Journal Club - February 2, 2015

• What:  Weekly Journal Club
• Where:  MONOC Education Building, 1415 Wyckoff Road, Ground Floor, Wall Township, NJ
• When:  Monday, February 2, 2015 at 10:00 am

• Out-of-hospital spinal immobilization:  Its effect on neurologic injury.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9523928.  An oldie but a goodie.
• Inaccurate treatment decisions of automated external defibrillators used by emergency medical services personnel:  Incidence, cause and impact on outcome.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25556589.  Somewhat surprising analysis of AED error rates.
• Is Copeptin level Associated with 1-year Mortality After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest?  Insights From the Paris Registry.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25599466.  How well can we prognosticate those we get pulses back on?
• Endotracheal Intubation in Patients Treated for Prehospital Status Epilepticus.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25623785.  More debate on whether pre-hospital intubation helps or harms. 
• Should suspected cervical spinal cord injury be immobilised?: A systematic review.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25624270.  A nice systematic review on the evidence of cervical spine immobilization.

Live-tweeting of the journal club @CCareAnywhere.  #EMSJC