Author: Peter T. Pons MD FACEP

Forty years ago, Peter Rosen, MD, then the chair of the Emergency Department at Denver General Hospital (now Denver Health), defined a concept he called “The Technical Imperative.” Quite simply, the Technical Imperative is the principle that “If a procedure is taught, it will be used with a frequency greater than its indications.”[1] Recently, a…

Stop the Bleed, the national campaign initiated by the White House in response to the many recent active shooter incidents in the U.S., has garnered significant attention and support over the past two years. Active shooter situations, coupled with research that has come out of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, have helped us clarify…