Recent content by Rescue911Medic

I work with one of the question writers for registry so I will ask him when I see him next and we can get a definitive answer.

Some states have different standards, hence why the National Registry was created in the first place. So some places use the national registry as their state test whereas other states have their own test. Being nationally registered can enable you to quickly get reciprocity in states which...

You're worried because I don't want to read a bunch of wishy washy studies about a medication I can't even give? I've read every CCR/Hands-Only CPR study there is, sorry if I don't feel the need to spend hundreds of dollars every year to get journal access when I can get the relevant studies...

It shut off in 70 questions and I passed.

I don't have the time nor the journal access to read all those sources but I'm betting that the reason the numbers vary so much is there's a low amount of participants in each study. Furthermore their conclusion was "well we should maybe think about doing it sometimes". At least in my area...

But he's so nice! Anyway I did read the article and it seemed to suggest that the research pretty much proves that bicarb either does nothing or is detrimental. The conclusion was "more research is needed". Kind of sounds like if it's bad we should stop giving it to people. The autopulse was...

I had a :censored::censored::censored::censored:ty college GPA and I just don't list it on job applications. You are protected by FERPA, don't forget. All they can do is verify your degree.

The chairman of the ECC committee thinks bicarb is useless. That's enough for me! edit: to clarify, the AHA hasn't put bicarb on the backburner because they're bored or something, they genuinely haven't found it to be medically useful in cardiac arrest situations.