Cognitive Bias in EMS
The 12 cognitive biases that quietly sabotage prehospital care—and the real field stories behind them. Erik and Matt break down anchoring, confirmation bias, premature closure, availability bias, framing, overconfidence, diagnostic momentum, action bias, search satisfaction, Dunning-Kruger, authority bias, and sunk cost. Includes the "anxiety" patient in florid DKA, the SVT that was actually WPW, a hidden STEMI during extrication, and Erik's unforgettable miss: a necrotic appendix he found while lecturing his medics about not anchoring.
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