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Take a practice test. Identify your weak spots and from there reread those chapters. Good luck!

When you say, "not consistent" what do you mean by that?

While we are on the topic, here is an article that may be of interest to you. Brain Glucose Transporters: Relationship to Local Energy Demand- http://physiologyonline.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/16/2/71

Haven't finished reading this, but keep in mind that amitriptyline also inhibits noradrenaline reuptake.

Okay fine, take the hard way out, lol. Get a BVM and start bagging with supplemental oxygen. Start an IV, give a fluid bolus. Get a thermometer reading. Pulse ox for the heck of it(flushed skin eh? any CO poisoning?). What's the background and clinical info? There, happy now?

Nice picture though.

For a guy with vital signs like that?! Only one thing for us to do...I'll go get the body bag...jk jk.

We don't use them here.

They are helpful, I'm an EMT-B myself. We have the occasional first responder at my department and they're darn helpful. A lot of firefighters around here are first responders. I would trust a lot of the first responders here before I would a lot of the other Basics.

I have a CD that I keep as a mix so that I have a theme song for our calls...really geeky I know and probably not in the best taste, but hey it keeps me entertained. "I'm On Fire" - Bruce Springsteen- Fire backup and general burns... "Too Much Blood in My Alcohol Level"- David Ball- Assaults...

Don't touch it unless you're being shot/stabbed/etc.

That's really disappointing.....

Great thread and ideas. I'll try to get some of them implemented in our Future Medics Club at my high school. Thanks everyone!

Happy new year everyone!

Just wondering how many/when you wear gloves on your calls.

I agree, latex seem to fit the best out of all the gloves I've ever used. They have a certain feel and dexterity that nitrile just doesn't seem to have. I use the nitrile though just because of the concern for latex allergies. No reason to take a risk.

LLQ? Probably not appendicitis.

MAST trousers?! 1000 mL?! No one does that anymore. If you can feel a radial pulse (or if the systolic BP is 90 and above), no reason to give a bolus. If you can't, give the patient a 250 bolus and continue to do so until a radial pulse or 90 systolic is obtained. Permissive hypotension.

I already got mine just because it seems that we've been getting a lot of calls for people with flu-like symptoms. Not taking any chances. As for the chickenpox...it can cause some pretty nasty things in adults...no reason for an adult not to be vaccinated. It's that kind of attitude that...

That would...watch, he probably won't come back now.