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I think that maybe you should take a trip down to your friendly neighborhood EMS/Fire station and ask them. It couldn't hurt.

Interesting. Could you explain please? I wonder how an abdominal aneurysm would be asymptomatic and not require surgury. I would think that the pt would be in quite a bit of pain and most certainly be symptomatic if there was an AAA.

If the allegations are found to be true then I hope that the security guards and the nurses involved not only get fired but face criminal charges.

Which is exactly what happened in my scenario. I passed it, and it was an awesome learning experience for me.

I'm a little confused by your question. How would a pt you have assessed, even if you can't seem to find anything wrong, be turned out by EMS thus having the patient having to demand to be taken? Could you give a scenario so that people could better understand your question?

For a AAA pt with no pulse to the lower extremities? Wouldn't that just compound the aneurysm?

I thought that Trendelenberg is contraindicated for suspected AAA. If I'm wrong about that could you explain why?

Yeah, I know. It was just the look on the examiners face, it kinda threw me off. I was wondering if I had done something wrong or if there was a better position to transport the pt.

That's what I had thought. I had it as a scenario and when I said I was going to place the pt in a semi fowler's, the examiner looked at me like I had two heads. Thank you.

Sorry, should have been more specific. To the ER.

Just for my own reference, but what is the best position to transport a AAA pt?

27. 20 of them came from being new.

Hi there. I wanted to thank you for your response to my thread. Your advice had really helped me. I was wondering if you would be interested in critiquing what I have written so far.

I have to write an essay for enterance into my EMT class and I am experiencing some hard core writers block. It can't be more that 2 pages long and I have to outline Why EMS, Personal and Professional Goals and What I have to offer the program. I think the problem is that I have too much to say...

I would love to give you a stellar answer to this question, but I don't have one, so I am going to ask somebody who does and I will get back to you on that. I think you are right, that is the case here as well.

May I ask why you used dopamine and not epi? I'm asking strictly as a student. What is the desired response from using dopamine vs. epi in this case?

You are correct. Thank you.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend.

In fact, I like it so much that I would like to use it as my signature. If you don't mind that is.

OMG, that was beautiful.