Recent content by Gymchick

I've been told the COPD one too - never lay them flat, and be very careful about giving them oxygen because of the hypoxic drive. Also, don't suction more then 10 seconds or the patient will suffocate because you've sucked all of their oxygen out. (That one is from class.) Also, don't...

Well, as I mentioned in my other thread...I was told that if I put a BP cuff on the arm where a patient had a renal dialysis shunt...it would have killed him.

My eyes! My eyes! Must bleach my brain with clorox, stat! As for the original topic - Jeez, I wish there were a universal answer to...everything. My paramedic AND the nurse both made it sound as if the patient would definitely have died if I took a BP on the arm with the renal dialysis...

Gps I bought a GPS which I use when driving. I also have a mapbook because sometimes the GPS doesn't work - it will say "lost satellite signal 1.35 minutes ago" or whatever. It's a TomTom and it's okay, except that it doesn't say what street I am turning on to - it will say "In 800 yards...

She was one of those generally crabby miserable nurses who make our life so much more pleasant,:glare:, but she was right to be angry in this case - the last thing a healthcare provider wants to do is hand over their patient to someone who might make a really bad mistake. I asked the...

I normally would ask a patient, but in this case he was A&0 times one and he could barely speak. He had no idea where he was or why he was there. All he knew was his name. Thanks for the advice! Actually, I had been told that about a mastectomy before - but again, this was not in my textbook...

...barely. I am very new as an EMT. I went to a hospital to pick up a patient and I went to take his blood pressure, and as I put the cuff on his arm, a nurse said, "No, not on that arm! He has a dialysis shunt on that arm! You could have killed him!" Needless to say I was horrified. There...