Stroke Care Best When EMS Calls In En Route

From Medpage Today:

Stroke patients get faster, better treatment when paramedics send word ahead to alert the hospital that they are coming — a practice recommended in guidelines, but still not done in about a third of cases, researchers found.

Notice from emergency medical services en route shortened door-to-imaging, door-to-needle, and symptom onset-to-needle times significantly, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, of the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and colleagues found.

Man bites officer after refusing to leave ER, Burbank police say

From the LA Times:

When officers arrived, Ruiz said Moser’s pants were around his knees and he refused to leave.

As the officers were taking Moser into custody, he allegedly bit one of the officers on the hand, Ruiz said.

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“He was waving saying, ‘Call the paramedics! My arm is gone!’”

From JEMS:

An alligator at least 10 feet long lunged at a teenager swimming in a river and bit off the teen’s right arm below the elbow, state wildlife officials said Tuesday.

Kaleb Langdale, 17, survived the encounter Monday in the Caloosahatchee River west of Lake Okeechobee. Wildlife officers who caught and killed the alligator retrieved the arm, but doctors were unable to reattach it.