the 100% directionless thread

[usalsfyre]

Definitely a "bug" rather than "windshield" day.

 

[RocketMedic]

Foxfi + galaxy note + Bluetooth keyboard is a win, free internet and college

 

[the_negro_puppy]

So here is my story from yesterday.

fell on her causing her to take a header into the base of an ATM machine. She did end up having a minor lac on her head. She got transported after fire over reacted and c-spined her.

Do you guys use capnography to confirm ETT?

 

[Clare]

Do you guys use capnography to confirm ETT?

Capnography is mandatory in NZ

 

[Handsome Robb]

Me: It really is unfair that guys do not have to suffer anything comparable to menstruation
Guy: Yes we do; its called putting up with girls who have it!

*looks for some sort of sharp object suited to wounding

Um ... wrong answer?

I think it's the best answer I've ever heard.

Definitely a "bug" rather than "windshield" day.

I hear that. We're understaffed and running 10% more calls than this time last year....and we're about to lost like 5 or 6 medics to Fire next week :wacko:

Capnography is mandatory in NZ

Same here.

Had my first heroine OD as a medic today. Only have seen a handful of them as an I and they were all still awake just "on the nod".

GCS of 6 (1/1/4), apneic (I said apneic, partner said "no she's guppy breathing like 4 times a minute") Spo2% of 35, and completely cyanotic from head to toe. 2 mg of IN narcan worked beautifully. Boost her respiratory drive in seconds but she didn't wake up until we got to the ER and even then she was A&Ox2 with a gcs of 13 (3/4/6). Pretty cool call. I've lost a few very close friends to that nasty drug and it felt good to save her and keep her friends and family from going through what I've been through too many times. Actually felt like I made a difference for once.

I love how she continually lied about it even after I pointed out the track marks and the homemade TQ she still had on her arm. The whole time she was denying it, before I found the TQ, Greg House was whispering "everybody lies" in the back of my head.

 

[RocketMedic]

Heart stabbing, periarrest on arrival with one deep stab to left anterior chest,. Decompressed, IO access, King Airway. Coded, ROSC, watched cardiac massage, died in OR about thirty minutes later.
Needle decompression wasn't as dramatic as I thought.

 

[shfd739]

Yall have run better calls in 1 week than I have in a couple months. I cant remember my last serious 911 trauma call..Or overdose. Much less an OD that serious.

 

[Epi-do]

Someone stole my debit card number. Fortunately, it's the account that only has my spending money in it between pay periods. I bet they were really sad when that big purchase at Walmart.com was declined.

 

[shfd739]

Someone stole my debit card number. Fortunately, it's the account that only has my spending money in it between pay periods. I bet they were really sad when that big purchase at Walmart.com was declined.

Dang thiefs.

A few years ago someone tagged mine early in the morning right after payroll hit. Whole check was used from France to get plane tickets.

 

[DeepFreeze]

I had someone try to buy strippers in London with my credit card once...but thankfully my bank declined the purchase, due to them getting my address wrong.

Now I shred my mail religiously.

 

[exodus]

I think I left myself logges into chat. Hmmm..

 

[Hunter]

I think I left myself logges into chat. Hmmm..

that you did, see anything interesting?

 

[NYMedic828]

10 weeks to go.

 

[NomadicMedic]

I had to take a backboard away from somebody who just wouldn't take "no" for an answer.

Let me just say if any BLS person tried to put me on a backboard after I said no... Whew. You wouldn't want to be around for that.

 

[NYMedic828]

I had to take a backboard away from somebody who just wouldn't take "no" for an answer.

Let me just say if any BLS person tried to put me on a backboard after I said no... Whew. You wouldn't want to be around for that.

Protocol said to do it. Therefore, it has to be done.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Yall have run better calls in 1 week than I have in a couple months. I cant remember my last serious 911 trauma call..Or overdose. Much less an OD that serious.

Wanna trade? We've been consistently doing 11-12 transports per 12 hour shift with how understaffed we are lately. That doesn't include AMAs. Gotta love priority 1 calls pending, we had a working arrest pending the other day...fire was not happy with us when we showed up.

Saw something like 23 patients Thursday cause of a couple MVAs that boosted our count pretty fast.

 

[Aprz]

Hm, will your company be hiring after I get my paramedic? Lol.

 

[Jambi]

Do you guys use capnography to confirm ETT?

Yes we do...but this particular person refused to believe the "numbers" because he felt it was good. Needless to say he was overridden, and the issue fixed.

I wanted to pull out my hair.

 

[JPINFV]

Protocol said to do it. Therefore, it has to be done.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkL9SB06Tpc[/YOUTUBE]

 

[EpiEMS]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkL9SB06Tpc[/YOUTUBE]

Reminds me of a bad (if smacking of truth) image demonstrating the Godlike attributes of the medical director.