Recent content by TimBootz

I have found the anwser I was looking for by going throught the CBT moduals. I have not yet taken the death and dying CBT but here is quote from it.. "The Dying Patient On rare occasions, a patient with a terminal illness clearly may be dying on your arrival, but not yet in cardiac arrest...

Interesting. Here in my county we are not allowed NPAs and OPAs are also not considered advanced airways like King, Combitubes or ETT.

Thank you that clears things up. I had not thought of it in the sense of CPAP and BiPAP, being they are machines as opposd to a BVM which is manual. What I was thinking with my pt was he was still A+O spaeking in 2 word sentences (so havig a conversation with him was not really an option just...

Forgive my "ignorance" of the issue, which is why I am posting this here, in an effort to gain a better understanding of the issue, and what other BLS provider would consider prudent. The medics relased the pt to bls txpt because they said they would be unable to intubate the pt. The...

Mr Brown can you clarify. Are you saying that in your frame work assisting ventilations (and by extension OPAs) is not ok when a pt is comfort measures only?

A question: I had a pt who was DNR and comfort measures only. The pt was a 77 y/o male w/ SOB 2^ to end stage COPD. This pt actually had a POLST with instructions pretaining to no intubation and was due to enter hospice care in 1 weeks time. I know that with comfort measures you can still admin...

I have been looking into NREMT recerification. I live in WA and we still have state certification. The question that I can't get a straight anwser about is if my 30 hours of CBT (compentency based training) is apllicable toward the 24 hours of basic CEU for the NREMT recertification. Tried...