To sort of make an on/off topic comment, here in NY, we have recently begun using hypothermic protocol on cardiac arrest patients that have undergone a reversal. If the heart has stopped and been restarted either with a defib or by CPR alone and we are on scene in a short enough span of time, we can start the treatment using chilled saline IV to lower the patient's body temperature rather dramatically en route to the hospital. I got to work the first one of these in our area a few months ago. Absolutely fascinating.
Of course we need to make very careful and accurate note of the time the treatments begin. :) On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is one case in which a Swedish medical student was out skiing in >> Norway and went through the ice and was being held there by the strong >> water. It took them 45 min just to get her out of the water. Her heart had >> stopped. Her respiration had stopped. She have had no pulse or breath for >> over an hour when they finally started working on her at the hospital. She >> survived and is almost completely restored. ... > > This is OT for time-nuts, but it's a really good read. > > Atul Gawande > The Checklist > If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do? > December 10, 2007 > http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande > > It begins with what it takes to save a drowning victim, in this case, a 3 > year old girl. > > He's also written a book: > The Checklist Manifesto > http://gawande.com/the-checklist-manifesto > > > To bring things back to time-nuts, if you were setting up gear or running a > test, would a checklist help you avoid silly errors? > > > > -- > These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
