Recent content by Swimfinn

we were a crew of 2 at intermediate level though..

call for ALS or no?

she is on 2mg of diazepam with each meal and 9 units of Lantus every morning. bp up to 118/94 hr up to 110 SPO2 99% no new meds. father is pretty sure she has been doing her meds correctly pupils were PEARL when she wasn't "absent"

iv and glucose started. bgl up to 81. spiked a bag of fluids. patient keeps having what appear to be petit mal nonconvulsive seizures. nearest hospital is 30min away going code 3. what now? Edit: also, after talking to the father, it sounds like her typical seizures are myoclonic, not petit mal...

she has an hx of type 1 diabetes and epilepsy. she was doing her pre-meal blood sugar check. last thing she ate was 14 hours ago. steak and asparagus with a glass of milk. edit: she is A&O to person and place

oh do you? care to explain?

You are dispatched at 813 in the morning to a local rest area for a 12 year old girl with a low blood sugar. You arrive on scene with a crew of 2 AEMTs 6 mins later to find the girl with a blood sugar of 39. You also obtain this set of vitals: HR 91 BP 104/77 SpO2 100% on outside air As you...

Do the roles and responsibilities of an EMT differ from those of a Paramedic? Why?

ah finally! i find people think youre stupid and blonde and dont know what you are doing, or they think you are more trained than you really are. ex: i was dealing with a kid having a seizure in the water and the mother ws yelling at me to give the kid some valium. i called her out on that...

the town i live in used to be all volunteer (this was back when my mom and dad were on it). now, 17 years later, it is a paid volunteer. so i guess you get paid to do inhouse call, regardless if there is a call, and then you get paid if you go out on calls? thats my understanding of how the...

well i forgot to introduce myself. I am from Maine. I volunteer with Kennebunk Fire and Rescue. I am a lifeguard with addendum certifications to make me eligible to be a first responder. I begin my basic class tomorrow. My dad was the first paramedic in the town where we live and the...

and again we really werent able to obtain much of any useful information from her. if we asked her how long she had been on the floor it would vary from 3 days to 6 hours. also, anytime we tried to ask her something all she would say is "im sorry im sorry" her voice was hoarse like she was...

well she claimed to have been on the floor for 3 days at one point. but im not so sure about that for many reasons. first of all she was altered. second if her bloodsugar was low cause she missed meals, why did her glucose drop again below 50 after an amp of D-50? it had to be an insulin overdose.