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Placebo vs Belief vs Neither – Part III
– In response to Placebo vs Belief vs Neither – Part II is this comment from Brian Kellett of Brian Kellett (dot) net and the author behind Random Acts of Reality All fair enough, and I agree with you...
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Backboards, Evidence and EMS Pay – EMS Office Hours Rapid Fire September 2013
– On this week’s EMS Office Hours, Jim Hoffman, Josh Knapp, and I discuss EMS pay, reimbursement for patient care, and some topics covered last week at EMS Expo in Las Vegas (the absence of evidence...
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In Defense of No Improvement by Medic Madness – Part I
I wrote about treatment with the LUCAS CPR machine and stated that There is no price that justifies no improvement.[1] There are plenty people who want to justify the use of placebo treatments –...
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In Defense of No Improvement by Medic Madness – Part II
Continuing from Part I, in response to what I wrote about the failure of the LUCAS,[1] Sean continues with – No, there isn’t much data to suggest that using a LUCAS improves outcomes. Likewise, we...
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$16M on EMS Stroke Trial? Dr. Rick Bukata Wants His Money Back!
FAST-MAG[1] actually has good methodology, so why is Dr. Rick Bukata so upset? Is this just USC vs. UCLA off the field/court? Should the hypothesis being tested have received the Queen for a Decade...
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In Defense of No Improvement by Medic Madness – Part III
Continuing from Part I and Part II, in response to what I wrote about the failure of the LUCAS,[1] Sean continues with – So do these results reflect on a device that’s over-hyped, or are we...
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In Defense of No Improvement by Medic Madness – Part IV
Continuing from Part I, Part II, and Part III in response to what I wrote about the failure of the LUCAS,[1] Sean continues with – Another issue I have with this data, is that it doesn’t address...
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Is placebo better than aggressive medical treatment for patients NOT having a...
Also to be posted on ResearchBlogging.org when they relaunch the site. Is cardiac catheterization placebo better than aggressive medical treatment for patients not having a heart attack? No. The...
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Cardiac arrest victim Trudy Jones ‘given placebo’– rather than experimental...
As part of a study to find out if epinephrine (adrenaline in Commonwealth countries) is safe to use in cardiac arrest, a patient was treated with a placebo, rather than the inadequately tested drug....
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A Randomized Trial of Epinephrine in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – Part I
Also to be posted on ResearchBlogging.org when they relaunch the site. The results are in from the only completed Adrenaline (Epinephrine in non-Commonwealth countries) vs. Placebo for Cardiac...
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This Rhythm is Hilarious
Click on the image to make it larger. Apparently, the second 12 lead was after 150 mg of amiodarone. The hilarity is the amiodarone. I received this in an email. It is reported to have been posted...
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