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Ordered a gooseneck hitch for the beater truck, hopefully have that in this week, then next week got to install the new DVD player and backup camera in the wife's jetta...hopefully I don't have to run new speakers or speaker wires, as I hate pulling wires through door harnesses.
 
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NomadicMedic said:
Just showed a couple of the medics at work the Kiwi Grip. I was almost like, "how do you not know how to do this?" But I forgot that not everybody reads and stays up to date with this stuff.
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Used it two shifts ago on an arrest, makes intubating with compressions easier I think.

I had a bad time with it while interning. Passed the bougie on a horrible view patient no problem but then while exchanging the tube, something went awry and I gutted the tube. Then the succs wore off (what happens when you use a lunch cooler), and we had a rodeo on our hands that fortunately did not result in a bad outcome.

Maybe I was doing it wrong before, but I found if you load the bougie "up" the tube and back out the murphy eye you can manipulate the bougie out of the eye with your right thumb while maintaining your view with your left.
 
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I think this is more an issue related to it being a plastic head, but have y'all ever had much issue with the tube getting caught and not advancing smoothly around the area of the epiglottis? It seemed more like a plastic on plastic problem, but I haven't had the chance to try this method myself in real use....Had enough trouble trying to just use a Miller blade and/or a stylet in the OR, didn't want to push the issue further.
 
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StCEMT said:
I think this is more an issue related to it being a plastic head, but have y'all ever had much issue with the tube getting caught and not advancing smoothly around the area of the epiglottis? It seemed more like a plastic on plastic problem, but I haven't had the chance to try this method myself in real use....Had enough trouble trying to just use a Miller blade and/or a stylet in the OR, didn't want to push the issue further.
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That's a better question for @Remi or @E tank , but I found just rotating a little to the right makes the tube almost corkscrew right in.
 
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StCEMT said:
I think this is more an issue related to it being a plastic head, but have y'all ever had much issue with the tube getting caught and not advancing smoothly around the area of the epiglottis? .
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How that is generally explained is that the bevel of the tube gets hung up on the cuneiform cartilage (the arytenoids are beneath them) and by rotating the tube 90 degrees, you can free it up and advance it. I've always been taught counter clockwise, so that's what I do, but it doesn't really matter which direction you rotate.
 
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And concluded my 5th straight no hitter. Shift ended at 0700. At 0656 a car vs semi with entrapment came in on the highway. Sucks to be the oncoming crew.

I made it home from station in 32 minutes and fire still wasnt on scene

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Ah ok, that makes sense. I'll have to see if I can't get our practice set out just to refresh it then. I don't think I ever practiced rotating it during school, so that probably explains why often got hung up.

On an unrelated note, every day I come to work makes me more and more excited to get the application process started at this new place. 5 more weeks.
 
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Good morning, Loma Linda Medical Center!


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Chris07 said:
Just received the good word yesterday evening...

I got into a DO program!

See ya EMS...I'll be back, but not on the amberlamps :D
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First off, Congratulations!!! Now then, hopefully you'll still be mostly human at the end of it all... You may yet learn the definition of "working tired." Actually, I almost guarantee it.
 
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And I would pick up a shift that starts at 0100 why again?
 
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My Figure1 is blowing up more than my Tinder. Not sure how I should feel about that haha
 
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So a portion of I-85 just caught on fire and fell. Getting into the city on Saturday for work should be fun!!!
 
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Jim37F said:
Your what now?
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Figure1 is a pretty cool app. Once verified as a medical professional, you can view and post cases/images of medical things. Anything from 12 lead strips, to xrays/mris and pictures of unique traumas are posted on there. Then, similar to here in the comments people discuss the diagnosis and workups. I love the app, learned a bunch from it.
 
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