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You know you have a winner of a pt when your partner has to explain to them that a B/P cuff and Pulse Ox will not hurt him, and that the toilette bowl is not a source of fresh water.
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Ah one of my favorite drugs D50. Well I cant say that I was taught to aspirate but I do see the reason for doing it. Although I would much rather check with a NaCl flush, we carry the predosed jets which would make this very difficult.
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Really what you need to ask yourself is how much money you want to make. RN vs Paramedic, the RN takes home the big bucks $$ any day of the week. Also if you are trying to get onto a flight service you can get on a lot quicker as an RN then you can as a Paramedic. In the Northeast they look for 10+ years experience with Medics but only 3+ for RN's. So you have to look at all of your options and choose what is best for you.
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Pulse Ox readings are used as a crutch for providers that cannot properly evaluate a pt. If their lips are blue I am betting that they are going to need oxygen. Pulse Ox is going out the doors in hospitals too. In acute care settings Co2 output is measured and is a better way of assessing how much oxygen the patient really needs.
EMT's Performing Selected ALS?
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So we have EMT-B's to do BLS skills EMT-P's to do ALS skills and, oh ya I remember we have EMT-I's to do some select ALS skills. Imagine that the National Registry already came up with a EMT level that can do a little of both ALS and BLS. Oh and for those Paramedics bitching about their pay, if you could be a little more professional at times the other medical professions would take you a little more seriously. I have seen paramedics spend an entire call trying to start a line, but never stop the bleeding, I have seen them take their shoes off and lay down on the bench while they were transporting a patient, oh and by the way these were full time private services that do a couple thousand calls a year.
Needless to say their are just as many errors made by EMT-B's as EMT-p's. But getting back to my original point no EMT-B's should not be allowed to use LMA's and IO's. That is the why we created a mid level provider called the EMT-I who can do some ALS procedures like these.