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    Does Any One Squeeze the Air Out of their I.V. Bag???

    Agreed. Overseas it was not uncommon to have a patient on fluids in another room, out of sight, while treating other patients and lose track of the exact time to change a bag. I would spike it, turn it upside down, push the air into the line, flip it back over, purge the line like normal and...
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    Study: Paramedics must avoid too much care

    Which patients in the field don't require ALS yet die? So many of these studies have been conducted in big cities within minutes of a major hospital that the whole BLS is superior to ALS has just become hollow sounding in my ears. Unless someone purchased the study, which I didn't, there is...
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    Atropine & Bradycardia

    First time poster. Thank you for letting me participate. To the OP. For me there are really only a couple of immediate considerations here. 1) Are we getting end organ perfusion? 2) Is this a cardiac even? Why do we care if his heart is beating at all? Or adequately? End organ...
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