Sheldon Cheskes (@drcheskes) 's Twitter Profile
Sheldon Cheskes

@drcheskes

Professor at UofT, CanROC co-PI, Medical Director for Regions of Halton and Peel, Resuscitation Scientist, Avid Golfer.

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Pretty easy to be medical director when you have an incredible chief Greg Sage and super engaged paramedics Halton Region Paramedic Services Halton Paramedic Union (OPSEU Local 207) who carry out complex RCT’s to move the science of prehospital medicine forward. My job is the easy part, the paramedics skill and

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🚨 Big numbers this winter & spring! We're less than 200 enrollments away from hitting our target! 💥 Total 1875 and here's the breakdown: ⭐Peel: 803 Peel Paramedic ⭐Toronto: 678 Toronto Paramedic Services ⭐Halton: 276 Halton Paramedic Union (OPSEU Local 207) ⭐York: 118 York Paramedics Let’s keep pushing!

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A huge thank you to Halton Region Paramedics for over 5 years of consistent, precise enrollment into the PITSTOP Trial! 🙌With 278 enrollments so far, your consistent efforts and dedication are truly appreciated👏as we near our target! 💥#HaltonParamedics Halton Paramedic Union (OPSEU Local 207)

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A super service with so much experience in performing well in high quality prehospital RCT’S. This is one in a long line of many such successes! Congrats to some truly dedicated paramedics Halton Region Paramedic Services. Greg Sage

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The vast majority of Ontario does DSED as many were in the DOSEVF trial and continued after the trial. Core for VC was simply to ensure in services with only a single defibrillator that something other then ongoing standard defibrillation occurs for these patients. So if you

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Amazing news Alice. You’re one of so many physicians and paramedics I hear from all the time saving lives employing DSED. One of the best parts of spending years doing the #DOSEVF trial is the impact it is having on patient outcomes in the “real world” setting! Congratulations.

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Great question Sam. What I can say is our system no longer does vector change . We start in AP and add AL pads when a second defibrillator arrives. If no second defibrillator is available there will be a very small number of patients who respond to AL simply related to luck and

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Awful. One of the most beautiful cities I’ve had the privilege of speaking in. Sending my best to the people and our EM colleagues during this terrible time

Andy Smith (@airambulancedoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

DSED showed a clear benefit in the DOSE VF study, however, it is not included in the ERC 2025 draft of the new ALS guidelines. A letter to Resuscitation by the author of the study was now revoked and not allowed to be printed. The ERC is on a slippery slope

DSED showed a clear benefit in the DOSE VF study, however, it is not included in the ERC 2025 draft of the new ALS guidelines. 

A letter to Resuscitation by the author of the study was now revoked and not allowed to be printed. 

The ERC is on a slippery slope
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Thanks Aidan. I would suggest following the ILCOR recommendation which ERC in its public comment period did not do. I would also argue if you don’t believe DSED to be superior then recommending VC over DSeD makes zero sense as there is no evidence for such a recommendation, which

PITSTOP (@pitstoprct) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re almost there! 🚨With less than 100 participants to go, we’re on the verge of reaching our PITSTOP study enrollment goal of 2,040! A huge thank you to all the paramedic services and participants who’ve brought us this far — your involvement is powering critical research!

Sheldon Cheskes (@drcheskes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Superb news Luke! Slowly but surely people come around as we continue to produce high quality evidence on DSED, its mechanism and most important its benefit to those in refractory VF.