A blog written by Ivor Kovic.....about medicine, science, internet, soap bubbles, design, imaginary friends, books, music for robots, uncreative taglines...

CPR PRO® Device Reduces Rescuer Fatigue during CPR

We have just published an article in The Journal of Emergency Medicine titled “CPR PRO® Device Reduces Rescuer Fatigue during Continuous Chest Compression Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Randomized Crossover Trial Using a Manikin Model” This is the first trial to test the benefits of the device I have invented and have been developing the last couple […]

17 July 2013 | design, medicine, science | 1 Comment

Published 2 papers and 1 video

Just recently my colleague and I have published two research papers. I am very proud of the first one titled “Mobile phone in the Chain of Survival”, which was published after a lot of research in the Resuscitation journal. This short paper gives an overview of vast possibilities possessed by mobile phones to be of […]

25 June 2011 | iphone, medicine, science | No Comments

Year in Review 2008: Best in Health by WorldChanging

WorldChanging brings stories of the most important and innovative new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future. Their articles are just amazing, and for the end of 2008 they decided to rediscovered some of the great events, innovations, interviews and debates that they covered in the previous year. They wrote a series […]

5 January 2009 | ecology, internet, medicine | 1 Comment

Top 10 Most Read Medscape Articles by Medical Students

Medscape is a part of WebMD Health Professional Network and they offer specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals integrated medical information and educational tools. They also have a portal for medical students called Medscape Med Students, which I highly recommend. For the end of this year they published a list of top 10 […]

17 December 2008 | internet, medicine | No Comments

Kill Your Blog

At least this is what Paul Boutin suggests you do. He is a blogger himself, writing for the Valleywag blog, and for The New York Times, and for The Wall Street Journal, and for Slate, and for Wired magazine. And in the latest issue of Wired magazine he wrote a provocative and interesting article about […]

23 November 2008 | internet | No Comments

Medical Bloggers Survey Resume

It has been ten days since our “Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers” article was published in Journal of Medical Internet Research. During this period we have received numerous supportive e-mails from various bloggers and researchers. Also, many bloggers have written about our research, posted our abstract or slideshow presentation on […]

3 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments