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Taking my National Reg for medic in a week. Any tips or advice on what to focus on study wise? Have you that have taken it noticed a lot of random A&P questions? I'm also noticing in some of my practice exams that they ask a lot about paramedic meds that I never learned about in school...Meds we...

Yeah...need a little help too I'm finishing up my clinicals in the ER and am trying to "master :)" IV insertions before I'm done. Sometimes it goes great....... but the last couple pts I had I blew the vein. I'm at a 15-20 degree angle. Once you see the "flash" what does everybody else do? I'm...

wish me luck :wacko:

Communication is KEY! Talking about it with your significant other is crucial. I decided almost a year ago to start this whirlwind carreer path. I made sure we had an understanding and that she was totally onboard prior to me making the commitment. So far so good....I've done EMT, volunteer...

I don't have any samples.... but picture a normal sinus rhythm.... going anlong just fine.... then here and there there are runs of these QRS's with no p waves in front....same morphology as the rest of them.

I don't think it was PVCs. The QRS complex was identical to the ones that had the p wave in front. I was thinking some kind of junctional..... but I don't know.... All my experience is med school practice strips:blush:

I work for a bls volunteer FD. We ran a call the other day and I saw an "odd" rhythm when the medics hooked up the pt. Here's what happened: pt was drinking rum and took 6 ambien. bp was 140/72, HR was around 60. He was pretty out of it lying supine on the kitchen floor... but was able to...

11 Weeks into medic school....and loving every minute of it. I've been doing really well on our weekly tests and the info learned is actually staying in my head (for the most part). I saw the post else where about practicing IVs on eachother, or not, in school. We did....and it was pretty...

study material I too am starting medic school in 3 weeks. Are there any websites I can go to to purchase things like flash cards or study guides for things like drugs and A&P terms? thanks!

Thanks!! thanks to everybody for the congrats! Aaron

I have a rad wife....so I know it'll be a little trying at times but she understands it's all for the greater good and for a realatively short amount of time. And I already have a baby...... that'll be the hardest part not being able to hang out with her as much as I want to.

ETS in Santa Cruz, CA

Got into Medic school! I'm stoked but I guess I'm saying good bye to my personal life 8.18.08. Aaron

I've had friends and family in EMS while growing up. I've done a few water rescues at the beach growing up but I really knew I wanted to change carreer paths when I performed the heimlich maneuver on a good friend of mine a year and a half ago. He was choking on sushi (the seaweed part) and I...

thanks.... that's where I will most likely be testing. I live in santa cruz too. aaron