njmedic1485

Take it, today's my 44th birthday and I'm hammered, gonna need some in the morning Leave a piece of birthday cake Italian rum cake

I hear ya Fire Doc, 17 October will make 27 years for me. It's weird, with all teh advancements in patient care, I still find my self falling back on the things I learned in Boy Scout First Aid.

You can sleep the night before a fishing trip? I usually get a solid 10 minutes the night before a trip

"Stuck in the middle with you" b/c tonite it's clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right.

1- Never take your gear out of the ambulance before relief has arrived 2- Never laugh when you hear another crew getting slammed, this will anger the EMS gods and they will be swift and terrible with their retribution 3- Never, Ever, Ever make solid plans for after work, it's a surefire ticket to the 10 minutes to go home, relief is nowhere to be seen job at the other end of your coverage area.

The only spoken word in the movie "No" by Marcel Marceau

Deadliest Catch is first on my DVR priority list, NCIS is another one (thanks Scratrat). My "guilty pleasure" shows are Gray's Anatomy and Gene Simmons Family Jewels and yes I am ashamed.

Ride Like the Wind- Christopher Cross (I'm feeling the 70's AM radio vibe)

"Candle for the Dark" - Chicago

Leave a Tender Moment Alone- Billy Joel

New World Man- Rush

Honkey Tonk Woman- The Rolling Stones

Wow, that's an extraordinarily ugly looking 12 lead, I'm thinking hyperkalemia. How has her urine out put been? any extra sources of potassium (dietary, supplements)? ALong with the comfort O's I'd like to put in an IV line and run in 200 cc's of normal saline,keeping an ear on lung sounds of course and go to the hospital.

Your Name: Bob 1- Famous singer/ band: Boston 2- 4 letter word: Blow 3- Street Name: Boardwalk (Yeah, I'm from Atlantic City) 4- Color: Blue 5- Gift/ present: Bird house 6- Vehicle: BMW 7- Item on a menu: Beef Wellington 8- Girls name: Barbara 9- Boys name: Billy 10- Movie title: Boys on the Side 11- Drink: Beer 12- Occupation: Biologist 13- Flower: Begonia 14- Famous Person: Bruce Springsteen 15- Magazine: Boys Life 16- U.S City: Baltimore, Md. 17- Famous sports team: Boston Bruins 18- Reason for being late to work: Being in a car accident 19- Something U throw away: beer cans (empty of course) 20- Things you shout: Balls!! 21- Cartoon Character: Bugs Bunny

We used Hospice assistance with both my mother and father in laws, they were the same way, real free with the narcs, but didn't want them back Morphine and Ativan elixirs as well as ativan suppositories all were flushed be me with my wife verifying the waste.

We carry three on each truck in external carriers, staff wear them as they feel the need. I just used to put one on scratrat and use him as a shield

We have two PC's at each single truck station and three at the multiple truck stations. We use emscharts for e-pcr so we need web access, we are also able to surf the web between calls, we have a very large list of forbidden sites that the blocker picks up.

I should read more carefully before posting, BG is 82/o much for the easy answer :oops:

I may have missed it, but what is the lads blood sugar. Is this a new onset diabetic perhaps?

Was the answer "To fit the manhole" ?

I would like to add the following helpful hints to the list ; 8 ) The "M" in BVM stands for Mask, and it is an integral part of the device. It does no good to stick the 15 mm port in the dead guys mouth and squeeze the bag, even with the nasal cannula set to three liters per minute. 9) Don't get your panties in a wad when you present me with a DNR order 10 minutes after I asked for the residents chart and I stop the resuscitation in the middle of the hallway (we did put him back in his bed). 10) I fully appriceate the importance of skin care in the bed bound patient, but the time to slather on the skin cream is not when I'm trying to apply defibrillation pads .

Robbery

You've obviously never worked in a casino. I got a graduate level course in backstabbing and "doing unto others" from some masters of the art. Everything else has been strictly amateur hour :cya:

we do 12 hour shifts with a mandatory minimum of 6 hrs off between shifts.

Strangely enough I just read an article in the local fish wrap about a Trauma Surgeon in Latvia who was just elected President of that nation. No political experience and some tax problems he was apparently a compromise candidate who is best known for treating casulties after the Chernobyl melt down. You may now return to your bashing.