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In comes someone with a penetrating injury to the chest, CPR in progress. This is always a bad sign. Into the trauma bay, no pulse, no pressure, no tracing. A quick ED thoracotomy later and I find a pericardium that hissed at me when I opened it. Along with a large pericardial clot was a…
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Mean people suck. It has always seemed to me that it’s much easier to be nice to people than to be mean. * It takes more effort to exclude someone than to include them. * It’s easier to smile than to frown. * It’s easier to tell the truth than to lie. Unfortunately hurt feelings…
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It’s real. I’m here in McDonalds and I decided for the fun of it to see what WiFi was around. I saw _attwifi_ and selected. I opened up a web page it redirected me to an iPhone AT&T page where I entered my phone number and viola. High speed access.
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Boy I’d really like to try some of this [QuickClot][1] stuff in the OR. I think it would be great to use for a planned second look. [1]: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2008/04/blood_clotting
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_Yes Virginia, they really do exist._ So here’s the story. The family of a trauma victim, a motor vehicle collision, is met outside the ICU by a lawyer saying that the particular vehicle in which they were traveling has a defect and he and his firm would be happy to represent them. The family never…
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In October, 2007 CMS (Medicare) proposed a list of eight _preventable_ conditions that result in a prolongation and increase in cost of care to the hospitalized patient. These are what CMS terms **_never events_**. CMS is trying to couch this in terms of _patient safety_ but if you look at the list, there are only…
