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Advancing Pediatric Readiness and Prehospital Innovation with Dr. Peter Antevy · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  Hello, and welcome to the Becker's Healthcare podcast.
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  My name is Chanel Banger. And today, I
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  have the pleasure of speaking with doctor Peter
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  Entevi,
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  emergency and EMS physician and the founder and
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  chief medical officer at Handevi, who joins the
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  podcast today to share insights into his background,
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  turns he's keeping an eye on and a
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  bit more. Doctor Hamtevi, thank you so much
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  for joining me today. Thanks, Chanel. Great to
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  be here.
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  Of course. Well, to get us started, could
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  you please share a little bit about your
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  background and Hamtevi?
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  Absolutely. So I'm a pediatric emergency medicine physician
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  and EMS medical director here in South Florida.
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  I also serve as the medical director for
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  a number of fire departments,
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  including Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and Brevard
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  County Fire Rescue, two of the largest systems
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  in the state. And I'm also the founder
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  and chief medical officer of HanTEVI.
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  And what HanTEVI is, the the origin story
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  is actually where we should get started because
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  in 2005,
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  I made a tenfold medication error on a
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  five year old girl.
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  And this is after training at two of
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  the top 10 children's hospitals. I,
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  I gave 10 times more medicine than I
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  was supposed to do, and that's because I
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  was doing math
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  right there at the bedside.
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  And,
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  story still gets me,
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  because I then spent
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  years after that trying to figure out the
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  solution to that problem,
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  and that's how Entebbe was born.
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  And it's been sixteen years,
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  and now
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  I'm happy to say that we serve EMS
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  and hospital emergency departments all across,
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  50 states.
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  And we provide real time weight based medication
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  dosing.
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  We give the equipment sizing, scoring tools, all
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  happening at the point of care,
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  meaning that if someone's dying in front of
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  you, adult or child,
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  there are clinicians out there using our application
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  right at that moment.
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  Got it. Got it. That's amazing to hear.
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  And I'm curious to know,
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  what are the trends that you're currently watching
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  either in emergency medicine, prehospital research, or just
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  health care overall?
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  Yeah. So there are so many topics that,
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  that are trending now that I'm following. But
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  to stay on topic, the biggest one for
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  me is pediatric readiness.
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  As many people in the in the hospital
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  world know,
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  in January,
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  there was a a joint policy statement released
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  by AAP, ASAP, ENA, and the American College
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  of Surgeons,
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  you know, basically laying out that every emergency
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  department needs to be ready to care for
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  kids.
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  There was,
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  some pretty large
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  datasets that were published
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  showing that very few hospital emergency departments today
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  in this country are ready to take care
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  of children.
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  And the data is pretty compelling.
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  If you are a ready hospital pediatric ready
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  hospital,
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  there's a seventy six percent lower mortality,
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  for critically
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  ill and injured kids, and that's a lot
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  of lives that could be saved. And
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  so many states now are actually
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  passing
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  legislation
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  so that hospitals
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  should become ready for pedia for pediatric emergencies.
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  So that's something that we're focused on, not
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  just on the EMS side,
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  but also on the hospital side.
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  And the the interesting thing
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  is that the timing
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  with what we do is that some people
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  may know that
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  in 2025,
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  there were,
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  there were two editions of the Braselow tape
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  that were recalled.
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  First one was in May 2025 and then
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  another one in December 2025.
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  And
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  doctor Braslow was a legend.
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  Unfortunately, he passed away recently.
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  But it really goes to show that having
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  tools that are on printed
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  cards and printed tapes are really, you know,
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  something that started in the mid eighties,
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  and now we haven't really moved forward towards
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  digital tools
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  and tools that can be used offline,
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  medications that could be modified in real time
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  so that we don't have to worry about
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  having
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  kind of cards and and length based tapes
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  that have to be replaced.
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  So pediatric readiness is 2026,
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  and all hospitals,
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  will be working towards
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  improving their pediatric readiness, which I'm excited about.
