Recent content by NRNCEMT

Here's a blood pressure cuff tip for you guys, you can use a manual BP cuff as a tourniquet to slow a gush/steady stream to a trickle.

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OT: Hey man, add me to your yahoo, just click on the red Y under my name. I live in Evergreen, work in Tabor and Myrtle Beach.

Hello from Evergreen.

1st off, I don't judge my patients on any level when trying to help. Manuel cuff, did not see the bottle of percs, he said it was a torn muscle in his chest (from what the ED told him), eyes were PEARL, he didn't have any signs of weakness in any extremities. The reason I know quite a bit...

Ouch, that sucks man. Sounds like the time my partner and I were paged out to a chest pain with SOB at a Chinese restaurant, we get there and the lady had put too much hot mustard on her food. We were also fuming quite a bit.

Well...I am BLS, I don't do much roaming in the ALS section.

And just to tell you, I saw a medic do the heart squeeze on a pt. on a scene and I asked my medical director about it and he said that it was fine. Sorry if you don't like the tips I posted, they are ones that I've witnessed myself.

He said the numbness would come and go, not just localized but full body numbness. He noted that he had taken the 2 percs that morning and he came to me late that evening.

Well there it goes! Haha, thanks. I was wondering where it went since I didn't see it in my subscribed threads box anymore.

I posted a thread about a 23 yom having strange symptoms an hour ago, and now it's gone?!? Did I break some sort of rule?

No, he wasn't stoned...and as much as he was freaking out about the symptoms he would have lost his buzz a long time ago.

This isn't a call I went on, he said that he was feeling funny. Took his BP and it was 161/115 with a pulse of 110, 22 rpm. He wasn't diaphoretic and wasn't c/o of chest pains. But what struck me funny was that he said he was having bouts of full body numbness, even his scalp. I had him sit...

Here are a few tips I've learned so far. One way that I remember is "Sky over grass" = white over green & "Smoke over fire" = black over red. You can get a O2 sat on a pedi pt. by putting 2-3 fingers in the pulse ox. If you you have a CABG pt. and his/her staples bust open, you can...

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