Old Guys and Ladies: "Mother's Milk"?!?!

Activated charcoal. Although the humor factor is a big plus when they spray it everywhere!
 
TheLocalMedic said:
Activated charcoal. Although the humor factor is a big plus when they spray it everywhere!
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I use this still, Poison Control still recommends it. ERs still administer it.......
 
Most oral antidotes to poisons.
Butter on uncooled burns.
Silvadine on large area burns.
Antibiotic eye ointment prehospital.

"Choke-saver" forceps (Finally found a picture!)
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The ole suction cup on the snake bite!
 
Plastic "Bite Stick" "for seizures":

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Get it wet, put it in, squeeze the protruding end, and it could squirt away like a watermelon seed fort depths unknown.
 
mycrofft said:
Plastic "Bite Stick" "for seizures":

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Get it wet, put it in, squeeze the protruding end, and it could squirt away like a watermelon seed fort depths unknown.
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Just saw a nurse this morning wrap a tongue depressor in gauze and shove it in a seizing patients mouth...
 
The preview on TapaTalk just showed "Just saw a nurse this morning wrap a tongue depressor in gauze and shove it in..." which I found intriguing. The last few words were kind of a letdown.

Is a pericardial thump still a thing?
 
Only good reason to put something between teeth is to facilitate suctioning, but these slippery little devils were known to head down the gullet once wet, esp wi saliva, food,,,,
 
Milla3P said:
The preview on TapaTalk just showed "Just saw a nurse this morning wrap a tongue depressor in gauze and shove it in..." which I found intriguing. The last few words were kind of a letdown.

Is a pericardial thump still a thing?
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Precordial thump is actually back in 2010 AHA Guidelines after being removed from 2005. They now recommend it for witnessed, unstable V-Tach if defibrillation is not immediately possible. Pretty dang specific circumstances, but still "a thing" I suppose.
 
Syrup of Ipecac.

It seemed that it always expired without being used.
 
How about Lasix for acute pulmonary edema? We still carry that just to change it out when it expires every few months.
 
chaz90 said:
Precordial thump is actually back in 2010 AHA Guidelines after being removed from 2005. They now recommend it for witnessed, unstable V-Tach if defibrillation is not immediately possible. Pretty dang specific circumstances, but still "a thing" I suppose.
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Some 80 y/o board member insisted on it being in if they wanted to go with hands-only CPR, I bet.

I swear you have to wait for the panel members to turnover through extinction before the paradigm can flip.
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Alternating tourniquets for CHF. A long-timer said he used to do it in the field.

Interestingly, I had a old internal medicine doc talk about how he used to "bloodlet" CHF patients early in his career.
 
medicsb said:
Alternating tourniquets for CHF. A long-timer said he used to do it in the field.

Interestingly, I had a old internal medicine doc talk about how he used to "bloodlet" CHF patients early in his career.
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I've made jokes in the ambulance about doing that with a 14g but I never thought it was actually attempted. :blink:
 
Re-using steel IM needles, after autoclaving them
 
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