Recent content by mississippimedic

EKG needed. HR, LOC, weak pulse, cool pale skin. Probably time for chemical or electrical cardioversion.

Even worse I know some in MS that have no L&D and their ER's are staffed with nurse pracs, no MD's ever.

I think it is a good idea as long as your company does not have an issue with it. At my former service the local hospitals supplied us with saline locks and blood tubes for us to go ahead and draw blood for their lab. Not every medic choose to do this but the ones who did were apprieciated by...

Why not just do both of them?

You probably wouldn't get a corpsman spot with less than a 4 year contract. As far as expectations while in, if you do an fmf spot just sit back and enjoy the ride and take good care of your Marines. If you will be in a competitive job market then the prior service will help some, but unless...

I'm not going to fight anyboby that's trying to get out the back door, better them than me going splat on the road.

I would prefer to give them a good 20-30 minute attempt onscene and if no change, pronounce them. But I follow the company policies.

This screams it takes about 30 seconds to throw a board under someone and put them on the stretcher, and unless the pt has major trauma for obvious signs of death/dnr, we have to transport. Also we have an onscene time limit of 20 minutes. Thanks for your input though.

If you were dc'd with honorable you may have some luck with some law enforcement agencies tactical units or you may have some luck with uscg reserve unit, which is a hard thing for me to say as I am a Navy man. If your dc was other than honorable, I have no idea what you can do, good luck...

After I get my tube and IV and 1st round of meds in I move to the back of the truck and head to the ER The medics should be using their monitor/defib No reason for cpr to be stopped that long You should follow your services protocals Also with any elderly pt that is dead or critical...

Drill instructors not being surly and sarcastic? Sweet and thoughtful DI's most be only in Canada. Mine were pretty hardcore, surprisingly the female instructor was by far the meanest, most hateful, ahole that I encountered at basic. I absolutely hated it then but a few years removed, it...

The last service I worked for still carried the Eoa, in the five years I was there I never heard of anybody using one. I think that service it was considered an als skill.

I would advise you to go active duty navy. You will most likely get a chance to see much of the world when you are sea duty. The navy is like any other job in the world, some days are good, some will suck. As a young man I would not recommend you to go to the reserves, If you don't get a fmf...

They may pay for your class starting on your first day, I know some places that will. This is basically a loan. If you work X days then they will forgive X amount of money on your loan untill you reach the end of the contract, but if you leave early you will be responsible for repayment.

I did the cbt recert last time, as far as I know it is pretty much the same as when testing for your initial cert. The questions seem to be the same as the ones on the old paper test. There is no fixed number of questions, when I finished mine the proctor aked how many questions I had, I told...