Location of Cardiac Arrests in the Public Access Defibrillation Trial

From Prehospital Emergency Care via EmergencyMDLinx:
Background. The Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Trial found an overall doubling in the number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (CA) survivors when a lay responder team was equipped with an automated external defibrillator (AED), compared with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) alone. Objectives. To describe the types of facilities that participated in the [...]

A leap in faith: the impact of removing the surgeon from the level II trauma response

from the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, via EmergencyMDLinx:
Limitation of resident work hours has created the need to explore alternatives to surgeon presence during initial assessment and resuscitation for selected life-threatening injuries in children. We recently eliminated the requirement for surgeon presence during Level II alerts. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact [...]