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Dive-aholic:Every code I've witnessed, the patient let all the "good air" out in a big snoring exhalation. That doesn't leave much left to circulate!
Wildcard:Yet we follow them like gods? Why? Frikkkin lawyers.
catherine96821:I know many top gun trauma nurses who have left the job because of the silly beauracracy and insurance realities.
erparamedic:You are correct.... I was just stating the rationale that I was given by the Cardiologists in the ACLS recert class. I'm in the same boat with the rest of you.... I don't think that the new ACLS protocols are going to make any difference in improving the outcomes of a cardiac arrest patient.
in the end, a success for much of anybody.
TSandM:Stephen, I know that the changes are "evidence-based", but I still think we are desperately trying to refine a very blunt and ineffective instrument, and really good studies are hard to do.