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I just recently got a promotion on the beach that charges me with the certification and recertification of our lifeguards, as well as assisting in the annual trainings we do before the season opens, however, I need American Red Cross Lifeguarding Instructor to accept the position. I need help...

Looking for a program (preferably online, preferably free) where i can generate rhythm strips for training, scenarios, etc. Thanks!

A van full of Zombies crashes on the freeway. You find three walking around and two unresponsive. What color triage tag would you put on them? Happy Halloween!

So in Anatomy and Physiology today, we were talking about Troponin/Tropomycin and Calcium, and how Troponin C binds to Calcium ions. So when muscle death occurs there is a release of Troponin (correct?). So if you have a patient that is having an MI, will you see elevated Calcium with your...

Here is a post about it The bottom line of his post: "Bottom line: The simplified motor score is a simple system that has now been shown to be as accurate as GCS in predicting severity and outcome from head injury. To be clear, though, neither is a perfect system. They must still be combined...

so at school there is a student and on their medical card it says at the bottom do not take me to [hospital name] (it is the local clinic) unless I risk loss of life or limb. it then has their signature and the date on it. do I have to follow that order legally? I know morally I should but im...

Looks like I am going to be the Training Officer for the Beach I work at. I will be in charge of doing the Lifeguard/First Aid/CPR recertifications. I will also be helping with the teaching of our 2 weeks of inservice before the season starts. My question to you guys, is what do you think is...

I had my first pediatric death today, and I'm still in that phase of shock where I really am not quite sure what just happened. He did not die in my care, however he did die while getting a brain CT. I can't help but wonder if there was anything different that could have been done that would...

As I pursue my career in Critical Care Nursing and Paramedicine, I can’t help but wonder something. I am having the hardest time understanding cellular function. Thanks to EMT school and EMT CMEs I fully understand the different parts of the cell and how they function. I understand what carrier...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KOiKeE0lUs What are your thoughts on a layperson having the ability to have this device and use it without the proper training? Would this void good Samaritan? How about an off duty emt/paramedic doing this outside their duty to act area?

anyone know where i can get this mounted into the back of my car? It would be good so that i can transport without an ambulance. Its ok though cause Im an EMT and its only for personal use.

What exactly is a community paramedic? I've heard that what they do is that like if you are dehydrated they will come to your house, pop a line, give you fluids, and once the fluids are done, they leave. Does anyone have a program like this where they are?

ARTICLE A new drug called tranexamic acid (TXA) is out for use in Ohio. The drug supposedly extends the body's initial fibrin response in severe external and internal bleeding until the patient can get into the operating room. Thoughts?

This is a scenario we ran at my most recent dept training. Dispatched via 911 to the local high school for a 19 year old male subject "not acting right." You arrive on scene to find a male sitting in the Nurses office on her bed. He is in no apparent distress. Patient has intact ABCs. When...

73 yo F unresponsive with BGL of 10. Hx of diabetes. You are running at the AEMT level no medic responded to your request. Can't get a line on the pt. vitals pulse 220 BP 90/60. I was told in this situation that you would not give them D50, but instead a bolus of D5W or glucagon IM. What is...

Dispatched via 911 to a local clinic for a male in his 30s having seizures. Arrives on scene to find a male in his 30s laying on his side in one of the rooms. Nurse states (and wife confirms) tht for the past year the pt has about 8 or 9 tonc clinic seizures per day. He does not have an...

would you say monitoring map is a bls skill or an als skill? justify yourself either way. after we get some discussion going ill let you know what i think.

If you have a patient that has a pneumothorax due to external trauma, after you put on an occlusive dressing and create a flutter valve (by taping down only 3 sides of the dressing), could you use positive pressure ventilations via a BVM to try and reinflate the lung and push the air back out...

My dad was a former medic one town over. He got dispatched one day in the middle of winter for a 48 yo female possible anaphylactic reaction. He got on scene and the house REAKED of booze. There was a woman laying on the floor with her husband standing over her. As my dad's partner was hooking...

I was digging around for the pathophysiology in Munchausen Syndrome, and although there is nothing concrete, one source ( cant find the link unfortunately ) stated that SPECT analysis of the brain showed hyperperfusion to the right hemithalamus of the brain. When looking up the right...