Recent content by Undaedalus

Are you sure it isn't the Silent Hero?

Dypsnea secondary to pulmonary edema may resolve after administration of NTG. If the dyspnea was related to LHF caused by the STEMI, then I would suspect the patient may respond as you describe.

12Lead presents with classic S1Q3T3 pattern, and Hx includes nocturnal dyspnea, dyspnea on exertion, plus a recent flight. Even without reading the comments this guy is a pretty textbook PE.

Then I guess you don't really want to be a doctor. To me, this attitude is the crux of the whole issue we're discussing here.. "I want to work in a field at a high level, and be reimbursed accordingly, but I'm not really interested in doing what's necessary to make that happen." If you want...

Just a few things to say here before this thread drains away. To the 22 year-old who wishes he could do it over again: you are still young, and from a more weathered perspective I will tell you, follow your ambitions now before you're ten years down the road, still wishing the same things, but...

I'm just dropping through to post an observation, relevant or otherwise, that I have made in regards to one Mr. leoemt and his arguments concerning EMT field diagnosis and O2 administration. The tired rubric that EMTs do not diagnose in the field is as worn as the concept of universal O2...

This is not a program that one pays to enter. If you want to get your medic with UW @ Harborview, you need to be hired by one of the MedicOne services operating out of King County first. FYI. Secondly, and somewhat related to my previous statement, there is something to be said for getting...

Stop making sense, it hurts my brain. Argue about LSBs; that I understand.

Never had a PT saved when CPR was involved at any point, and I've been going at it for at least a little while now... Although, I have been involved in plenty o' rapid transports to cath, respiratory palliation/alleviation, or cardioversion that arguably resulted in a save. First code was a 27...

Depends entirely on the system. I can tell you one thing for sure, if you don't retest, you won't be hired.

If the topic is whether the buck EMTB as it exists today is still a relevant provider, my response would have to be in the negative. There is just not enough of a rigorous didactic component to Basic education to allow much clinical evaluation beyond: not breathing equals bad. This issue, in...

Gauze Coban Tape CPR mask Gloves PCR's? Really?

As near as I can tell, the only one experiencing any moral discomfort is you. This is crazy. If you have ever driven your ambulance/engine to the grocery store (or, ridden along while your partner/s did so, for that matter), then you are every bit as culpable as those you indict here. Get over...

For the record, In 1995, a man in Wrocław, Poland, had a car accident. At the hospital, his BAC was determined to be 1,48%. Concerned that their equipment was malfunctioning, doctors also performed five separate lab tests, all of which confirmed the man's blood alcohol content. He died a few...

Sorry man, but there's no way. If this guy was a DKA PT, then he should have an acidic pH, whereas what you're describing would be blood somewhere on the order of 4x as alkaline as NaOH, read simply, wildly incompatable with life.