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So to highlight my main concerns, anyone switch career paths and regret it down the line? What kind of career were you in before you went into emergency medicine, thanks

Title may be a little bit misleading since I'm not currently working in LE. I'm 27 and graduated from the police academy 2 years ago. In NJ you can sponsor yourself through the academy and the placement after graduation was above 98%. About half of the people that were already hired by a PD...

I posted this on the first page but nobody responded. I didn't feel anything 'pop' but it definitely started to feel different after a while, guess it kind of makes sense now

Just wanted to update in case anyone cared, the pt went back home a week ago. She spoke with one of our members and is a little distraught about the whole incident. Apparently we (probably me) broke a rib and it punctured a lung. I don't know 100% but its what I heard down the grape vine...

It was a CPR save, only way I'll find out is if she tells one of our members I guess.

If I hear anything I'll update this thread, thanks for everyone's replies.

It's always safe to say someone is exaggerating on lying online, i think I'm describing it fairly though. The medic said he's never see that much blood coming out like that before. And I don't know the size of the portable suction container but it filled up half way. Also on the big squirt from...

usafmedic45 - there was A LOT of blood, I watched a video on youtube of ruptured varices and would say the amount of blood in the suction/on the floor could have been consistent with ruptured varices. Maybe I didn't describe just how much blood came from her mouth, about 2-3 were used to wipe...

Would broken ribs cause the same type of bleeding? First time doing chest compressions so I have nothing to compare the feeling of the Pt's rib cage to but a few times during compressions the chest didn't rebound instantly, I paused for a second for the chest to rise and continued like normal.

The blood was bright red coming out and filled up 1/2 of the portable suction container. The blood only squirted in the air twice, the tube was being suctioned just prior to the shock on both occasions. The other few times it was just kind of leaking everywhere. Hx - non smoker 50yo, unknown...

Long time lurker first time CPR so I thought I would share. About an hour ago a cardiac arrest call went out right down the street from me. I arrived first with the police and we went into the house and started CPR. We delivered a shock inserted an OPA, at about this time the medics, duty...

well hes guaranteed to do it at least once.. after that, who knows :) the reason they rob convenience stores is because they know its an easy score, when they could make ten fold the amount of money if they robbed a firearm store.. but you know, the guys in the gun store... have guns About...

What i meant by retraining with the glock specifically was because it seems a lot of people use to having a manual safety and or carrying a revolver on duty take a little bit of extra time to realize you can't touch the trigger at all until you're ready to shoot, like i said, the statement was...

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theres nothing wrong with the glock, people just need to realize its not their old revolver with a 12 pound trigger, or 911 with grip/thumb safety i think when you transfer over, not knowing anything about your knowledge on firearms should take a little course or re-train other than just...