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    Sorry excuse for flight medics or anyone in this field.

    I used to be a basic in a state that let basics intubate. I am glad they took the ability to intubate away from basics. During the transition, a lot of people got a genuine statistical lesson on just how (not) beneficial intubations actually are.
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    Welcome to the new EMTLife.com!

    The identical issue is definitely back. Showing up on devices that have never viewed this forum. (Hence no cache issue) @ emtlife.com/styles/default/xenforo/logo.og.png
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    Welcome to the new EMTLife.com!

    The iOs favicon "apple-touch-icon?" thingy shows up as https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch&q=xenforo+logo&revid=1918564004&sa=X&ei=xLzmU8agOoabyAS7v4H4BQ&ved=0CBwQ1QIoAA&dpr=2&biw=1024&bih=672 I cant view pagesource currently on ios, so i cant be more specific.
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    How not to bomb an interview

    Long story short: Dirt poor elderly female would insert ANYTHING (and get it "stuck") on a daily basis for pleasure/medical attention. After 3 months of this, everyone (docs and all) stopped giving a damn After a long shift, i had enough too. I made a deal with her, take the two (different...
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    Nitro/Aspirin in conjunction

    Yep, but i dont know enough to say that this definitely isnt the case. I can only rely on what some preceptor said that one time. :(
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    How not to bomb an interview

    I told a story about the time i bought a patient a sex toy. I got hired.
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    Nitro/Aspirin in conjunction

    I was medic-taught that asa helps prinzmetal's because it alleviates vasospasm (txa2, can cause vasospasm?; formation inhibited via asa cox blocking :P) Matches up with your initial pharmacodynamics hypothesis.
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    Paramedic Random Tasks

    Bleeding shock
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    Online Medical Terminology Course

    https://www.dmu.edu/medterms/welcome/ Free, quick, simple, iOS as well. Other words to learn: I would familiarize yourself with state-ems-used drug names as well, generic and trade. heart anatomy, sa av his Purkinje parasympathetic and sympathetic divisions Common generics...
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    EKG Question From a Paramedic Student

    Things i see: the axis deviation, the pwaves without qrs, the qrs without a p wave, the slightly wide qrs, deep swave in III, the avl positive vs the avf negative deflections. My conclusion: 3rd degree (junctional escape focus) and left anterior fasicular block I would have liked...
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    Lost of consciousness = aox3?

    I really like that fractional notation option, im going to start using it.
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    Reflex Bradycardia with Atropine

    Atropine, which typically (and generally) functions to speed up the heart, usually increases the: oxygen demand, the glucose demand, the electrolytic demands, etc, of the parts of the heart (electrophysiologically) distal (but not limited to) from the SA and AV nodes. During a 2nd degree type...
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    Reflex Bradycardia with Atropine

    I disagree with this simplification. The significant functions of the AV node seem to be in creating a pause to allow complete filling of the ventricles, and to serve as a backup pacemaker. I disagree with your assessment, that during the hypothetical of atropine being given during a second...
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    Reflex Bradycardia with Atropine

    By blocking the vagal (parasympathetic/muscarinic/slow down) innervation, increasing the AV node rate past what the bundle of his (the below) can metabolically sustain while it is experiencing (whatever is causing the) mobitz II
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    Reflex Bradycardia with Atropine

    It is *possible* for a 2nd degree block mobitz II (below av node) to be almost indistinguishable from any sinus rhythm (more so in a single lead (II), and for a short strip while brady). Atropine could disrupt the av node (and then below), which could lead to a 3rd degree block. Which would also...
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