Isabel talks with Ivan Whitaker, Medical Program Director for Priority Dispatch Corp. They discuss the need for protocols that deal specifically with inter-facility transfers, the importance of research-based evidence to justify an ambulance ride to insurance companies, and how the transfer protocol fits in with the Medical Priority Dispatch System...
Isabel talks with Marc Gay, one of the world's foremost experts on CPR and resuscitation. They discuss the levels of evidence for which resuscitation research qualifies, when to use ventilation first and when to use compressions first, and the future of dispatch-assisted CPR...
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...