SA_Medic

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Whoever get's to translate this, will, in my eyes, have the top spot for atleast 8 1/2 hours. я на верху!!!! HAHAHAHA

Terri my dear, once I am on TOP and stay there, I will gladly share the TOP spot with you. But right now, I have to go and sleep....... your joy will be shortlived though, When you wake up, I will once again be on TOP, how is that for a forth comming nightmare !! HAHAHAHA

Ok well, I have wiped the drool off my face, and now I am standing happily and triumphant at the TOP once again.

I know you are good sweety, but a little competition never hurt anyone. I B ON TOP

I'm back TOP

Nope, as a member of the continent that is known as the craddle of man kind, I am on top

Hate to burst your bubble ladies, But I am on TOP.

Seems that way, and nope, I'm on top

That is something you tend not to ever think of. Safety on the rigs are very good in the last bunch of years. The last "major" problem was more than 8 years ago. Working on a rig (bear in mind, there are diffirent types) is according me is safer than working on the road. A rig is one thing, a platform is something completely different. Regards S

I do not think that there has ever been a post in the city that has had this many replies since I have been a member. TOP rgds S

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AAhh hell, I'll join in. Slow day here in the Caspian. TOP[/font:9e5a252bc6]

Now that is some scary s*&t, as some said in some movie some years ago. I know I am not allowed to hate, but damn I would love to find that designer of these "characters". I will seriously give a BIG piece of my mind. Regards S

One word ........ there are so many to choose form....... one that includes all.......... [/font:3e03b09f5d] FRIEND

I am with you on this one Terri, I saw it in the life of a friend of mine. His grandparents were married for over 40 or something like that years. The grandfather died of a massive MI, the grand mother, a very healthy person, died six months later. Her health just went down the drain after the funeral. Sad to see, but you have admire it. Loving someone so much that you can not exist without him or her. Regards S

Ok, I wear a medic alert bracelet, does that make me a worse medic? No, does it make my patients feel I am incapable of caring for them? Not that I know of. A medic Alert bracelet or necklace is not just for a "Hey look, I'm a sick person" (no pun intended to anyone). I am wearing mine cause I have allergies. I wish I could give a definite answer, but I will be lying. I am sure that more than half the worlds population has some sort of life threatening allergy, who would make our jobs as medics so much easier if they would just wear the damn bracelet or necklace. How may time have given a patient some drug and wondered "What if the patient is allergic to this?" I have on more than one occasion and hoped that the will be no anaphylactic reaction. Medic Alert or any other means of conveying this message, would really make it easier for all medical staff. As for my reason, being allergies, it is Aspirin, Penicillin (very common allergy) and Codeine. Does that me a lesser medic or make a patient loose faith in me??? [-X [-X I believe not, as a matter of fact I believe in leading by example. If can wear mine proudly and I get asked, I tell the person my reasons. Hopefully it will make him or her think and get themselves one should the have an allergy. BTW, my organ donor and DNR orders are linked to my medic alert. Regards S :violent1: :violent3:

Hey Crow, You might want to get your CV online at one of the following sites: www.rigzone.com or www.oilcareers.com Hope it helps and good luck with hunting down a offshore job. Regards S

We have a local PVT service here, called netCARE, Saw one of their vehicles a while ago, someone placed a sticker over the n, it read petCARE. Regards S

Why on earth would have the regrets of not being here in africa ????? Here, nothing happens every ten mintues and lasts for hours on end !!! We have a degree program here, where you can actually go up to a doctorate. And we practise on our own license. I suppose it is yet another thing we seem to be better off then.... Regards S

What is your name? Steven When is your birthday? 26/07 Eye color? Blue/green Hair color? Black What nationality(s) are you? South African Any piercings? no Any tatoos? yes You have three wishes, what are they? i will only need 1 What sound can you not stand? chalk on a black board Special talents? mmmmmm...... What is the first thing you do when you wake up? pour a cup of coffee What is the last song you sang? My Emortall - Evanesence Do you play any instruments? no Do you know any random facts? lots and lots of useless stuff BE HONEST- Do you listen to show tunes? yes Do you want to go to college? been there Whats the first thing you do when you get home from work? Unpack Is there anyone you are desperate to meet? Yeah, lots of regulars here. Do you dance around your house when nobodys home? yep Favorite quote? sleep when your'e dead Main source of exercise? Gym - 1 hour a day Yay or Nay Diet Pepsi? nay Kids? none Bread? yay Hair cuts? #2 razor Hiking? hell yes Black and white photography? depends on my mood Coffee? yay What C.D.s are in your sterio right now? none, no stereo's on the rig Guilty pleasures? A bowl of ice cream while watching a movie If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? Pasta Speak other languages? French, Zulu and Afrikaans Favorite song (as of right now)? none, I have wide music taste Favorite flower? none Contacts, glasses, or neither? neither Hometown? Cape Town - I still want it to be some small town with lots of trees and mountains. Favorite Drink? Fuit Juice Have you ever been in love? (depending on what your concept of love is) I don't know. Have you ever been skinny dipping? HEHEHEHE, yes Assertive or passive? (no idead) Sing in the shower? no Any regrets? nah, life is for living and learning. no mistakes, no learning. Do you swear? yes, sometime i think too much. Do you have any pet peeves? don't know Favourite Ice cream flavor? Chock chip Member of the red light club? Does the 5th amendment apply to South African as well

