Recent content by EMS14

I would really like to delete my post number 3 but I am unable to, the edit button does not show up. So everyone can disregard it, and if an admin reads this they can delete it.

I am truly sorry for the incorrect information, I was just going off what I thought I remembered from my Basic class.

<Moderator Note: User states this information may not be correct> That is the way I understand it as well. Monophasic from one pad to the other and biphasic is from both pads and "meets in the middle" so to speak.

Our service actually had something like this happen several years ago. Our ambulance was parked outside the garage we usually park in at the ER because we didn't have a patient, we were just dropping off some paperwork. A mentally disturbed woman that was in the park across the street saw the...

Is carrying the dummy off limits? Another idea may be walking forward up the stairs with your arms around the dummy, so just its legs would be dragging up the stairs; that might be easier on your back than leaning back and dragging it up the stairs.

You wouldn't happen to know the total number of didactic hours for their basic class would you? Does that also have a clinical component then too? I would think it would have to.

In South Dakota I/85 are only trained with Combitube intubations, and, I believe, I/99 have all the advanced airways available to them short of the actual surgical procedures.

I realize now that my original post may have made me sound incredibly lazy asking you to do all of the research work for me. This is not what I intended. What I really wanted to know if there is any one individual or group that is a major proponent of no prehospital intubations and if there is...

it is actually a researched based academic argument officially

I am writing a decent sized research based paper for my composition class. I decided that I would like to discuss the issue of intubations (specifically ET) in the prehospital realm by paramedics, advocating, of course, for the medics :). I was wondering if there are any sort of "industry...

Thanks! I do believe that was what I was thinking of. You wouldn't happen to remember if you ever heard any sort of diagnosis from the ER docs or from your medics as to what was specifically going on?

I'm definitely guilty of checking out the veins too.

That is what I was saying in my last post; they are not likely not true seizures because of the clear EEG. I am just incredibly fascinated by the potential that all of the symptoms presented are potentially psychologic in origin. I do thank you for humoring me and discussing this with me.

Conversion Disorder I've been doing a little research on my own and I actually came across it in my college psychology book. Conversion Disorder. It would tend to fit with the seizure activity presenting with a clear EEG and the amnesia symptoms. Yes or no? I'm just tossing out ideas.

Has anyone had any experience with anything similar in their experience? I guess that the intensivist is considering other things, there has been a psychiatric consult, an MRI is ordered They did catch an episode on the EEG and it was normal as far as they said. The patient was diagnosed with...