The reviewer is correct in that the cold infusion technique featured is certainly not in use in community EM, but it is, in fact, real and under IRB-approved study in humans at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Shock Trauma Center of the University of Maryland. In the show, the patient is only brought to the OR; we don’t suggest he’s had a meaningful survival.
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ACEP Now: Vol 35 – No 02 – February 2016I am frequently disappointed by physicians’ and physician organizations’ leverage of the media. It is commonly anemic and, at worst, self-serving. The real achievement of Code Black is that we constantly show our specialty as always open, always willing, and never discriminating with regard to patient financial status. What’s more, we do it at 10 p.m. on national television without a dark antihero, gratuitous sex, or violence. Not an easy sell in these times.
–Ryan McGarry, MD
New York City
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