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    Flight/HEMS

    Yeah we had ours on floor rails with a helmet on there way now way to get between the monitor and the center post
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    Flight/HEMS

    Depending on where you mount it.
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    Flight/HEMS

    A balloon pump in an AS350be is no pony ride either.
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    Critical Care Topic of the Month

    I appreciate the deescalation. I have enough people to argue with already.
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    Critical Care Topic of the Month

    My bad. Old habits.
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    Critical Care Topic of the Month

    Peripheral vasoconstriction.
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    Critical Care Topic of the Month

    I don't disagree with some if what you said. Repeating the levophed euphemism; however is ridiculous and it reveals a stunning misunderstanding of how the drug should be used. Note I stated fluid and press simultaneously. Making the tank smaller IS treating tachycardia. Your hypothetical...
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    FP-C without a class...

    Kyle Faudree's FPC A Comprehensive Review. If I was to redo it for the first time that is all i would use.
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    Critical Care Topic of the Month

    Vasopressin is the most powerful peripheral vasoconstrictor. It is last line for us because it increases afterload. Trauma is typically going to be your only subset of otherwise healthy patients.
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    Flight/HEMS

    The astar has way more patient accessibility. The center-post rear of the pilot in a 407 takes up any extra "room" you might have with an equipment heavy patient "e.g. balloon pump, vented"
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    Critical Care Topic of the Month

    For sepsis we currently treat hypotension with pressors and fluid simultaneously. We don't "fill the tank" we press early. And we use levophed first. Vasopressin is our last intervention.
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    Pre-Hospital Chest Tubes/Thoracostomy

    While i understand the logic of replacing blood. Whether or not you carry it, it isn't like blood pooling in their chest is part of their circulating volume. It it just because now you can quantify it that it bother you? Replace blood with fluid 3:1
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    Inboxed you.

    Inboxed you.
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    Pre-Hospital Chest Tubes/Thoracostomy

    No longer with AMC. Im with a family owned company. Our rotor program is just about ready to launch.
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