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When I was in Australia, the toilets went both ways. The water would flow from the back along both sides of the bowl, cancel out at the front, and there would be too much resulting turmoil to create a spin before the bowl was drained. These "dual flush" toilets imo are the best toilet design. Perhaps our australian friends can give a more accurate account of this. But anyways, if you think about it intuitively, the Coriolis force affecting toilet flow wouldn't make sense, because the difference between the distance to the equator of one side of the bowl and another is insignificant. http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp (Also check out the "Bad Coriolis" link at the bottom of the snopes page that outlines a very clever hoax by someone who lives near the equator.

Actually, most of the college freshmen this year were born in '88. I was born in '87 but that's just because I'm old. ....well, older. And also lots of kids wear hard contacts still because supposedly they "correct" your vision a little bit. The rest is pretty true, though.

You need to read closer. Orthostatic is in your dictionary, listed as an adjective. Orthostatics is apparently not. Orthostasis is the noun form of the adjective orthostatic. Stasis, noun. Static, adjective. Statics... well that's a different story. And I have no idea why "orthostasis" is not listed. Perhaps different people have different conventions when referring to this. As Dust has already corrected me (yet again in this thread), orthostatics and orthostasis are both words. My impression after further reading was that orthostasis was used in reference to the condition and orthostatics was used in reference to the test for orthostatic hypertension. But here are the words of a voice I trust: Yes it was in a private message. Sue me. And the google comment was just so people would know that googling "orthostatics" would not yield any useful information, which lead to my completely retarded first post which was meant to request information, but ended up commenting on something I had no business commenting on because I am vastly unqualified. I only found good information after googling "orthostasis". Try it yourself, one word will yield absolutely nothing useful while the other will yield much more. Apparently you are also as unqualified on a different subject: reading your dictionary. One letter can change the meaning of words. Be more careful when looking things up. To the rest of you, I could not apologize enough for my blunderous involvment on this thread.

Last time something like this got posted the responses were less than happy, to say the least. Nice to see people taking things with more humor.

I'm assuming that the second paramedic would be available to help on scene but would stay on the SUV to drive it back to wherever they keep it.

I suggest looking up your local 7-digit number for 911 and putting it on your cell phone contact list. This might take a while even with google, but I was able to find mine with the keywords "9-1-1 7-digit number [city, state]". You might have to play around with the keywords a bit. Take out the dashes, use 10 instead of 7, etc. If anyone happens to be in my county, (Santa Clara, CA), you can find your emergency number on page 11 of here. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a website that gave the local number for everywhere, so you'll probably have to look it up yourself.

Now all she's gotta do is throw in a box of condoms and she wins.

Wow you guys need to lighten up. This is about the most common internet prank in the world. In fact, if you spend enough time on the net, you'll eventually be able to tell when it's coming. (Videos or games that require you to look very closely, turn the sound way up, etc.)

Heh, sorry 'bout the thread hijack. But anyways, it says near the bottom of the article posted by whit72:

You must excuse me, as I'm not familiar with this imagery. Please clarify.

Oh yes, I knew I forgot something: control of muscles after being tazered. Some claim that the student wouldn't be able to stand up after being tazed and some claim that that first claim is pretty stupid. And as JPINFV has done, the non-medical issues of a tazer will preferably be kept to a different thread.

Apparently, they can be used more than twice at a time. Not to start a flame war, this video seems to be a controvertial subject. Some other questions I would like to add: My suitemate recently bought a game which involves electrical shocks to the hands, and the warning includes epilepsy. Would that also be a consideration and exactly how? (I'm assuming that it might cause seizures, but what's the probability at that voltage?) [s:985841eac8]Screws, and other implanted metal parts? What kind of damage could they cause and would it matter how far they are?[/s:985841eac8] (answered already in the post posted while I was writing this one.)

So this person posts on some test anxiety and needs some support, and the response is to berate the person instead of responding to the post. That's great, but not helpful. Sure, this person probably needs an attitude change, and needs to put things into perspective, and somebody should tell her that, but saying "go to mcdonalds" or expecting everybody to be G.I. Jane Jr, and then nitpicking on her choice of words, all the while forgetting to respond to the original post, isn't going to help all that much. Berate this person for an attitude problem, sure, but somebody remember that she asked for help and slip in some helpful advice once in a while. Also, this probably would have been more appropriate as a blog post. So to respond the original post: This test that's coming up is like everything else in life that you need to do. If you need to do it, then you just gotta do it. There are many test taking strategies, and you probably know the one that's best for you. But as a general rule, if you want to do well, overprepare. There's some other common sense things, such as understanding over knowing. If I know why and how something happens is much better than just knowing that it happens, I find that it's much easier to remember. And practice, practice, practice, in the same format that you know the test is going to be in, or harder. Practice with friends, study groups, on your family, recite memorized stuff in the shower, whatever. Nothing tells you that you can do something more than knowing that you've done it many times before. Your patient assessment paper might look like the freaking constitution, but once you try it a couple of times it makes a lot more sense. If you have no idea what the test is going to be like, go back to the original idea: overprepare. Now I could say more but it's 630 in the morning, I've been slacking for about a week and a half, and I have a lab report due in about 2 hours.

