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Dr. Jeff Jarvis interviews Dr. Tanner Smida about his PhD defense and research on cardiac arrest resuscitation.

Join Dr. Jeff Jarvis as he interviews podcase friend and frequent contributor, now-Dr Tanner Smida for the first of a two-part interview where we discuss his defense of his PhD. Dr Smida discusses four papers that inform cardiac arrest resuscitation, as well as lessons he learned about conducting well-designed observational studies. Although his dissertation was built around only 4 papers, here is Dr Smida’s entire bibliography: 1. Smida T, Willson C, Salerno J, Weiss L, Salcido DD. Can you get there from here? An analysis of walkability among PulsePoint CPR alert dispatches. Resuscitation. 2020 Mar 1;148:135-139. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2019.12.038. Epub 2020 Jan 18. PMID: 31962177. 2. Patterson PD, Weiss LS, Weaver MD, Salcido DD, Opitz SE, Okerman TS, Smida TT, Martin SE, Guyette FX, Martin-Gill C, Callaway CW. Napping on the night shift and its impact on blood pressure and heart rate variability among emergency medical services workers: study protocol for a randomized crossover trial. Trials. 2021 Mar 16;22(1):212. doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05161-4. PMID: 33726840; PMCID: PMC7962082. 3. Smida T, Koller AC, Menegazzi JJ, Salcido DD. Early cytotoxic lymphocyte localization…

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