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I take a bow before superior knowledge. Will take a look at links when I'm more awake and compare with my books. Back later

And 1st degree heart block = tri-fascicular block

We have a large service over here. Relationships, marriages and break ups are rife. It makes your relationship very public which in turn puts it under a constant microscope. This puts a lot of strain on you. I've seen some happy relationships but not many. I have seen lots and lots of breakups...

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We follow uk resus guidelines http://www.resus.org.uk/pages/GL2010.pdf 30:2 rate of 100-120 per minute. 2 mins CPR rhythm check max 5 seconds then back on the chest 2 mins etc Emphasis is minimal time off chest. Vf/pulseless vt - Epinephrine after 3rd shock then every 3-5 mins...

Our guidelines are no rythmn check until after 1st round of CPR (2 mins) at which point he was in PEA. I would guess that was what he arrested into otherwise I doubt we'd have got Rosc.

A couple of months ago I did a resus on an 82 yr old man. He had the arrest just before we walked in. 3 rounds of CPR no drugs no defib we got Rosc. 12 lead no stemi, Gcs3. Took him to hospital. Yesterday got called to an 82 year old man fallen can't get up hx of cardiac arrest post nstemi...

Uk They are fasing out EMTs here in the UK. Unfortunately they are moving towards having a paramedic and a driver/emergency care assistant/A&E support, which has it's own issues. To join EMS these days you need to go to uni. Some services do still do inhouse training but they are being fased...

Ha I have used all of those. I got caught out with "don't worry until I look worrried" unfortunately it went wrong!

LE non emergent Excuse my ignorance but what is LE? I can guess it's non emergency but can't figure out what LE stands for :unsure:

Hang ups No over here we are 3 very seperate services. We only call for police or fire if needed. Police and fire very rarely respond to their own hang ups.

Worldwide I can confirm it's worldwide. We have Ambo woman's *** and ambo guy overhang here in the uk

Thanks for your reply Thanks for getting back to me. Wow it must be quite tough. How are you dealing with the loss of skills? They've come a long way in 40 years so i'm sure it won't be long before these issues are resolved. Seems odd to recruit paramedics and EMT's when they can't use any...

Are they still recruiting? Hi dtrojan I'm thinking of a move and wondered if your guys are still recruiting? and what the deal is. I've been looking around and it seems like a relatively new service out there. Would a female paramedic be dealing with purely female "issues" or are they...

Wow I have countless calls I could add A nurse who called 999 because she had a cold A regular who used to insert biro pens into his penis then call A man who used to call 8-10 times a day for various reasons like he was hungry, couldn't find his remote control and was cold. Not sure...