LidoPen

Part of a longer Medgadget post about a pocket 1-lead EKG:

LidoPen® auto-injector to self-administer lidocaine while the ambulance is en route. The LidoPen® can be crucial for saving a subscriber’s life in cases where a severe arrhythmia is diagnosed by Monitor Center staff. LidoPen® is an automatic, patient-administered syringe containing a single 300-mg. dose of [...]

Pre-Register for the ER

From Medgadet:

Einstein Helps You Pre-Register for the ER

Oh boy, who wouldn’t love this idea? Security issues aside, how great would it be to be able to waltz into your local emergency room, flash some plastic and bypass the paperwork.

Faster emergency room care for you and your family. Imagine visiting an Emergency Room where they already [...]

Robust Aussie Ambulance

From EMSResponder, as reported in Medgadget:
Tank-like Rescue Vehicles that Cut Through Concrete: Australian for Ambulance
In most countries/continents, a person might be satisfied with an ambulance that drove you from point A to point B. But In Australia, you have to be prepared for anything. EMSResponder has a report on the recent arrival of six state-of-the-art [...]

Thearpeutic Hypothermia CME

Therapeutic Hypothermia Podcast Available
A clinical article about therapeutic hypothermia, part of the popular “Focus On” series from ACEP News, is now available online, both as a written article and an audio MP3 file. Read or listen to the article and then take the quiz to earn one hour of CME credit.

New Study Disputes Value of an Antibiotic Standard as a Quality Measure

An American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) press release:
Washington, DC- A requirement set in 2004 that emergency physicians administer antibiotics within 4 hours to adult patients admitted with pneumonia may not only be unfeasible, but may inadvertently overmedicate some patients and contribute to growing antibiotic resistance.
Two articles appearing online this week in Annals of [...]

Compression Only CPR?

From CNN.com
(AP) — Chest compression — not mouth-to-mouth resuscitation — seems to be the key in helping someone recover from cardiac arrest, according to new research that further bolsters advice from heart experts.
A study in Japan showed that people were more likely to recover without brain damage if rescuers focused on chest compressions rather than [...]

Baby Simulator

From MedGadget:

BBC News is reporting that a computer-controlled simulator is now being used by trainee nurses at the Chatham campus of Canterbury Christ Church University. SimBaby infant simulator is a product of Laerdal Medical, a Orpington, Kent company.
Here’s what the company says about the sim:
SimBaby is the portable advanced infant patient simulator for team training. [...]

EMTALA Bill

From GruntDoc:
Many thanks to Aggravated Doc Surg for bringing this to my attention. I thought I was the only one with this idea, but clearly I’m not:
To my surprise, Congresswoman Mary Bono (the late Sonny’s wife) recently introduced a bill that would alter IRS rules to allow physicians to at least partially offset the [...]

Do You Know Where Your AED is At?

From MedGadget:
Richard Lazar, the inventor of the ResQPod Circulatory Enhancer for CPR, is continuing his efforts to improve the survival of cardiac arrest patients. Through his company, Atrus Inc., he is beginning to market new software that will help first responders to locate nearby AED’s (Automated External Defibrillator).
When bystanders perform immediate CPR, it buys time [...]