and TKT Blog May 22, 2009)
This essay was written by Dr. John P. Pryor. He was a trauma surgeon who refused to be idle when so many wounded Americans and Iraqis could be helped by his skills. He enlisted in the Army reserve and wrote this article after [...]
(Posted here first, also posted on Fire Engineering Editorial Blog, Fire Rescue1.com and linked from TKT)
Egypt ordered a mass slaughtering of pigs as a supposed precaution against swine flu. Vice President Joe Biden told Today show host Matt Lauer that airplane and subway travel posed high risk for flu virus transmission. An ED doc in the [...]
(originally posted to Fire Engineering Editors Blog and TKT Blog April 27, 2009)
The swine flu buzz is causing information overload. There are three things pertinent to the fire service that must be implemented immediately to protect your members, provide excellent patient care, and be a good public health partner. Here’s the list:
Fire Service Leaders
Immediately notify [...]
(originally posted on Fire Engineering Editorial blog April 24, 2009)
Uh oh. By now, you’ve probably read our breaking news reporting a swine flu outbreak in Southern California and Texas. Is this novel virus with confirmed human-to-human transmission the start of a pandemic? Maybe, maybe not. The CDC released a MMWR report with full details of [...]
(originally published on Fire Engineering Editorial Blog, April 23, 2009)
In small town news worthy of national laughter, the City of Albany, New York treasurer refused to release copies of forgiven parking tickets to an investigating committee citing HIPAA privacy rules. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, for those with momentary lapse of [...]
(originally posted on the Fire Engineering Board blog, March 10, 2009)
Working to improve your cardiac arrest reversal rate? Keeping an eye on Departments who proudly tout consistently high resuscitation rates? Maybe you shouldn’t. Medicine, particularly cardiovascular medicine, has evolved a hundred fold in the past two decades. We used to focus most of our time [...]