Peter Benson MD

Medical Director, Emergency and EMS Physician

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@Teaseryy Yes!

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@Puzzle_Hub It’s zero

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Con Fire Medical Director, Dr. Peter Benson, discusses the safety of the emergency medical system in Contra Costa County, from first responders to emergency rooms, during the Coronavirus pandemic. View the video here: https://t.co/ZmuArbU1CH

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@CuomoPrimeTime @ChrisCuomo Did you repeat a chest X-ray since that last one? How is your oxygen saturation doing. Get well soon.

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@DrBabyFaceDO @j_thePA Upper Respiratory PCR negative? Is CT suggestive?... I assume covered with antibacterials.

Considered empiric remdesivir? Favipirivir? Hydroxychloroquine? IV vitamin C?

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@KGolabMLS @j_thePA Yes. This is why CDC has a “non-testing” option where your return to work clearance depends on time since sx started (at least 7 days) and time since fever resolved (72 hours) with a mask at work for any lingering cough. This pathway applies regardless of pos or neg swab.

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@j_thePA A positive swab means that you have covid virus in the nose, throat etc. A negative swab means there was no covid virus in the sampled location. It is still possible you have the virus and are infectious but the swab didn’t pick up any virus due to technique, location etc.

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@molinaportatil @pmoconne @Tesla @elonmusk Estoy de acuerdo....imposible.

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Every time I fly I have to take off my shoes, xray my luggage and body, all to protect the 300 or so passengers on my plane. But 10 days ago my two nieces were at school within 20 feet of an active shooter and narrowly escaped. Why can’t schools do the same?

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@clayton_kazan @LACOFD @LACoLifeguards Congrats you guys. That really is an exemplary EMS pharmacy system you put together.

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@DrJeffJarvis -As a pressor to attempt to reverse cardiac arrest or periarrest from a low flow PEA. -To increase rate while setting up pacing to attempt to reverse periarrest from severe bradycardia. -I don’t like it at all in refractory shockable arrests.

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@CBSNews Does anyone else think this steer looks very CGI? Especially the horns?

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@JaceMullen Never- that’s a good thing. It keeps you hungry for new knowledge and willing to reach out to others. Medicine just keeps on changing. Was a medic 28 years ago consulting base or my partner and still reaching out to consultants daily to ask questions now that im an ER doc.

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What Doctors Know About CPR | Topic https://t.co/1CsOFySS9D

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@emcrit @ResusPadawan @docpgb Huge fan of checklists. Best I can tell, the major reason aircraft style checklists haven’t become modus operandi for us is self preservation: in medicine if we don’t do one the patient might die..but in an aircraft if we don’t do one, WE might die. #atul_gawande #clayton_kazan

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@clayton_kazan @jab_doc Yes, its critical to have more opportunities for PMs to expand their career options. Tough when burnout, life circumstances, illness or injury precludes continuing to work in an EMS role, yet still able and willing to advance their training to work as a RN, midlevel, doctor etc.

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@seanbrooks00 @clayton_kazan Exactly...And we would ask the same questions if it were proposed that an advanced degree be required in order to extricate and perform hazmat response.

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@clayton_kazan Payors would ultimately be the ones to drive this change. Currently max payment is for SCT(CCT), followed by 911 ALS and BLS transport, and lowest reimbursement for non emergent transport etc. There is currently no market force to staff rigs above the paramedic level.