Since I don't know the context, I'm assuming by the post itself that it's a joke. Because hey, ever since NAFreeTA instead of NAFairTA got passed, how many factories have you seen in the U.S. of A.? And since when have GED courses been useful besides for a GPA boost? Plus there's the obvious stupidity.

Since I didn't see it when I skimmed this thread, I hope it hasn't been mentioned before, but... In my emt class, we were taught to "track" or "bag down" when the patient is breathing abnormally slow or fast. Tracking is to bag the patient every breath, and bag him again between breaths. Bagging down is to bag the patient with his/her breaths, but not every breath. We would supposedly do it in a manner as to be bagging the patient bewteen 12-20 times a minute. In this way we could "multiply" or "divide" the RPM so as to place it between 12 and 20. i.e., if the patient was breathing at 5 RPM, you would bag him twice between each breath as well as with each breath, to "raise his RPM" to 15. Or if the patient was breathing at 30 RPM, you would bag with him every other breath, to "lower his RPM" to 15. Is this valid or is this another medical myth along with trendelenburg and the platinum 10?

Ok, Dr. I-can't-recognize-tongue-in-cheek-statements. Yes, I actually am familiar with ADD/ADHD, as all of my teachers since kindergarten through junior high school have told my parents that they think I have it. Although I do not actually have ADD, I share many of the symptoms of people who do. I can relate to the reading of the book example very well, as it happens to me invariably every time I try to read a book. Especially if the book is boring, when I read a book I go through the motions and move my eyes along with the words through several pages until I realize I don't remember anything I've read, and have to go back and read it again, sometimes over and over again. Sometimes, just like you, I realize that i stopped reading a while ago, and have been staring at the book. Although it doesn't happen to me as much as people with ADD, it happens to me a LOT. I also have trouble listening to people talk, just as you do, as even when I think what they're saying is important, I usually phase out mid-sentence if they use a word or phrase that reminds me of something else. Even writing these posts takes a long time because I commonly leave words or phrases out of sentences when typing, and have to go back and check and re-check. In short, I don't have ADD, but my attention span is ridiculously short. And I did see the part where you're sensitive to stimulants, and were considering trying the non-stimulant type. Although I don't know anything about the drugs currently in use for ADD, your language implied that there were drugs that you haven't tried yet. Thus, I recommended trying the other type, rather than trying to tough your way through it as your language implied you were going to do. Makes sense? And yes, I know that you can't "forget what you're doing halfway through an OPA insertion." It was a humor-intended hyperbole; or in plain english: a joke. Apparently I did not make my post tongue-in-cheeky enough to be recognized as a joke (or overly tongue-in-cheeky enough to be insulting), so I'm sorry if I insulted you. It was not my intention.

I have an idea: know the material so well that you can pass even with your ADD. Everybody wins. But yeah, you might want to try those meds if you need them. Don't want you forgetting what you're doing halfway through an OPA insertion.

It's not EMS, but the most memorable t-shirt line I've read is "STOP READING MY SHIRT"

Since AZCEP had already posted the information I was asking for, I decided not to post anything more, but I just in case anyone'd like to know: Please note that the official word is ORTHOSTASIS. "Orthostatics" was the cause of all my confusion and crap information because it is the incorrect grammatical form of orthostatic hypertension, and a google search using "orthostatics" will give you absolutely no good information. The correct form is ORTHOSTASIS, or and I have yet to see anyone say that. Even in my class when it was briefly mentioned by my teacher she said "orthostatics". ORTHOSTASIS. and again I apologize for all my crap in this thread. Happy googling.

Well going on the information I found in the quick google search above mentioned, it is indicated in patients with 1. blood/fluid loss or 2. dehydration. Blood and fluid loss would be pretty obvious in most cases, and would warrant a quick transport above a standing orthostatics test (imho), however a quick unofficial seated orthostatics test in the ambulance wouldn't hurt anyone. The only other thing that caught my attention during the quick google search was a forum post on handling syncope, not recommending taking time on scene to check for orthostatics, but recommending the lying to seated orthostatics check. Of course I speak with no authority and apologize for any misinformation. Speaking from personal experience, I've only experienced orthostatics either after sleeping for a long time or when I was dehydrated.

Orthostatics was briefly mentioned in my class by the teacher, but we never really went over it. After a quick and unthorough google search, it seems that an orthostatics test would be only suited for dehydration, since if the patient was a victim of blood loss, you wouldn't want to wait for the 2-3 minute test, plus it would be rather obvious unless you were looking for vampire victims, in which case a simple DCAP-BTLS check on the side of the neck would be sufficient. Perhaps Ace844 would be kind enough to post a couple of his 5-page studies.

I think he meant that if he has an MI, paramedics will be more likely to be called than that anesthesiologist's students.

A light-hearted satirical mockery of rather innocent threads unrelated to religion and politics that precede rather heated discussions related to religion and politics. For some reason I feel that there's been a spike in their quantity, although now that I look back at the forums it's not a very big spike, but I felt that it would be nice if someone jumped in and cautioned against it happening to other threads. I myself am guilty of thread hijacking. In this mock-up I would most closely be person C. Although, I must say the idea is not entirely from my own head. I must thank DwayneEMTB and TerrfyinFlyinSrvc for inspiring this for me. AKA letting me steal their ideas . (I know that's probably not the correct use of inspire but I'm too lazy to think of the correct grammatical use.) Remember, if it's not on-topic there's no shame in PMs!