At 04:51 AM 28/01/01 -0800, Taj wrote:
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>Funny things seem to happen in European EMS systems!!?
Hhhhhmmm ! ! !
You noticed too ! ?
We had the Medical Director of the Paris SAMU here at an anesthesia
conference.
He explain in all seriousness that the US medic had a 40% intubation rate
of success
(he was saying 80% a year earlier)
... the reality is that the majority of EMS have a 95% intubation rate
(with lots of places for aberrant systems in the minimally regulated US
environment)
BUT these system do keep track of at least minimal benchmarks
Thus the appropriate elicited reaction... they would have been wiser not
measuring anything ! ? (NOT !)
What do the French do ?
This same gentleman said that Europe (German study) had a 2% survival of
traumatic arrest at 1 year.... versus 0.05% for the poor Americans. (A more
scientific MD at the same conference was concluding on 1.3 & 1.2%
respectively)
The Cardio pump works better in Europe than the USA ? ? ?
So one is left wondering how these rabid bias carry through consciously &
unconsciously in the research ?
Cheers
Charles Brault EMT-P
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