Jump to content

cldutcher

Members
  • Posts

    6
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About cldutcher

  • Birthday 12/19/1984

Previous Fields

  • Occupation
    NREMT-P

Contact Methods

  • Website URL
    http://
  • ICQ
    0

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male

cldutcher's Achievements

Newbie

Newbie (1/14)

0

Reputation

  1. whats up any thin new in year aea?

  2. Thank you both very much for your input. It sounds like ill have to do a lot more research. I figured this would be a good place to start. Thanks again!
  3. If you are interested in obtaining tactical combat casualty care training, please feel free to reach out to me. I am more than willing to get your pointed in the right direction.

  4. Hi everyone i was just wondering if anyone had or knew anyone with any experience with the company Triple Canopy? From what i can tell it looks like they took over the contracts that Black Water once held with the U.S. government. They currently are taking applications for some overseas military bases. I hear the pay is great (and tax free!) but i was wondering if anyone had some insite on what kind of experiences to expect or exactly how much they do pay. The website is Triple Canopy . I am a new medic in California so the job market for a paramedics is pretty dismal. I do however have over four years experience working in a level 2 trauma center so i do feel my experience is above average as far as new medics go. Just trying to get a feel if something like this is right for me.
  5. Yellow mustard covering a burn from a coffee pot explosion. The ER Docs had a laugh but when i googled it, it seamed to be a fairly common practice.
  6. Here is the link http://www.strokecenter.org/trials/TrialDetail.aspx?tid=396
  7. I didn't notice if this was mentioned yet but some research shows that giving oxygen to acute stroke pt's may do more harm then good. The idea behind it is that with the added oxygen the brain basically thinks everything is okay and can even cause vasoconstriction which in turn can worsen the stroke. So by not giving oxygen and allowing the brain to compensate there was a dramatic increase in pt outcomes. Obviously if the pt is hypoxic then they need oxygen but it shouldn't be used in every case. I searched for the article but was unable to find it. It was a study done in sweden and was accepted by the american heart association if i remember correctly. Maybe someone else would have better luck finding it. :dontknow:
  8. I am currently working in a busy lvl 2 trauma center in so cal as an ER Tech. One of the requirements of my job was to get a national phlebotomy licence. The proper order of draw starts out with red. Red contains no additives. so to prevent contamination it goes first. Next is blue. The blue tube is for coagulation tests. A lot of people like to draw this one first because it is the only tube that requires a strict 9 to 1 ratio. Technically it should not be drawn first because with the initial needle stick there can be tissue thromboplastin contamination. Verly unlikely unless it is a very traumatic stick. 3rd is the Green tube. It contains heparin which could mess up the blue tube. Then lavender. this is the tube used for CBC's. It contains EDTA which is really bad for all the other tubes. It messes up chemistry tests, pt, ptt, and so on. so Red, Blue, Green, Lavender. On a side note just so you all know the blue tube is the only one that has to be full. The more the better of course but even if the other tubes are only 1/4 full the lab can still run all the standard initial tests.
×
×
  • Create New...