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b'Dan Davis. The art of ART.\\n\\nI was at Luna Park in Sydney last year. It is an aging un-reconstructed theme park with rickety roller coasters, a whole bunch of noisy rides and fairground attractions. It is all very retro to the point of being almost ironically cool. There is a reason I am telling you about Luna Park which I will come back to in a moment.\\n\\nMy last visit had a different silver lining. Instead of reluctantly buying toxic candy floss for my progeny I was getting a whole load of educational goodness at the \\u201cResus @ the Park\\u201d conference. 3 days of creative teaching and some very cool pre-conference workshops. It was at on of those that I met Dan Davis. I am very glad I did. \\n\\nDan is the brains behind ART. Advanced Resuscitation Training; born by accident in San Diego and a very interesting initiative. Dan Davis was a geneticist looking for a magical gene. One thing led to another and BOOM, it is CPR for grown ups. (I am counting YOU as that sort of grown up.)\\n\\nNow many of my favourite people in the FOAMed world are trying to push this all resus stuff forward. We know BLS/ALS/ACLS is a bit of a cookie cutter approach, one size fits all, don\\u2019t ask questions just follow the protocol stuff. We know why that is useful, we also know where it fails. It is very like the ATLS/EMST approach to trauma. In fact its a bit like Luna Park. It still works. There are much better ways of doing it but it still works. So do we want to fix it? Yes we do. Can we fix it? Yes we can. \\n\\nMany people are trying to fix it in many ways. Dan\\u2019s story is a great example of one of the ways to try and fix it. This being a FOAMed podcast we would like it to be fixed for free. We like free things. Most people do. \\n\\nDan was working in University of California and he was researching and he came up with a cool thinking wo/man\\u2019s version of advanced resuscitation training and it seems to work. Very well. \\n\\nThat would be interesting enough. But what happened next when he started giving it away for free is another story. Have you ever heard of Students T-Test? Rack your brains, it probably came up in your high school years. Basically a smart scientist, working for Guinness 110 years ago in Dublin, came up with a clever statistical tool for small samples. You don\\u2019t know the scientists name. It was Gosset. Guinness forbade their employees from publishing and so he published under a pseudonym. A statistics paper published under a pseudonym. Hilarious.\\n\\nDan found out that, as an employee of University of California, he didn\\u2019t own the intellectual property. They did. They could have sued him for giving it away for free. (Take note all you disruptors, innovators, inventors and revolutionary bio-statisticians.)\\n\\nDan is a laid back, chilled out, relaxed dude from California. That doesn\\u2019t stop you being sued though. The good news is that his employers were pretty laid back about things too and the next thing you know his career has taken a very significant turn. Now he has a start up company and he doesn\\u2019t pay himself. I think that\\u2019s progress. I\\u2019m not sure though.\\n\\nHidden in this podcast is a lesson for us all, a lesson about innovation, intellectual property, accelerometers and stout. A good idea is a beautiful thing but it is not always enough. There are lots of ways to improve things. I liked Dan\\u2019s teaching, I liked his system, I like him. It is less anarchic than FOAMed as we know, he is working within the system, but he is a disruptive influence in there. Go Dan. International educationalist and intellectual resuscitationist.\\n\\nDan, like us here at the Jellybean Podcast, likes to talk. He also likes to listen. If you want to get in touch with him drop him a line at DanielDavisMD@gmail.com\\n\\nThanks to Dan for coming along to the podcast. And thanks to the legendary west coast surf bands the Dimensions for making the excellent track Firewater. Find that on iTunes. Find Dan at the University of California.'