Hi everyone, I am currently a emt student in Texas, and need your guys opinion as to something that happened to a friend of mine. She was recently diagnosed with epilepsy, just started having a seizure towards the end of may for the first time. She has since been diagnosed with Complex partial seizures. Paramedics had been called out approximately 2 times before this incident that happened in june. local 911 was called out on a 32 year old female seizing on june 10, when paramedics arrived pt was actively seizing, family told medics that she had been down approximately 10 minutes before calling 911, paramedics pushed 10 versed im, no response, pt. still actively seizing, an additional 20 of versed was pushed im, attempts were made for iv access, however, unsucessful, pt was transported to local hospital. er physician informed family that she was being admitted to icu because she had been actively seizing for over an hr and had went into v-tach during seizure at hospital. after speaking with several friends in the medical field, who are paramedics and emts they advised me that they can only push a max of 15 mg in the field and that only a er doc can push a max of 25 mg versed. I was just curious as to your guys protocol. Thank you.
