SARgal

Here is the lovely pitbull wearing her very best fire red lipcolor. I am looking for a lizard in a snowbank.... anyone seen him?

=D> =D> =D> Stupendous!!! Shame on me for giving up on you all so early. I should have known that Michael would have come up with it!!!!

How about a photo of the first Brady Emergency Care book published? Not sure what it would be called... YOU do the search! LOL

Not a great photo,but here it is: Let's see a nurse dressed as Tigger!

Could this be it? http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/y...3_1930_11714630 IF so, then let's see a picture of Barbara Eden's belly button....

Ran a google search and the second item was this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...p;dopt=Abstract Nitrendipine: an antidote to cardiac and lethal toxicity of cocaine. * Trouve R, * Nahas G. Nitrendipine, a Ca2+ modulator was tested in the rat as an antagonist to the cardiac toxicity of cocaine and as an antidote to the acute lethal effects of this drug. In a first series of experiments, nitrendipine (1.46 X 10(-3) mg/kg/min) when simultaneously administered intraarterially with cocaine (2 mg/kg/min) suppresses the arrhythmias induced by cocaine and increases survival time from 73 +/- 33 min to 309 +/- 118 min and the lethal dose of cocaine from 146 +/- 66 mg/kg to 618 +/- 236 mg/kg (p less than 0.003). Nitrendipine also protects the heart from the acute morphological lesions induced by cocaine administration and antagonizes some of the central effects of cocaine. In a second series, 5 rats administered 60 mg/kg of cocaine intraperitoneally had a survival time of 8'06 +/- 5'20. Death was attributed to convulsions and respiratory arrest. Animals treated with nitrendipine (129 +/- 23 mg/kg) 4'30" after cocaine administration survived. Nitrendipine appears to have general protective effects against cocaine cardiac toxicity and the acute lethal effects of this alkaloid. PMID: 3797422 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~sm76/yellizartong.jpg Now how about a wooden computer?

Well, here I thought I was ready for class, but now I have to go change clothes since I pissed myself laughing at this! SARgal

$785 :oops: I thought it would be much higher. :wink: SArgal

Emilea, Your enthusiasm is fantastic! Enjoy your new adventure! SARgal

Pericardial thump?

I think it would be more accurately stated that drinking despite the consequences is, by definition, alcoholism. SARgal

In my book that just makes them asses, not alcoholics. Two different issues and there is help for one! Don't fall for their crap, don't get caught in the middle. SARgal

OMG! It would be so very, very easy to hijack this thread right now. I'll try stay focused... It's true that certain professions are held to some higher standard than other professions. You never hear people gripe about seeing their garbage man at the corner bar last Saturday being completely toasted. But let that be their kids' teacher, their psychologist, etc... I had a friend who taught high school in Wisconsin who came to Michigan when she wanted to cut loose. It was safer than running into a parent or student (at the time the legal age in WI was 18, I think). This topic also keeps popping up on The City forums. Every time an EMS person gets nailed for something or other. Surprise. We're human. SARgal

Too funny! SARgal

Just a note, the cover story on the magazine put out by Cygnus, "EMS", is "The Violent Side of EMS". You can take a peek here[web:ae6975d768]http://www.emsresponder.com/publication/[/web:ae6975d768] . I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I thought I'd throw that out there anyway. I hope I linked that correctly... SARgal

Congratulations!!! Bet your glad the wait is over! SARgal

That's funny, I signed up for a three-year volunteer stint, but am seriously considering going on to paramedic for the paid career... SARgal

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Our instructor set up a station for each splinting device, broke us into groups and rotated us through every station, every device. Each person had the opportunity to experience each role in EMT-B/Patient application of each device. This is how he operates every practical portion of our training.

I was just wondering this same thing ... should we all be paramedic certified, eliminating MFRs, Basics? I'm still in Basic school and am learning, more than anything, how little I will be certified to do to help someone. We're a very rural paid volly service. The nearest hosp with ALS service is at least 20 minutes out; the nearest trauma hosp is 45 min away. Usually, when we end up calling ALS, it's off to the larger/trauma hosp as well. Doesn't it just make sense that we are ALS providers? Yeah, financing is a HUGE issue. Population (year 2000): 614 Median resident age: 45.1 years Median household income: $24,545 (year 2000) Median house value: $33,400 (year 2000) We can barely keep the darn school running. But personally, *I* live here by choice, and I am willing to pay more in taxes to live here, to support better emergency care and better education. I say raise the taxes and let those that don't like it leave. Most here don't ask my views on these issues... They'd rather to bury their heads in the sand and wait for the day the township magically recovers and becomes a great place to live. Whoops, uh... what was the topic again? Do we really need Basics, should we all be paramedics? So um, yeah, I've been mulling this over also. I'm leaning toward all paramedics.... I'm starting to think that if you decide to be a pre-hospital provider, you should be able to provide. Call me crazy.

Pat was killed by zombies during the party and revived by the Ovu Mobani mask, which made her the demon incarnate. ..so don't p!$$ me off. LOL

If you do take Dust's advice, you can go here... http://www.emergencyekg.com/ SARgal

Absolutely fantastic! I'd love to see Michigan do something like this. SARgal

heh heh heh I just had to pop in to see who the latest victim of whacker-slamming was going to be. Take a deep breath, and get ready for the beating of your life! LOL You definitely should have run a search first to save yourself the pain.