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    anyone familiar with the MRL monitor?

    i just started at a busy inner city agency that uses the MRL (pic 40 i believe). it's biphasic, but i've been told conflicting info about energy settings. i was told once that you use the monophasic setting and the machine converts it to the proper energy, but i've also been told to use the...
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    fluids

    Looks like we're in the great NS shortage of winter 07/08. over the last few weeks our saline supply has dwindled down to nothing. all we have now is 1000cc bags of LR and what NS we have in trauma and ped bags. I recall in medic class we talked about situations when you might want to use LR...
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    new company

    anyone know anything about louisville transport co / yellow ambulance? they just bought the private i work for and i'm unsure about them. first day of ownership they worked us like dogs. good for job security but bad for sanity. word has it that they want to triple our work load and put more...
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    drug seekers

    At the primary response district I work at we have our share of drug seekers (of course who doesn't). Here it seems they all got together and agreed that valium would be their drug of choice and of faking a seizure would be the perfect ploy. Some of them are good at it and you can't obviously...
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    12-leads

    Hello all, i'm a new medic and work full time for a private and part time for a primary response district with 10-15 minute transport times to the closest facility. Many of the veteran medics at the primary response district seem to be overly eager to do 12-lead ekg's on patients. We don't carry...
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    EKG strips

    I'm a 2nd tier medic student and right now we're working on cardiology. I would like to find additional resources for learning or practicing interpreting strips. Does anyone know of maybe any websites that might have practice strips and answers or any books that would help me?
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    unequal bp's

    Hey all, new to the forums so i thought i'd start with a question from a recent call. I'm an emt-b and work for a private so really all calls are routine transfers (also a 2nd tier medic student so i always do a full exam if for no other reason to stay in practice). We were called to a...
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