Miss Sasha

Hey you sexy beast <3 I'm glad to see you update, Tyler had to link me here. I've been wondering about you lately. I've missed you. You're in my thoughts, love. You should call me sometime, because I lost your number :-)

When I come on shift, the entire ambulance gets cleaned. Seats, buttons, steering wheel, door handles, all patient care equipment, floors are swept then mopped with a water/bleach/some kind of cleaner mix. Some people at my service don't seem to think that because the patient never really "touched" the stretcher (on bed sheets from the sheet lift, or our blue sheet) or if they are not on isolation percautions or leaking fluids that we don't need to clean everything... however, many of my patients ARE on isolation percautions or immunocompromised and I'd rather not play russian roulette with my patient's (or mine either!) health and wellbeing, so I/my partner wipe down all used patient care equipment (stethescope, BP cuff, change the pillow case, pulse ox, monitor leads, stretcher including the stretcher handles and up and down buttons, etc). We use whatever my company provides us with. Usually sani wipes but lately we've been getting some kind of thick foamy wipes with bleach that I like a lot better than the cancer wipes.

Boycott? But it's just such a REAL depicition of EMS!!! (That was sarcasm, love.) It's so much fun to make fun of it, but I don't think boycotting it will do much, it seems destined to crash and burn on it's own. Hopefully it's DNR is valid and properly filled out. P.S- What video? No link!

Ok. Just to clarify, I meant transmission of ekg via cell phone. Not EKGs themselves.

Caught a blurb about this on the bulletin board at one of our hospitals, couldn't find the exact article but I did find this one, thought I'd share. Does anyone have any experience with this, or is it implemented in their service? How does it work for you? Saving time, saving muscle: The 12-Lead EKG program Full Text: http://www.stjohn.org/innerpage.aspx?PageID=5242

We are like refugees! Displaced by a Tsunami of suckiness.

Weren't you on here before??

I found some interesting stuff while googling asthma, thought I would share. Sorry if this is a repeat, tried to search and got 200+ results. Stress Cardiomyopathy Can Occur with Routine Procedures Full Article: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/AcuteCoronarySyndrome/13429

That is the persona he likes to portray, but he's really a big soft teddybear. But, OP, you gotta roll with it. Don't let other people's adverse criticism of others bother you. The ones who do the criticizing are usually buttheads anyway who feel threatened by someone more intelligent or better spoken than they are or don't take criticism well. Not worth your anger. Glad you are still around to tell that story ak. Must have been pretty scary.

I think I would avoid a brick highway with a patient at all costs. I already hate taking them over short bursts of brick road because they may cry out in pain. sure brick raises property value and they say they slow down cars (although I'm not sure I buy that.) but not only do they kill an already shoddy ambulance suspension but can have a fx patient in tears. I hate them by hospitals. Hate hate hate them. Would rip them out myself if I could.

So? Safety outweighs aesthetic appeal. I wish they would address brick roads, too.

I'm conflicted on this issue, truly. I usually advocate illegal immigrants, but that is a LONG time for a patient to be in the hospital. If alternatives were offered to the family and they kept rejecting them, what other choice did they have? They can't go along providing free treatment while the patient's family refuses to accept any alternative placement. However if there was no attempt to find alternative placement then they are truly in the wrong. At any rate, I hope that they lose the lawsuit because I don't think the patient or his caretaker will see a penny of that money either way.

But perfuses it with what? Koolaid?

i think it's really amazing. A celebrity dies, and the world mourns. A regular person dies, they might get an "Oh, well that's too bad..." and not a second thought.

It sounds like your significant other has trust issues. But before I go running off into an eye rolling, scoffing rant against your spouse I have to wonder. Do you do anything to make her worried about the possiblity of you wandering? Do you stare at other girls, make comments, make her feel like you're interested in someone else? If not, she needs to get over it. She's not your mommy and she doesn't get to decide who you do and do not work with. In tough economic times she should be grateful you have a job. To decline that assignment based on your partner may at the very least make you look difficult in the eyes of your employer, and at the very most, could get you fired. I never understood women who didn't feel their partners were capable of a platonic relationship with a member of the opposite sex. I'd find that mentality insulting if I were a male. Just as a side note, as a female, I always took care not to do anytihng that could be taken as flirting with my male partners. Work is work, not somewhere to pick up a chick or a dude.

Granted. But, dun dun dun, it's a McDonalds toy that breaks in three minutes, but that's okay, it sucked anway. I wish it would hurry up and be April 1st already!

Granted. You have eternal youth, but you're eternally poor and homeless as well and live in a cardboard box and smell like cheese. I wish I could find my pants!

Granted. You have a brain. Your brain. Floating in formaldehyde in a jar. I wish I had a nickel.

Supplied it. You can't apply a fart.

It wasn't as if he had an abnormal amount of gas, he was farting to make people laugh and be obnoxious. I don't see a problem in the suspension. It falls under "disruptive behavior"

Are you not the one who just said a few posts back that this is a black and white issue and there is no middle ground? So there IS a middle ground only when it fits into your arguement? A woman and a man both have the right to choose what happens to their own body. How many of you have sex here just to procreate? Sex is a part of any normal and healthy relationship, but being in a relationship does not mean you and your partner are ready for the responsibility and raising a child. Does that mean you should deny your very human, and very real urges? We all know birth control and condoms are not 100% perfect and both have a failure rate. Very slim, but a failure rate indeed. What happens to these unwanted babies after they're born? Another baby for the adoption limbo? Or another mouth to feed when the mother is having trouble just feeding herself and ends up as another welfare baby? Doesn't matter, right? People just care about forcing the mother to carry the kid. I'm pro-choice. I would never have an abortion, but I'm not going to deny people who don't want a baby the right to abort that baby in the early stages of gestation. I do agree that this girl is ridiculous. She was going to abort the baby, and now she's cry ing that it was emotional trauma? Notice how it's "Her daughter" and not "The baby she was aborting"? She has no right to money.

What constitues fat? BMI? If an "obese" person can perform their job requirements as good or better than their skinnier counterparts, then they should be hired. If they can't, they shouldn't. This isn't a hard concept. "Weak" "Lazy" "Incompetent" and "Unable" are not synonymous with "Obese".

That's different, there is logic behind that weight restriction, but generally ambulances are not as concerned with balancing weight as helicopters are. The logic behind weight restriction in ground EMS is "They wont be able to do their job!" which is BS. I've seen skinny as a rail people who are unable to perform the essential functions of their job, i.e carrying a patient downstairs or across rough terrain. And I've also seen some "Big boys" and "big girls" who were more able to lift and carry and get on the ground and intubate than their skinnier counterparts. Instead of enacting a weight limit on ground EMS, a comprehensive and universal skills test would be better