TP>CN> I heard that a physician was giving talks at EMS conventions that
TP>CN> paramedics are having no good effect at saving lives, and
TP>CN> recommends that EMTs are all that's needed. Seems we need to go
TP>CN> back to the load'n'go days of the dinosaurs..go figure. I guess
TP>CN> that's being considered non-essential...
TP>I'd be willing to bet that medicine is not the main thing that is
TP>motivating  this man to talk this way.  I can show you where
TP>Electrocardioversion and a  round of drugs have saved quite a few
TP>individuals, and all prehospital.  Who  hires this chooch to talk at
TP>the EMS conventions in the first place?  >:-(
This was this DR's opinion, and his only. What he says is that there is 
a lack of hard data to support pre hospital ALS. However, there is also 
a lack of data to say that it doesn't work. It doesn't seem that too 
many people share his opinion. 
Gary
þ CMPQwk 1.42 129 þWhen in doubt, duck. - Malcolm Forbes
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