Sept. 26, 2017
Dawn of Emergency Dispatch Research with Brett Patterson
Lori Henricksen, director of the emergency telecommunications program for high schoolers at the Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas (Nevada), discusses the creation of her program and the challenges it presents,
Isabel talks with Brett Patterson, the chair of the Medical Council of Standards for the IAED. They discuss the why and how of getting involved with research, what it means that a dispatch system is "evidence-based," and how to enact change to protocols using research. For Your Information: Sepsis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis) ABCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(medicine)) AHA (http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/) Hypoxic seizure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia) Edwards Deming, Some Theory of Sampling (https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Sampling-William-Edwards-Deming/dp/048664684X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505500418&sr=1-4&refinements=p_lbr_one_browse-bin%3AW.+Edwards+Deming) Edwards Deming, Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position (https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Productivity-Competitive-Position-Edwards/dp/0911379002/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)