sportygirl

Ty will be missed and I send my love to his family. 

I wish you best of luck. And you will be missed!!! you have helped me a lot in the past and i just wish you could still teach me but I am sure you on to bigger and better things!

Cool thanks for the advice and chris i am in NJ for the summer

I dont have money for that and i am not even in a place i can do that thanks chris but i just want to practic working through scenarios in here i am ok with my hands skills but i just want to work on going through some scenarios

ok i fell a littly rusty with my scenarios and wanted to know if someone could give me one? Please and Thanks.

Hi nice to meet you hope you like it here! it is a good place to learn!

Ty are you mixing up the dates too? i know i am i think being in the woods is messing with my head

Ok so i was right as long as the patient is oriented and all requirements are fully understood and know the risks of not going your not liable.

When I was in EMT school I was told that if a patient wants to AMA you have to tell them all the risks ect... and I was also told that if they sign and they do get worse or die you are not liable for that. Today some one else was telling me I was taught wrong and no matter what you are liable for them. Is this right? and why?

wow interesting. so what would replace the c-collar?

Hi Kyle nice too meet you. If you have questions feel free to ask. And good luck in school.

I am not sure about a quizzes but we give the students work sheets I can try to find one if you want?

so if i remember right there different levels of the DNR. Are there? Do they very for each person?

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(Not that people always do what they should do....)

This is true one of my friends has no right carotid and he some times dose not wear his medical alert tags that could be bad

Ok I was not saying that I was making that call I wanted to know what ccmedoc meant

Nope. They usually have them for a reason.

I more often wonder why we are resuscitating them and why they don't have one..

I more often wonder why we are resuscitating them and why they don't have one..

My first full arrest was an older pt with aggressive cancer in the lung,and more apparently.

He didn't have a DNR so is this what your saying? is he should have?

So I was reading up on this and found some good information and I learned allot and I have another question?

A variety of surgical procedures are available to repair pectus excavatum, here is on of three but this one brings me to another question.

The questions iswith the steel bar would that effect the placement of pads/electrodes? And that would make CPR harder right?

The Nuss Procedure: Usually restricted for adolescent patients, Cleveland Clinic thoracic surgeons use a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) technique to correct pectus excavatum. Through two small incisions on either side of the chest, a curved steel bar (known as the Lorenz Pectus Bar) is inserted under the sternum. Individually curved for each patient, the steel bar is used to ‘pop out’ the depression and is then fixed to the ribs on either side. A small steel, grooved plate may be used at the end of the bar to help stabilize and attach the bar to the rib. The bar is not visible from the outside and stays in place for a minimum of two years. When it is time, the bar is removed as an outpatient procedure.

I have a friend and her sister just died her sister had a DNR and it got me to thinking about DNR's and our profession. Has there ever been a time in your EMS career that you have wanted to try and save someone and not honor a DNR?

that is what it looked like but a little more caved in

Thanks.

So you answered some questions but the one i want to know is would it change the hand placement/depth of compressions?

So this condition would change the placement of the pads?

and thanks for the help

So the other day my sister had a friend over and he spilled hot soup on his shirt when he changed shirts I saw something that was odd. He was born with what he said is a sunk in chest I have never seen this before and it got me thinking;

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• How would you do CPR on someone like him?
  
• Would you go as deep with compressions?
  
• would hand placement be the same?
  
• Would every thing be the same?
  
• Has any one ever had this issue or a similar one?
  
  Sorry if these are dumb questions but they don't ever teach about this kind of things in CPR.
  

So for give me but this might be a dumb question. Why dose knowing what they look like on paper help? I though for respirations you want to know the difference in sound and pattern?

cdcmj

All of the "hot-topic" controversial issues in EMS right now come back to one thing, and thats education. Improve education and real CE and most of this stuff will go away. OOH anything can be done if it is approached in a responsible and effective way.

So are you all saying that if as EMT-B's and MEDIC's if we had better schooling and training/practice in more skills that it would make patient care allot better?

For example the nabiorgh girl across the street she knows CPR but has never used it and a bout a month ago she came to me because she almost had to use those skills and she was scared that she didn't have enough practice with it and was scared that she wouldn't know/rember what to do. But if she had more practice she would be able to do it better? That would make scene. And this would apply to many things for both EMT's and MEDIC's.

wish granted but you will never get a promotion

I wish I could find a job as an EMT!