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- Kevin T Collopy, Sean M Kivlehan, and Scott R Snyder.
- EMS World. 2015 Mar 1;44(3):38-45.
AbstractEvidence-based medicine will continually change the paradigm in which emergency medicine is practiced. Fifteen years ago tourniquets were a last resort and often considered a guaranteed way to lose a limb; today they are a gold standard in hemorrhage control. Believing in, and having practiced, medicine we later learn to be false doesn't make someone a bad provider, nor does it make them wrong. It simply means emergency medicine and EMS will continue to develop as a profession, and our body of evidence will continue to grow as we learn more about prehospital care. As we prepare to retire MAST, backboards and lidocaine, and realize the golden hour as a concept rather than a definitive 60 minutes, it's important to keep a critical eye out for the next intervention that truly will help patients during their prehospital care.
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