Hey Guys, We have been using sprinters for about 5 years now and have recently stated moving over to the VW version of the sprinter. The sprinters never seemed to last long on gravel roads, of which there are quite a lot in SA. THe VW is cheaper to purchase, cheaper on maintenance and lasts longer on the gravel roads. I will check around to see if I can get some photo's fo them, outside as well as inside once I get off the Oil Rig in about three weeks. All in all, compared to the previous vehicles we had (Toyota Hi-Ace) similar to your buddy vans, only with a raised fibre glass roof. It is a pleasure working in the back of these vehicles. Regards

Here is something more on it I copied and pasted from another group. Might be interresting to you. Quote: Patients without chest pain tended to be older women and to have a history of diabetes, heart failure, or hypertension, as opposed to patients with chest pain who were more likely to be smokers with plaque buildup in their coronary arteries. Patients with atypical symptoms were also more likely to have the unfavorable outcomes of heart failure, cardiogenic shock, arrhythmias, and renal failure. I was previously a paramedic liason for a hospital in a large suburban city that specialized in cardiac care. One of the standards of education with the field medics was to get away from the term "chest pain" (which was the title of the treatment protocol), as we found the above to be true about femals and no pain. The point being, you can ask one of the females in the above catagory if she has any chest pain, and they will say no as she decompensates in front of you. The line of questions we zeroed in on was a "new ill feeling" or "new feeling of uneasiness". In our experience with females coming through the door and going to the cath lab, these two questions seemed to catch the females listed above. After presenting this info several times, we saw a significant increase in correctly treating the female portion of the MI group pre-hospital, instead of receiving the "ill female" via ambulance with no real treatment. Thanks Jerry Jerry Miller Medical Base Supervisor Mercy Air Base 8 /Quote Regards S

Found an interesting evidence based medical study, for your perusal. Heart Attacks Without Chest Pain More Often Fatal Atypical Cardiac Patients Not Given Proper Drugs or Hospital Treatments (NORTHBROOK, IL, August 9, 2004) - People who have heart attacks or other heart conditions who do not experience chest pain are commonly overlooked and undertreated at the hospital, often resulting in greater fatality rates in this group of patients. A new study in the August issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, shows that cardiac patients presenting to the hospital without chest pain have triple the death rate of other cardiac patients and are less likely to receive medications to slow the progression of a heart attack. "While the majority of people who have acute coronary syndromes, such as heart attacks and unstable angina, feel chest pain, some do not, but, instead, may experience atypical symptoms of fainting, shortness of breath, excessive sweating, or nausea and vomiting" said the study's lead author, David Brieger, MBBS, PhD, Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia. "Other than excessive weating, each of the dominant symptoms of a heart attack not accompanied by chest pain independently identifies a population that is at increased risk of dying." A group of international researchers analyzed data from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE), a registry of 20,881 patients from 14 countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and France. These patients were hospitalized with a variety of heart conditions from July 1999 to June 2002. Of the 1,763 cardiac patients who did not experience chest pain, 13 percent died in the hospital compared to 4.3 percent of those with chest pain. In addition, 23.8 percent of patients without chest pain were initially misdiagnosed when they arrived at the hospital, compared to only 2.4 percent of heart patients who experienced typical symptoms. Patients without chest pain tended to be older women and to have a history of diabetes, heart failure, or hypertension, as opposed to patients with chest pain who were more likely to be smokers with plaque buildup in their coronary arteries. Patients with atypical symptoms were also more likely to have the unfavorable outcomes of heart failure, cardiogenic shock, arrhythmias, and renal failure. "Often, when a patient arrives at the hospital without chest pain, it is only after blood test results come back or other diagnoses are excluded that the physician reassesses the situation and determines it is an acute cardiac event after all," said Professor Brieger. "We hope that our findings will remind physicians that these events do occur in the absence of chest pain and will prompt them to make the diagnoses and institute the appropriate treatment more rapidly." Researchers also discovered that patients who did not experience chest pain were often not given proper medication or offered appropriate cardiac medical procedures. Drugs such as aspirin and beta-blockers are usually given to patients with heart problems when they arrive at the hospital because they act as blood thinners, lesson the burden on the heart, and decrease the chances of a future coronary event; yet patients who did not have chest pain were significantly less likely to receive these drugs both during their first 24 hours of hospitalization and throughout their hospital stay. These patients were also less likely to undergo procedures such as coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention and were less likely to receive statins at hospital discharge. "The current gap in treatment and hospital outcomes for patients with atypical symptoms is a problem that needs to be rectified," said Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. "More emphasis needs to be given to identifying and properly treating heart attacks in patients who do not exhibit typical symptoms." CHEST is a peer-reviewed journal published by the ACCP. It is available online each month at www.chestjournal.org. Regards S

Ok, I don't seem to follow the whole badge thing. It seems I'm being a slow South African again. At first I thought you were talking about name badges. Then looking at the sites I figured, "Ok, shield type thing". I have one question, WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU WANT A SHIELD FOR? In South Africa we have a law forcing us to wear a name badge, the service you work for provides that, the uniform, shoes, belts etc. Only thing you supply is Undies. That seems to be good enough for me. S