Recent content by carpentw

It sucks when people try to micromanage patient care (ie every person on CPAP requires a code-3 response to the hospital.) Friggin idiot!

I think the Medics in British Columbia would beg to differ... ;)

We have haldol in the field. No need to call, but its an auto QA/QI if you administer it.

I'll play devils advocate here... I think a rather large advantage to the "rescue" airways is the hypoxia factor associated with ETI. With a king or LMA you can quickly secure an airway and move on to other issues, like ventilating the patient! Additionally, if you have adult and pedi IO...

The major difference between the King LT and LTSD is the addition of a posterior tube which is used to decompress the stomach to help guard against aspiration. As a basic, I guess it wouldn't matter which one you got, but I would recommend the LTSD because that additional tube really makes it...

My service has 8 x 24 hour shifts then you are on your own! Just work on keeping the red stuff inside the body and you will be fine! :wacko:

Good luck to you. Its the toughest job you will ever love. FYI about 95% of the people in the peace corps have a BA or BS.

Peace corps has a few very specific programs for EMTs which mostly involve education. HIV/Aids/STDs etc.. Or disaster coordination ie who has a ladder and who has rope in the village. Your skills will definetly be used by people in your village if you get a remote assignement. People will...

Well, metoclopramide, otherwise known as Reglan here in the states acts on a different part of the body than Zofran does. Zofran blocks serotonin receptors in the medulla oblongada. Reglan is a gastroprokinetic agent which is a fancy way of saying it works in the gut. I don't know much about...

Personally, having worked for the American EMS system for several years, I can tell you that the amount of autonomy given to the various levels of providers varies quite largely from service to service. I work for two different service and one allows RSI's and several other extremely invasive...

At the system I currently work at we staff one Firefighter/EMT-P and one Firefighter/EMT-I on every ambulance. A small private ambulance staffed usually with EMT-Basics and some EMT-Intermediates handle all the hospital to hospital, discharges, etc... Every 911 call for service gets a...

failed for me in the US as well... Must be blocked in the US

what an idiot..

Good luck in class

Sounds interesting.