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Sometimes thinking is hard. In EMS and in medicine in general, there are a lot of things to remember when encountering a patient. What are the right drug dosages? How do we calculate body surface area for burns? What about CPR? The answer to all of these is known as cognitive offloading. What this does is allow the brain to focus on things that aren’t complicated, which will lead to better results an outcomes. How does one accomplish this? Like so many other things in life, there are many ways. Today we review a few of these techniques.

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