Trauma_Junkie

OK mine was found in an airport getting mad at security because they were stopping him from going to washington DC ... to cure Bill Clinton of his sexual addiction.

Do you have any better?

Im being interviewed for medic school ... they said that they will take me through an oral senario. I desperately need some oral senario memory aids ... any songs, any ackronyms. Please help.

Some of you asked some follow up questions about my liposuction pt. I think we were guilty of doing some swaying the RMA. We, I mean, my partner explained to her that if we took her to the hospital that she would sit and wait a few hours for some blood samples to come back from the lab and they would give her more and/or different meds to make her feel better and treat the S+S that she had now. The patient also volenteered information about having an appointment with her doctor in 36 hours for a post op eval.

We still offered to transport and we did downplay her symptoms ... if we didn't down play her symptoms she probably would not have RMA'd.

I was working with an EMT that's been on the job for 16 years, we had a call last night on a lady that had a liposuction proceedure 2 days ago and was c/o waekness and nausea x 3 hours. My partner asked questions about the new pain meds she was taking and follow up questions about her current complaints ... to make a long story short ... we ended up signing an RMA and recommending that she see her doctor on monday for a post op evaluation. She was stable with good vitals, no dizziness, some vomiting.

I didn't feel inorrect about not taking her to the hospital but she clearly was not emergent at that moment ... but it got me thinking ... and made me question as to how others judge what conditions require a trip to the ER and what is better off staying at home.

Please give some examples.

I got it once for the first time 2 years ago and I got flu like symptoms mildly for a longer than normal period. Previously I would get it and run it out of my system within 3 days. But I would never get the flu shot again, just keep up on vitamin c and echinetia.

Respond at 4 in the morning for female with abdominal pain - half asleep was I and didn't occur to me that the two girls that walked into the ambulance even though they were kissing each other and calling each other pet names, I still had enough nerve to ask "Is there any possibility that your pregnant" they both looked at each other than looked at me and laughed.

Somethings shoulf just be left to the hospital to ask.

scared the crap out of me !!!!!

Hillarius

How did you know? I thought that was between me and the drivers seat. (i guess it was literally).

The person below me is horney right now

The reality of it is ... that the public sees it as education... if you do it on tv people/ lay persons will start doing it in real life.

If the potential for people to do it in real life is there ... then it should be done right on TV ... and not in sections where they switch frames and the public misses them checking for a pulse for 10 sec ...

"Ambulance girl"(Lifetime movie) was pretty good.

Yes I agree w/ IrEMT and KSemt122.

Here's my .02 ... AHA is for the united states and CHA is for Canada. Every country has their own Heart Association and they all compare with each other. In other countries they have non-ventilatatory CPR as the standard w/ ALMOST IDENTICAL SURVIVAL RATES as US.

The way I see it there is only 2 advantages to doing non-ventilatory CPR ... easier to remember for lay person ... safer for rescuer, not requiring mouth to mouth.

Remember the chain of survival ... unless it's a pediatric ... a cardiac arrest really requires early defibrialtion ... a pt in v-fib or pulseless v-tac would have a better chance of survival with defibrilation in 2 min than a pt that recieves CPR immediately and defibrilation 5 min later.

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There's a going joke in my department that if it's 800 pm on friday night your better off driving into the next town.

I actually called viewer relations dept at the discovery channel after weeks of them not answering e-mails. I'm seriously thinking of buying distribution rights and put all 3 seasons of "paramedics" on a DVD set.

Any takers?

I'm a medic student just 6 months to go.