the 100% directionless thread

[bigbaldguy]

Well this day just keeps getting better! My flight is delayed 2hrs and 15mins!!! Hope everyone else is having a better day.

AIRLINES SUCK! Seriously. Tell em you know a boy stewardess maybe they'll give you a drink. Don't use the term boy stewardess if it's a straight male flight attendant though cuz I'm pretty much the only one that thinks that's funny.

 

[TransportJockey]

Well this day just keeps getting better! My flight is delayed 2hrs and 15mins!!! Hope everyone else is having a better day.

I can sympathize. I got stuck at DFW airport overnight cause they canceled my flight this past Saturday

 

[Rhonda]

LAS was all screwed up because the Vice President flew in.

 

[socalmedic]

Personally I have been scouting out the OT/PT students. I have had enough drama with dating fellow nursing students lately.


They love cheesy pick up lines. Try something about gag reflexes and intubating. Gets them 89% of the time, every time. Guaranteed

I will have to give that a whirl. radiology chicks are fun too... the point to remember about the students is that they will be gone in 2 months so if you piss them off you aren't black-balled from that ER. new grads are too scared to talk :censored::censored::censored::censored:...

 

[Aprz]

Took the advice of some people on my resume and updated it. I resubmitted it to the local 911 company and e-mailed their HR saying that I am still interested in "serving my county". After talking with somebody in private chat, reading about Hall Ambulance here, I decided I'd apply online and upload my resume to their website. If I got hired at Hall, I would have to move.

 

[Achilles]

Goin SCUBA diving today

 

[Anjel]

OPA and NPA practical tomorrow for class. I keep forgetting to check for gag reflex. For the first time in my life I wish someone, namely the dummy, would throw up on me that way I would def not forget to check the next time.

Just keep thinking of what happens when things get shoved in your mouth/throat.

Like a toothbrush....

If you have that feeling in your mind, you won't forget to check.

 

[exodus]

Took the advice of some people on my resume and updated it. I resubmitted it to the local 911 company and e-mailed their HR saying that I am still interested in "serving my county". After talking with somebody in private chat, reading about Hall Ambulance here, I decided I'd apply online and upload my resume to their website. If I got hired at Hall, I would have to move.

Hall is up in kern right?

 

[exodus]

Just keep thinking of what happens when things get shoved in your mouth/throat.

Like a toothbrush....

If you have that feeling in your mind, you won't forget to check.

How do you check for a gag reflex? We were told to drop and then just pull and suction if they do gag?

 

[DesertMedic66]

How do you check for a gag reflex? We were told to drop and then just pull and suction if they do gag?

The way I have learned and have to teach is to touch their eyelashes. If their eyelids/eyes move then they have a gag reflex. However I have used this and it doesn't seem to work very well.

 

[CMHills]

How do you check for a gag reflex? We were told to drop and then just pull and suction if they do gag?

I was taught the eyelash thing too, but I've never used it. One of my instructors told me that it's possible (though unlikely) for a pt to have a gag reflex and no twitch reflex in their eyelids. Whatever the specifics are, I just tend to go for the gold with an OPA. It's quicker, and if I were down and in need of an airway, I'd rather the EMT chance it than waste time giving me butterfly kisses.

 

[STXmedic]

I'll use the eyelash method, but like firefite said, it's not very accurate. I've seen many with no flutter and still have a gag (not as common the other way around). Typically you just drop it in or test it with a tongue depressor. When they start to gag, pull it out. Would love to find out there's a better way, though

 

[CMHills]

In my Basic class, I think my instructor's exact words in response to this question were "To test the gag reflex? Oh you just stick an OPA down there. The pt will let you know if they have a gag reflex."

He then proceeded to test the dummy's gag reflex with his middle finger.

 

[Pavehawk]

Corneal reflex is not the same as the blink reflex.... to test the corneal reflex you need to touch the cornea itself, not the eye lid.

 

[Aprz]

Doesn't the Trigeminal (V) cranial nerve affect the sensory of the eyelid, and the Glossopharyngeal (IX) and Vagus (X) cranial nerve affect the gag reflex?

Yeh, Hall Ambulance is in Kern county. I'd probably have to move if I got hired there. It's about 5 hours South of me, lol.

 

[DesertMedic66]

The girlfriend of an EMT co-worker of mine decided to post a "sexy" picture of herself on Facebook and tagged my co-worker in it.

This co-worker is friends on facebook with pretty much all the employees at our company. She now has a whole lot of likes on that photo from people she doesn't know. He is going to be in for it when he comes to work tonight :rofl:

 

[STXmedic]

Proof or it didn't happen.

 

[Aprz]

This conversation is useless without pictures.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Proof or it didn't happen.

This conversation is useless without pictures.

I agree with both of you. But this is a "family friendly site"..... And I'm not gonna pass around a pic of his girlfriend

 

[STXmedic]

:glare: