Recent content by BloodNGlory02

This actually happened in my county. The ambulance was operating under normal conditions and thought the car with the "victim" was coming to a stop and proceeded thru the light. the car actually struck the ambulance. Newspapers never report everything or 100% truth, we all know this.

Doing a cric isnt going to make the chest rise and fall if a combitube isnt doing it either. Did you try to confirm tube placement in a different way? Did you have gastric sounds? distention?

You can give it, but what are the chances its going to reach the heart before its half life "expires"? 2-3 seconds isnt long enough if you're using the tib.

My department recently put the toughbooks into service using the zoll program rescuenet. its pretty handy, helps those who can't spell for crap. Its a little frustrating at first until you have it "customized" to your squad. We had to add a lot of things here and there, but its pretty fuctional...

Why would you I.O? You can't give adenosine thru it, why bother?

Negative on sepsis, and as for the ice paks, the hospital PACKED her in ice on arrival.

Dispatched to the local skilled nursing facility for a fever. *sigh* U/A: 32 year old female, hx Huntingtons disease, pt's usually alert but aphasic, started with a fever previous night, MD called, urine cultured, no result yet, pt flailing around more than usual, almost combative like, med...

The answer is going to differ from place to place, but if he was still warm, we have to work 'em regardless of rhythm. Not likely its going to be a save, but it's our protocol (for now anyways). We wouldnt be on scene 20 min with asystole to determine DOA either.

We have to call med control for use.

Online Med control: sodium bicarb, SubQ epi, pediatric morphine dose, valium, lidocaine Offline protocols: asa, ntg, glucagon, d50, 1:10,000 epi, atropine, amiodarone, dopamine, albuterol, adult morphine, IV fluids, combitube, intubation, IO peds and adults, glucometer, "clearing" cspine, defib...

Like everyone else, im not sure why they would let Joe Blow start IVs on his wife. There are things like outpatient clinics and home care nurses for these reasons. Not sure the port would work with all MS medications. I just can't imagine being stuck Q3-4 days for new access though.

Im at the hospital 15-2300. Should be interesting follow up to Saturday night when we had a 21 y/o drunk come in with a sprained ankle. Swung at 2 nurses, spit in anothers face, ended up leaving at 0800 with the cops. Hopefully the nurses request to press charges will go thru.

we have pedi-mates in all 3 squads but our newest has the childseat in the airway seat.

They arent neccessarly bad. I've used them once and they were actually very helpful. You just have to be 100% in your assesment if you're considering them. Some reasons they might be "bad" are once you inflate them, generally you dont deflate them in the field (risk of PE) you have to know all...

I did the Six Flags thing in IL. It was a fun job, but you didnt see much in terms of skills, basically bandaid administration. I'd look into security, ER tech's (although most want IV experience), hospital security, stadiums (baseball/football) they might staff a first aid room,