Raise the Dead
Life after death—right here on earth—is now a reality for a growing number of patients who were once technically declared dead. As a world-renowned expert in resuscitation science and an Emergency Room physician at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, Dr. Zack Shinar is a hands-on practitioner of ECMO, or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, a life support procedure that involves pumping one’s blood outside the body. Zack walks us through his first encounters cheating death with ECMO and how it has become a regular work day for him to do so. Find out how he’s influencing the worldwide medical community and creating unique educational experiences to expand the impact of resuscitation science from his podcast ED ECMO to an annual conference he co-founded called Reanimate. We discuss future skills like interdisciplinary curiosity, statistical literacy, and effective decision-making for both doctors and patients. Hear how attending one of Zack’s Reanimate Conferences gave one man the skills to bring his own son back to life.
Show Notes
- What is ECMO? Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation can be a life-saving procedure
- Not for the faint of heart: a video of ECMO
- Zack co-hosts the podcast ED ECMO, which is part of the larger ED ECMO Project
- When we talk about the average value of human life, Ben references this Globalist article
- The Reanimate Conference
- Here’s a definition of a “rate-determining step“
- Multi-tasking may not really exist—instead, read about the art of single-tasking
- You can take one of the online courses in EdX that Ben’s done through Microsoft on analytics, which are free and open to the public:
- Jonathan Jackson and Choicemap: also see him on YouTube
- Always great: Doug Hubbard’s How to Measure Anything
- FOAM Education – “free open access medical education”
- Check out this intelligent knife that can smell cancer
- More from The San Diego Association of Geologists