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  1. Every disease can show up without certain symptoms. Toxic shock syndrome stems from staph aureous or streptococcus group A bacteria that enters the blood stream which will cause widespread, rapid, and rampid sepsis. The two bacteria I mention is usually found on the skin all the time. Both of these bacteria can also cause necrotizing facitus. Both of which made very interesting research papers. And thanks for the feedback I'm glad you enjoyed and learned alot from the scenario. To get a better view of the "rash" that I mentioned earlier go to google images and search disseminated intravascular coagulation and it will show you the pictures of the "rash". And since I'm still considered a BLS provider until I test for my medic I love to get both BLS and ALS providers treatment plans because everyone thinks differently and will pick up stuff that others missed.
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  2. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. It is where something traumatic or other reasons that causes the blood to start clotting throughout the body in the capillaries. It can cause DVT, heart attacks, strokes, etc. Your body will continue to clot until your body runs out of the clotting factors in its blood and once that happens your blood will no longer clot and any cut will not stop bleeding because of the lack of clotting factors. It is like hemophillia but is caused secondary to something else. This scenario actually is DIC, I wrote a 18 page research paper on it and had to present a scenario on it to my paramedic class to see how they would treat it. The scenario ya'll have been running through is the exact same scenario I wrote and presented. Up to 60% of all OB/GYN emergencies such as, abrutpo placentae, fetal demise with prolonged carrying of the deceased fetus; also trauma or sepsis can cause it. When you mentioned toxic shock syndrome earlier it made me laugh because I wrote another research paper on it a couple of semesters ago. Our papers required us to research the patho, etiology, epidemology, and prehospital treatment for it.
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  3. I would say nobody has the right to make you file charges if you don't wish to. It's a legal matter and not just as simple as filing a report. If the Doctors truly believe that he is a threat to himself they can hold him without the police having to file harassment charges against him. They would put him on a psych hold. Don't be emotionally manipulated into doing something you don't wish to do, especially when there can be significant ramifications from those actions. The Deputy may think they are acting in the patient's best interests but this is not the appropriate way to go about it and she had no right to ask such a thing of you. Just my 2c worth!
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