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I've never had to transport a bag of cash with the patient, if that means anything. ;)

Yeah, really. And I don't remember there being any questions that required that knowledge on the NREMT I/85 test, though I could be mistaken. Here's why I didn't bother. Symbolic's link shows the HR for a child 1-8 years old as 80-100 bpm. My textbook says for 1-3 yr, 90-150 bpm; for 4-5...

Thanks for the input everyone! It's possible I could get a copy of the 12-lead I assume the hospital did, but this is a hospital that isn't great about giving us info on our patients, so I'm not holding my breath. All we can do on the ambulance (and this required us to fight the state) is a...

I saw this ECG from a patient the other day who complained of 7/10 chest pain originally, but claimed he was down to 1-1.5/10 by the time we arrived. He only went in the ambulance because his wife insisted. It looks to me like perhaps non-conducting PACs? Perhaps...

I work EMS in an area where there are five casinos in an otherwise small an uninteresting town. I can't say for you if you can take the income hit, but I will say we seem to always get a good variety of calls from the casinos... Lots of ETOH, cardiac, and fights.

I never bothered to learn pediatric vitals...just remembered that HR & RR should be faster than an adult, and BP numbers are usually lower than an adult. I can't remember if they came up on the test, but I did fine without knowing them. I still just look them up if it's a kid.

I don't have an actual reference in front of me, but I recall hearing that even if a shock works, it's common to get several seconds of asystole before the heart starts up again, so even if you do a pulse check, you probably won't detect anything even if the shock "worked". Add that to the...

Thanks for all the replies. I would assume this is some odd quirk of our protocols (to be clear, these are for an industrial EMT unit, so they probably aren't as clear as you'd expect in a more professional unit that goes on more calls), but it seems to be mentioned in that textbook. That...

I had a quick question that I couldn't find the answer to online. I was looking at our protocols today and noticed that the chest pain protocol said nitro was contraindicated with "Epigastric distress or hiccups accompanying symptoms of acute myocardial infarction". My net search found this...