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Tyler Christifulli

The Goldfish Paradox


I sat in my office, opened up a spread sheet, and started to develop the different education tracks for the Wisconsin Emergency Medical Service’s Association's (WEMSA)  annual conference. Typically you would have a basic life support (BLS), advance life support (ALS), critical care, and operations track. Even though ALS & BLS providers respond to the same emergencies, we create an educational delineation to allow appropriate transfer of knowledge in relation to baseline education. This prevents a cross contamination of either bor