Recent content by medic89

We briefly, and I mean very briefly, went over other colloids in class besides blood, and from what I remember, it basically boiled down to the best substitute for blood is blood, and the others weren't worth the money to be put on the trucks in our rural EMS system.

Thanks everyone, the main reason that I was asking is that the ITLS book, my Paramedic book(Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets), and a friends Intermediate book(all published by Brady, by the way) all say to stabilize the flail segment if paradoxical motion is noted. PHTLS(published...

I was looking through the PHTLS Version 6 book for the class I have tomorrow, and it states "Efforts to stabilize the flail segment by sandbags or other means is contraindicated." Now, according to everything that I have read and remember from class, we are taught to stabilize the segment with...

I'm also in Illinois, and we're allowed Glucose Monitoring, Baby ASA, Epi-Pens, Oral glucose, and Albuterol Nebs, along with assisting with a patient's own prescribed Nitro.

I'll agree with the 2nd Degree Type II, 2:1 conduction.....It's definitely not a 3rd Degree, all of the PRI's are the same.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176864/Paramedic-tried-buy-wine-wearing-thong-supermarket-staff-refused-serve-uniform.html I know people in uniform get paid to strip, but this is a bit much. :P

On the way back from a 2AM Psych Trip: Me: Dispatch, L2 is out for fuel. Dispatch: 10-4 L2 out for fuel at 0447. Me: Thanks, Dispatch, I wasn't expecting a reply at this wonderful hour. Dispatch: Neither was I. About 10 Minutes Later: Me: Dispatch, L2 will be in route to station...