Recent content by E tank

Pretty sure this guy is just cutting and pasting stuff into ChatGPT and seeing what spits out...kinda funny actually...maybe even a bot?

Just tell 'em you saw it on the internet...

I just use these...after you drop the pt off you can go water the beets.

Yeah, you'd never want to try that.

going out on a limb here but I suspect that with the management of CAD and ischemic cardiomyopathy becoming more sophisticated beyond surgery (CA stenting/drugs/electrophysiologic intervention) it will become more and a more of a thing going forward. Sicker and sicker people are living longer...

Pressure set too high? Do you mean BiPAP? Patients can get a sense of 'drowning' because of the continual inspiratory flow and inability to completely exhale. Freaks some people out, especially when they're in distress already and maybe disoriented by hypoxia and/or hypercapnia.

No argument...but it does for less what a lot of systems here do for more...what people have to come to terms with is the fact that EMS is a money pit forever and always...delusional to think it will ever be anything else...but is that worse than the alternative....

Tons of variables but whatever the solution involves, if the number of non-essential/frivolous transports to the hospital isn't meaningfully addressed, meaningful resolution can't happen IMO. I like the attention paid to the 'response time' fixation for even non time sensitive problems too. The...

Crystalloid is a finicky thing in general...Normal Saline is anything but normal...If I'm anticipating giving anyone more than 2 liters (extremely rare) it's Plasmalyte or Normosol, and those just to prime a rapid infuser device. In my experience those two make managing the...

No patients benefit from multiple liters of NS...

....And you're not going to rupture a AAA by palpating the abdomen...smh....

That's the most ignorant scenario I've ever heard of. Borders on hazing if they were actually serious.

'86? Grumpy Boomer here...still remember the 'new car smell' in those....no way would I say restore something so recent. Now something like this: Hell yes, bills paid or not...

Would have been a fine call if the guy didn't die. Droperidol is a great drug for that kind of thing and 5 mg in a 36 year old contributing to that outcome strongly suggests other stuff in play as well. Should have been just fine, even prone. Optics of the body cam footage are pretty poor as...

Well...doesn't say that...but the raw observational data do beg the question. And the reality is, publishing these raw numbers with no context or controls is not infrequently to service a particular narrative and because of the disingenuous motives, it frequently back fires. When sincere care...