HealthONE EMS Podcast

Have you ever been criticized for not immobilizing an asymptomatic trauma patient, or felt frustrated when a carefully immobilized trauma patient had his collar rapidly removed and was taken off the backboard shortly after arrival by the emergency physician without any X rays being ordered? If the answer to this question is yes, or if you would just like to know more about an important and controversial topic in trauma care, then this podcast is for you. Dr. Dylan Luyten discusses the evidence for selective prehospital spinal immobilization and describe the necessary elements of such a protocol.

This podcast presentation includes a discussion of brain injury after cardiac arrest and how therapeutic hypothermia can be used to improve outcomes for survivors. Included is a discussion of the implications of recent research both for EMS and Emergency Medicine.