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1st deg block, LBBB, LVH, ischemia.

Ok I tried looking up the study, but I can't seem to find it! These links got me pretty close: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122296983/issue http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122305342/issue I would be very curious to see how rapid the absorption of aspirin is. The...

Hey Life- that was a good post up there. Thanks

I prefer clean ones, hands down!

Thanks for the links. The article mentions levels of ASA being detectable after 45 minutes. I wonder just how fast it really does begin get into the bloodstream. I will look up the study itself this weekend. I ask because, since it is administered it in the field for an AMI, I assumed that...

Does anybody know how quickly the antithrombotic effects of ASA appear after buccal absorption? The ways my pharmacology texts word it is still unclear to me. Thanks!

Whose?

Just don't tell your patient! EMT: "It's OK- I may have barely graduated my class, but I'm still an EMT!" Pt: "Oh, great... are we at the hospital yet?" EMT: "No, we still have time. Here, I'm going to start an IV and run some fluids into you. It will only hurt for a second." Pt: "Why do...

My 2 cents is never drive faster than your PARTNER is comfortable with, either!

OK, I feel like I'm setting myself up, but I have to ask... What's wrong with the hand drop test? I mean, as long as you use another test for responsiveness as well?

+ another 1 If you see a spurting artery, penetrating chest wound, etc., deal with that IMMEDIATELY upon pt. contact! This can be as fast and simple as just putting a (gloved- it had better be gloved) hand onto the wound to seal it right then and there. It it an autofail if you do not! Then...

Redneck FF How about when you call your fellow responders to tell them that you'll be doing a large illegal burn today and they all respond with, "OK, I didn't hear that. Let me know if you need some help."

Oh, and that the Zombie Virus is real, and to be feared. Superstitious folk down here in the Borderland.

That you're safer not wearing a seatbelt, so that you don't get trapped in a bad TC. People around here still believe that one with some regularity, even as the evening news tells us about another weekly set of vehicle ejection fatalities. Go figure.

Hey, that's great news! I can't wait to tell my wife! :glare:

Hi guys- I have the habit of checking breath sounds quickly in the lower lobes (on the back) when the pt is rolled onto a board. Do any of you have an opinion as the the best place to check breath sounds quickly, i.e is one location more telling than another, on a trauma at a noisy scene? Thanks.

Are you sure you'd want to administer opioids to this pt? Couldn't that result in a decreased respiratory drive and some vasodilation, yielding possible lower o2 sat and bp?

Were they on horseback? Drunk?

Hey ResQ, speaking of snow in the Sierras- My mother-in-law lives SE of Placerville, at about 3500' elevation. The times I've been there, it seems like the locals are either drunk alcoholics or recovering alcoholics (what is it with that elevation?). She said yesterday that they've been snowed...