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So last week, I was covering the "south side" which is code for the projects here in our fair city (with a murder rate per capita higher that DC and NYC combined) and we get dispatched to a GSW. So we go halung full-tilt for freedom and justice down the street and arrive to find a half dozen...

Here in the hood we use the 400mg/500mL concentration...and the way I was taught was to make a Dopamine clock, it makes it really easy for calculating how much to use if you guesstimate the pts weight. You can do it in your head, its quick, easy and wont destroy the pts kidneys...not sure if I...

Well our protocols are very vague here, so we can operate within them. We call medical direction for very little. For example, we only call for MSO4 on the pain protocol, medics here can give it without calling for MIs. BUT, the docs are kicking this idea around and some of the medics are...

Add one more...NC. Has to be a state DNR, fully completed and it has to be the original, NO COPIES! Its yellow and has a big red stop sign on it. Ive had to initiate resuscitation on a pt with the yellow form because the MD forgot to print her name and date the DNR after signing it... :blink:

I'm from the school where CVAs and MIs got high-flow always if it was bad, and here we are still giving high-flow for bad MIs. I had never heard of this for bad CVAs but the general concensus is as long as the pt is protecting thier airway then they get a NC.

thanks CPT, novody ever said I couldnt embrace being a jew and a medic!! :D

With all the research thats going on in Durham at DUKE, a couple of docs have started research on high flow 02 in pts with embolic CVAs. Their argument is, in the time it takes to initiate treatment and transport of the patient, the high-flow oxygen that we are used to providing actually causes...

I am a medic in Durham, not too far from the Franklin county fiasco... Whats going around here is that an off-duty Paramedic arrived on scene and pronounced the pt sans equipment. When other EMTs and the ME arrived on scene, one of the females repeatedly told the ME that the "dead" pt was...