Recent content by FiremanMike

FWIW I had to look it up because the king airway is so out of date now that I couldn’t remember.. King isn’t designed to intubate through..

Hang on, lets let our ACLS trained paralegal impart their wisdom..

I’m at “weak troll” or bot with this one.

My dude - the disrespect started exactly on your end.

I have quite a lot of experience of working with the state board of pharmacy and DEA to ensure compliance for tracking controlled medications.. you?

I'm really not sure where you came from or why you ended up here, but you really seem to be out of your element here..

You are wrong.

Ketamine is widely used for chemical restraint in EMS, protocols written by physicians. There’s plenty of support for ketamine.

Long term maybe, but they’re generally not first line in the acute phase.

You may be right there, time will tell. Local major city (30+ ALS transport units, 30+ ALS engine companies, over 120k ems runs annual) did a DSD trial a few years ago. Numbers are fuzzy, but I believe it was something like 30 cases over 2 years with no appreciable improvement in outcome -...

Extreme example - In the months leading up to this run, this guy has been working 100 hour weeks to support his family because his wife has been feeling terrible and unable to work. The day before this incident, this guys wife found out she had stage 4 cancer. The run before this incident was...

What an interesting example of the topic at hand.. If I were to take this post out of context I’d think “wow this tigger guy is an unhinged ******* to go off on a longstanding member of this forum” much the same as seeing a 3 second video clip of a firefighter going off on a patient.. Alas...

I’m not saying this is the case, because there’s not enough info to say, but are you honestly saying you’ve NEVER lost your cool with an unruly frequent flier??

And of course grandma comes out of the woodwork to say she’s appalled. Look I don’t condone cussing at a 10 year old, but just remember - 1. Read between the lines, “it’s like this with you every week” - abuse of 911? Pain in the ***? Patient verbally/physically abusive? We ALL have our...

Respectfully, I disagree.. Leaving the patient prone, adding a spit mask, then “strapping the crap out of him” turned a medically sound decision into reckless and negligent behavior.