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?  >:-(
 GS> This was this DR's opinion, and his only. What he says is that there is 
 GS> a lack of hard data to support pre hospital ALS. However, there is also 
 GS> a lack of data to say that it doesn't work. It doesn't seem that too 
 GS> many people share his opinion. 
 GS> Gary
 GS> þ CMPQwk 1.42 129 þWhen in doubt, duck. - Malcolm Forbes
        I belive that there are times when prehospital ALS personal can 
overstep their bounds. Paramedics are wrong when they delay transportation of 
critical pts to "save there lives". I belive this is the biggest problem. It 
must be very hard for a surgen to hear "yea we were on scene for 30 minutes 
but we did get the second IV". To bad you did not stop the pt's bleeding, or 
notice the colasped left lung!   Oh well... I belive that on the hole ALS is 
a benefit for the patient, and that is why I became a paramedic. We have to 
be made aware of our impact on the patient, good or bad.
charles philbin
        And don't worry there will never be a shortage of advancedtransfers. 
There not going to pay BIG money for RNs or MDs to do it!!
!
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