TABLE 8: Allowed Interventions & Additional Equipment
Aspirin to chest pain patients 96.6% (142)
End-tidal CO2 detectors (capnography) on intubated patients 91.8% (135)
Pediatric intraosseous (IO) infusion 90.5% (133)
12-lead ECGs 83.7% (123)
Authority to pronounce medical codes dead on scene 76.2% (112)
Needle cricothyrotomy 75.5% (111)
Authority to pronounce trauma codes dead on scene 67.3% (99)
Needle thoracostomy 63.9%
(94)
Syringe aspiration technique (esophageal detector device) 52.4% (77)
Analgesics other than morphine 44.9% (66)
Adult intraosseous (IO) infusion 42.9% (63)
Continue to use MAST 33.3% (49)
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) 33.3% (49)
Surgical cricothyrotomy 30.6% (45)
Esophageal obturator airway (EOA) 29.3% (43)
Transport trauma codes by helicopter (Pulse/Resp/BP = 0) 27.2% (40)
Rapid sequence induction (RSI) 24.5% (36)
Carbon monoxide (CO) monitoring 20.4% (30)
Cardiac compression devices (e.g., AutoPulse or Thumper) 19.0% (28)
Nitrous oxide 14.3% (21)
Full-body vacuum splints 8.2% (12)
Thrombolytics to MI patients 3.4% (5)
Thrombolytics to CVA patients (brain attacks) 2.0% (3)
Et on laisse le SAMU tranquille en final de coupe du monde/Stanley
... mais ça
Y'a longtemps qu'on le savait
Folks don't call 911during the "Big Game"
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It's down to the final play of the Super Bowl and you're choking on a
pretzel what's a sports fan to do?
You're more likely to watch the game-winning kick than seek medical care, according to a new report.
Physicians at Children's Hospital Boston, who collected data from emergency rooms in Boston
The authors used the Nielsen television ratings to determine the magnitude of a sporting contest: the higher the rating, the more important they considered the game.
The findings, published in today's edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine, indicate that the games with the highest Nielsen television ratings Game 4 of the World Series and Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, both of which were series-clinching contests for the Red Sox were associated with lower emergency department volume than games with lower television viewership.
Based on their data, the authors believe that one can predict how busy an emergency room will be based on how "big" the game is. This does not come as a surprise to many emergency medicine physicians, who have found they see far fewer patients in their hospitals at times when there is a major sporting event being played.
"That seems to hold true in many occasions," said Dr. Guillermo Pierluisi, an
emergency medicine physician at the Medical College of Georgia. "Folks with nonemergent conditions sometimes even those with emergent conditions such as chest pain tend to wait until the televised event is over to visit the emergency department."
Even when patients were already in the emergency department before the start of a contest, some doctors noted a change in the way their families behaved once the game was under way.
"Family members gather around the TV in our waiting room instead of waiting with the patient in the room during the sporting events," said Dr. Peter Anagnostopoulos of the Austin Medical Center in Austin, Minn. "The patient may have multiple family members present with only one person in the room with the patient and the remainder of the family in the waiting
room watching the event on TV. When the games are over, then they all want to come back to the room with the patient."
Sep 23, 2005
