Recent content by Kadian Mavik

It SHOULD be an all or nothing deal.. but it isn't, especially in a court of law. I personally don't want to be resuscitated if I'm brain dead, and I've made those wishes clear to my family, but some people don't agree. But, that being said.. alive and brain dead is better than dead to some...

Absolutely it's possible. That's the nature of medicine isn't it? We don't know 100% of the time how things are going to work. So we go with what seems to work best. And then 10 years later we decide what we've been doing doesn't work as well as we hoped. But then 10 years after that we bring it...

That's about what I've learned as to the why we give epi. If you think about it, giving epinephrine puts the body in survival mode (fight or flight), and that vasoconstriction is going to force blood out of unnecessary organs and into the core where it is needed. Also, that increase in blood...