Recent content by MedicOut

I thought I would resurrect this post as I am doing a presentation for a college course (Pre-PA, baby!) on this subject and would like to ask my fellow medics and EMT's a few questions.... 1) How many of you have an ICE contact or app on your cell? 2) In my experience, it is the police...

Passed! I passed! One thing for sure, I will never recertify by test again. Ever. :)

Harm or Good? Someone would have a pretty darn tough time convincing me that strapping a patient with a possible spinal fracture to a LSB and then proceeding to bounce them down the road in our bambalance is good prevention of further injury. But, we do it because it's our a$$ if we don't...

Why not? Cost practicality aside, I think it would be great if more people knew CPR. Not only would it be beneficial to the patient as CPR was initiated prior to the average response time of an ambulance, it would give us (the professionals) more resources at the scene. Having worked in...

Oh yes, I've definitely done the icing trick. In this particular case, that will involve the family actually giving a c$%p about the patient.

Cost Not that cost ever changes how we treat.....but did you guys know that a single vial of glucagon costs around $65.00? I am the medication guru at my service so I know all the costs of this stuff. Crazy, huh? We have a brittle diabetic who has no veins and he has this window of...

Yikes! I just took the NREMT-P test to recert. Holy cow! There were some really crazy questions....I almost said "WTF!" out loud, but luckily caught myself. I took the written test for my original certification. Walked out thinking I bombed it. The test shut off at 79 questions and I don't...