Recent content by Slinky

You are personally storing protected health information? That is asking for trouble.

I know the abdominal pain thing was not your question, but not medicating abdominal pain is archaic and I wanted to reiterate that point so you wouldn't think that one misguided medic's attitude on the matter was gospel. Then I found your protocols online and saw that pain medication for...

I believe that the morphine induced hypotension due to histamine release is seen predominately at high levels of morphine administration (studies done at 1 mg/kg during anesthesia). Isn't most morphine induced hypotension at the EMS street level due to other factors, such as hypovolemia? I...

All jokes aside, the Boise area of Idaho is great. I used to work for Ada County Paramedics and it is an awesome place to work. Starting salary (without experience) is the low 40s but the cost of living is very reasonable. Protocols are progressive with almost everything you could imagine...

I'm confused as to why you would even think about forcing an alert and oriented adult into spinal immobilization. A distracting injury is a contraindication to clearing c-spine, not overriding a patient's right to refuse any treatment. If you feel c-spine precautions are necessary, strongly...