--- Doc Holiday <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> --- Rowley Cottingham
> >the AF algorithm is a complete waste of space IMHO.
>
Actually I wrote that.
> ---> I think you're right in that. As it stands. But
> it is possible to make
> use of some of it to make sense to ALS providers,
> other than the basics and
> "waiting for the cavalry". I think it is worth
> abbreviating into those who
> are "high risk", where you may well not have time to
> wait for the horses and
> have to play yourself, as directed by the algorithm.
> The "low risk" and
> "intermediate risk" may well be lumped together into
> the small print.
>
My point is what is the real difference between any
tachy arrythmia with a shocked patient? If you look at
the algorithms very little. In the AF algorithm you
give heparin as well as the DC cardioversion. So why
the need for a seperate algorithm?
Fred.
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