Recent content by jjesusfreak01

Sounded like they didn't want to let him start clinical medicine until he turned 18.

Ahh, the "Mentalist" method...

The correct answer is that you should dress burns according to local protocols which hopefully coordinates with your local burn center's guidelines. The goal is that your patient's burns are dressed as the burn center would want them, so that they don't have to focus on immediately fixing your...

In my basic class I believe they told us to expect something like 60% attrition by the end of the class. Most of us stuck through it, which they said was very unusual. In my EMT-I class, only 75% of the class ended up passing the class final, though all those who passed the final passed the...

I'll answer the original question... I have ridden with a variety of partners. I am perfectly happy, and often prefer, to do lifts into the stretcher myself (I know that I will do it right). That said, some of my partners prefer to do 2-person lifts all of the time. If they want to do that, I...

My system allows 10 minutes max onscene for traumas. You start your IVs in the truck, you complete the assessment in the truck, you haul *** to the hospital. Even if they introduced prehospital ultrasound here, there is no way its going to be done onscene or before stabilizing the patient.

Well, she wasn't progressing with a standard cushings reflex, if it was a bleed. Any change in respirations following the change in mental status? Did you happen to check pupillary size and response? I don't really want to try and diagnose a nSTEMI in the field, I would rather wait to see what...

I personally like the idea of a PE. Winded, low SPO2, hx of cardiac occlusion, acute onset, depression in the anterior precordial leads with no reciprocal changes. He needs a quick trip to the hospital, and if he uses the words "pain" and "chest" in the same sentence he gets ASA and maybe some...

Not disagreeing with you. Hospice patient the other day on 4L NC, no COPD history, satting 92%, reports SOB. Patient was mouthbreathing. Moving the NC to their mouth bumped SPO2 to 98%, pt no longer reported SOB.

Isolate the patient's arm from the truck by resting it on your leg, and your feet on the stretcher. Expose the patient's arm as much as possible. Palpate the patients arms for a good brachial pulse. Put the stethoscope directly over that spot. If you can, lift the arm above your leg with the...

Tell them they should know how to do good CPR so they can tell when the nurses are doing it wrong :)

Hey, could be worse...they could have gotten a pathologist...you know where i'm going with that.

Wheelchair transports need to be covered by insurance companies. Period.

Got flagged down today (90 degrees out) while riding IFT for a passed out homeless guy. Not that I was thinking it, but one of the bystanders handed me the phone with the 911 dispatcher and they made sure to remind me not to give the patient any food or liquids.

In their opinion... This is the problem. At least where I live, ambulance transports require a physician or a nurse to sign off on it as medically necessary. It should never be the responsibility of an EMT Basic or a dispatcher with no medical training to determine whether a patient should be...