I suppose this will be off the new cycle by the end of the week

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Geneva-based Doctors Without Borders said bluntly: "There is little sign of significant aid distribution."

The aid group complained of skewed priorities and a supply bottleneck at the U.S.-controlled airport. Doctors Without Borders spokesman Jason Cone said the U.S. military needed "to be clear on its prioritization of medical supplies and equipment."

[Poll #1513195]

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Just curious

[gohover.livejournal.com]

That was interesting! Thanks.

For step 4a, If there isn't a team available to do CPR on the victims without a pulse, are those unhurt people from step 3a (the ones who are put on the 2nd bus) given an opportunity to do CPR? Even if they can't do CPR as well as an EMT, it might be better than nothing.

Re: Just curious

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

1 The objective is to get those folks out of the way. Unless they identify themselves as uninjured and an EMT, then they're on the bus and leaving. Then they have to convince the Fire Chief of this, which will, upon occasion, get them assisted to the bus, and on their way out of there. I've had people identify themselves as doctors and ordered me out of the way, only to not perform CPR correctly. I was unamused and this far from presenting the alleged doctor with a boot to the head. I get protective of my patients.

2 Trauma arrest doesn't always present itself as fibrillation, which means asystole. No activity at all, for any of a number of reasons. CPR doesn't help much in those circumstances. In this instance I'd bet on C-spine deviation [it's busted] as the mechanism of injury and cause of the cardiac arrest. We call that "not conducive to life."

--Hawk