Re: Re: Two Interesting Studies

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Time distortion in emergency services is a real problem. On the fire side we

once had a County Fire Marshall who took in a day time working fire at around

1500 hours, he was on scene operating in an interior capacity and when he

was done he called the Alarm Room asking us to call his Boss to tell him he

would miss the 1600 meeting he was headed to, the problem was this was around

1800 hours and he was unaware he'd been on the fire ground for over 3 hours.

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In a message dated 3/30/2009 7:47:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time,

spenair@... writes:

Interesting ideas. I liked the final couple of sentences which basically

say we need more research.

" Additionally real world trialscould be done by having a researcher with a

stopwatch, separate from the clinical team, responding with ambulance crews,

medical

emergency team (rapid response team) or cardiac arrest teams inhospitals.

Hospitalized patients on continuous monitoring or patients

with indwelling pacemakers or defibrillators would provide

additional opportunities to compare objective timing to a clinician's

subjective estimate. Finally, if measures could be developed to decrease

the effect of time distortion, clinical practice would likely

improve. "

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