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  That is exciting to hear. Thank you so
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  much for walking us through that. And now
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  it's hard to believe that we're already a
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  quarter away through 2026.
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  I'm curious to know, what are you most
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  focused on and excited about going through the
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  rest of the year?
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  Yeah. So
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  we have we have lots going on here
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  in the state of Florida. I will say
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  that,
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  about three years ago, we started providing blood
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  in the ambulances here in Palm Beach County
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  and in Broward County.
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  So what does that mean? It means that
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  if someone's hemorrhaging,
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  from any cause, trauma,
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  medical hemorrhage, OB, as an example,
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  we now have the ability to bring that
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  blood to the scene.
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  And we've given in the two counties over
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  650
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  units,
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  and we have a survival
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  of in the in the high eighties, like
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  eighty eight percent. Meaning that if you did
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  not go into cardiac arrest and we came
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  in and gave you blood before you died,
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  you had an eighty eight percent survival. So
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  I'm actually headed up to Washington DC on
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  Wednesday.
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  We're advocating so that the CMS can actually
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  pay for that blood for EMS because it
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  is cost prohibitive for many,
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  organizations.
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  But that's kind of the one of the
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  bigger things that I'm working on,
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  now, and we're trying to get a statewide,
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  funding from the state of Florida so that
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  we can get blood in all 67 counties.
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  That's great to hear.
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  And now as somebody who took a personal
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  experience and turn it into a solution,
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  I'd love to hear what advice you would
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  give to evolving leaders looking to have that
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  same impact in their careers as you have.
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  Yeah. That's a great question. I I would
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  say that when I started this and I
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  came up with this crazy idea, many people
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  thought it was crazy in in about 2008
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  time frame.
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  I was talking to people, and they kept
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  telling me where's the evidence? Where's the evidence?
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  And I'm proud to say that over the
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  years,
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  many people
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  have studied our product.
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  And in fact, last week,
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  what I believe is a landmark study coming
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  out of Rochester, doctor Maya Dorsett just published.
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  They, after using our system and integrating it,
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  now have a ninety seven percent correct pediatric
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  dosing
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  for medications in a very large EMS system.
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  If you look at the prior studies,
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  you have
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  fifty percent
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  of correct medication dosing for children, which which
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  seems pretty crazy when you hear that number.
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  So this last paper is the highest ever
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  reported
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  of correct medication dosing in kids.
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  And, after sixteen years and after someone who
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  made that,
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  tenfold medication error in 2,005,
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  I would say that if you're gonna be
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  in this
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  field of health care innovation,
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  you have to lead with the data.
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  And
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  I would also say that other people need
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  to to be evaluating
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  the product.
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  You should not be involved in the product
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  evaluation.
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  And so this is now the,
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  fourth
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  big paper that's been done on Entebbe. The
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  first one,
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  came out of Polk County,
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  which showed a twenty three percent neuro intact
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  survival for pediatric cardiac arrest.
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  As many people know, the number in most
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  places is under ten percent.
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  Another big study came out of Denver, which
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  showed that they went from fifty percent correct
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  dosing to eighty nine point four percent correct
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  dosing.
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  And then there is the last one now
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  coming out of, Denver, which is soon to
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  be published,
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  showing that using our CPR assist tool,
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  they've had significant increases in adult,
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  survival from cardiac arrest. So
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  starting from an a place where I made
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  a big error to now knowing that more
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  children and adults are living every single day
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  is something that's very humbling,
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  something that we're very proud of,
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  and something that we continue to work hard
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  so we can continue to improve even upon
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  those numbers.
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  I love that. Well, doctor Entebbe, I wanna
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  thank you for your time today. But before
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  I let you go, is there anything else
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  that listeners should know?
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  Yeah. I would say that, find me on
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  LinkedIn. I think LinkedIn's a great place for
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  all of us to,
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  interact. And
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  just I would say thank you guys for
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  all that you do, and, looking forward to
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  hearing some feedback. Thank you.