Recent content by Ecnalubma

hah. I remember it vivdly. GSW to Left Upper Extremity right on the subclavian artery. We go in and there is blood everywhere. Guy tells us he was "out back" shooting "crows" at 11:30 PM, and he's completely naked. We find a discharged shell for a 12 gauge in his living room and he's all alone...

Yea, I would have cut 'em on the road. Down to undies. Then after they are naked then I do my rapid assessment, then board them and go.

I'm going to go against the crowd and say quick clips. It's what I was mainly taught to use in school and it's what we use here at my service. I guess it all depends on what you use more. Because I'm quicker with clips than spider straps, I'm going to like them better. If done correctly they...

I hadn't worked with Kent and Tim, but I knew them from a few conferances and such we've had down here. Good guys. EASI's policy is always to wear seatbelts. They struck me as the kind that would follow that policy. Sad to see something like this.

hah. This is why I turned my certification clinic side also. I'm an EMT and a CNA, so if I'm working on the ambulance and this kind of thing happens, I can point to the fact I'm a CNA also.

We can sleep here and we run 24 on, 48 off. There are cots upstairs and couches and all that type. You cant really count on it though because it wont last long. It will always be interrupted by a call.

With a small bit of cross-training EMT-B can work as a CNA.

Be careful with oral glucose. This patient could go from conscious to comatose real quick and that brings about a large chance of aspiration. It doesn't sound like this is a blood glucose related incident, though it would be good to keep an eye on it if you can because the rumor is ETOH lowers...

"Vomit contained in appropriate location" :lol:

Yea. I got the FirstMed ones. I guess I felt a little better knowing they were blood-proof or whatever the term is. Specially cause I was in a pool of blood that night for a GSW trauma. ;) But yea, I don't think it really makes much of a differance.

Congrats. Finding a job does seem to be the hard part though. I passed in July and I still can't find a job :ph34r:

Sounds like hypoxia to me. As far as bagging a pt with tachypnea and low O2 sats, you did the right thing.