houstonsbravest

ive placed a bunch of ejs in the field. laying flat and with the legs up helps out alot. ive placed them mostly on cardiac arrest patients but have placed some on hypoglycemic patients with no veins. its aggresive but if their sugar is say below 20 and theyre unconscious i feel its neccessary. the ones that are conscious and need one is tricky but laying flat and turning head is the only way i know.

yeah that lp-15 is heavy!!! the zoll is half the weight. the phillips is a neat little machine, about the same weight as a lp-12. the phillips has an awesome cord management pouch. glad to help out!

in Houston we are in a transition from lp-12 to another monitor, which we are testing. its between zoll x, lp-15, and phillips heart start mrx. the zoll x is super light, the bp cuff gets a bp really fast and accurate. on cardiac arrest patients it is very efficient it charges up to 200 joules but actuallys shocks up to 280 from what i saw. the rep said the pads talk to eath other and see how much current is needed to get a good biphasic shock. the 12 lead print out is different than an lp-12. white paper with faint big and small boxes its a 3 by 4 read out, different than were used to. i had it for about 1 month and overall i liked it. i had 4 cardiac arrests with it and a couple cvas. no stemis tho. sweet little cpr sternum pad to measure the depth and rate of compressions. very long battery life, had a long cpr case where he was shocked 9 times and maybe lasted an hour and 45 minutes. so far ive tried all of them and the zoll x is very high up there on my list.