TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week.

This week's topics include boarding in the emergency department (ED), attempts to clear secretions in ventilated patients, cold-stored platelets, and devices to do CPR.

Program notes:

0:35 Devices to do CPR versus manual

1:37 About 60% of U.S. population