BushyFromOz

Sounds like the case of a testosterone induced 20 yr old wannabe hero to me.

But then I'm old and only 28 hours away from retirement so my views may be clouded by old age. :-}

Congrats mate, Im jealous!

24 years to go......

Awww yeah, everyone loves sex. Take the most intimate, private, vulnerable emotional moments and add some weird smells, sounds and mess into it and the occasionally outburst of laughter. Whats not to like about it!

Gets pork crackling

Puts in a quarter

A crew I may or may not have known or worked with may or may not have gone into a hospital where nurses may or may not have confused vancomycin and vecuronium.

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

Hello everyone i am currently applying to study either in Australian Catholic University (Bachelor of Paramedicine) and Victoria University (Bachelor of Health Science(Paramedic). Which course is better? and what are the differences? Thank you

Double or single degree?

If you can, do the ACU double degree.

If not either bachelors degrees are fine, you mind find that VU is better integrated into ambulance Victoria if that is who you would like to work for.

Happy to talk more offline, PM me and ill give you my work email.

I've worked in Sprinters, too. It was a nice ride up front. They were a little cramped in the back.

Yup...

We had f350's here when i started, but the damn things were so costly to maintiain and breaking down all the time they got the flick. The other thing is most platforms needed left / right hand steer conversion

Love my sprinter

http://www.colacambulance.com/colac_past%20vic%20ambulances.htm

Pretty much a pictorial history of our vehicles by

Saw that 3 or 4 days ago.. interesting aint it =D

It's because nobody can understand us, you are an Australian so by default you are barely understandable because you're pissed 24/7 and me, well I'm so bloody destroyed on lorazepams that I can barely contain my faculties ....

I am curious as to the use of an alpha agonist like metaraminol vs a beta agonist like adrenaline as to which produces a better effect. I think we use adrenaline primarily because it's already in the toolbox ...

I spoke to someone from medical standard the other day about this, basically said the evidence for norad over adrenaline was very thin. I cant find anything that categorically says that norad improves outcomes or reduces mortality, just some cautions on side effects and transient lactataemia with adrenaline

This has come up in a theoretical discussion in the management of an octogeneric septic shock patient with tachycardia. We don't have norad but aramine is on the vehicles. I was kind of wondering if anyone has seen it used prehospitally, I know CCU has used it here at times.

And I'm only drink 12 hours a day thanks =D

I thought this would get more interest

How man mics a minute do you run that at kiwi?

Anyone using it prehospitally or critical care?

It's interesting how economies interact. Due to the attention of the opiate epidemic, less scripts are being written overall and there are crackdowns on pill pushers. This has driven the price of heroin up as there is more demand. Heroin has gotten so expensive that an alternative had to be found. Everyone say hello to Krokodil.

I will never make the mistake of looking this up on youtube ever again

Checkmydiastolic

My50thbeerwasspiked

NvrCGP

Kiwi, I dunno about pavlovaland but if our state government would actually invest in some IT infrastructure so record sharing was able to happen between those prescribing and those filling the prescriptions a lot of this prescription drug abuse could be avoided.

Endone is easier to get than heroine, and its legal too!

English grammer usually helps others understand what you are saying.

You are not texting your crew here at the CITY.

I dunno bro, the post reads more like someone whose primary language is not English to me

Interesting thread

No way i could get HEMS to this. all Air Ambulance in this state is owned and operated by my service (noth fixed wing and HEMS)

I mean i could ASK for HEMS, and im sure i would be politely refused, followed by a "WTF were you thinking" conversation a few days later

Are requests for HEMS vetted when they are recieved, or is the report from the scene the only information required?

Allergic to it?......check closely and you will find the person that told you that is probably an Oxygen thief Bushy.......

supposedly she went to hospital once and after they gave her "the oxygen" and later on she had a runny nose

Clearly allergic to oxygen

had someone who was allergic to oxygen once.....

Why would you need to sedate him with a GCS of 3?

I dont get a choice if inducing hypothermia for ROSC management

Whats the patient weight?

100mcg Fentanyl

.1 mg/kg midazolam

1.5mk/kg suxemethonium

Tube

8mg pancuronium

morph/midaz infusion, start off low at 1mg/hr

upto 2L ice cold saline, aim for temp of less than 34C

Edit. I dont do this stuff yet, just trying to get into the spirit of things =D

ECG / 12ld, GCS, temp + full set of vital signs

Get them on my kmonitor

Prepare for RSI and cooling

Adrenaline infusion drawn up in case she bottoms out again.

i would have witheld the narcan. suspected polypharm OD + other issues i think this patient is better of with their airway protected, their ETCO2 managed and the perfusion supported. I'll let the hospital figure out the cause from this point on.

There's nothing like a miss, and then another, on a critical patient with a million people watching to make you really, really wish that you did something else for a living...And do you know why the pressure is so high? At least for me...the bullshit belief that, "If I was a good provider I'd have hit that."

Gosh, i had that some internal monologue a couple of nights ago, and made worse by the fact the onlookers included the same people who endorsed you for an ICP course.

And yet i know the real pressure was only coming from myself.

Yeah, well, I'm guessing plenty of us know how I get after I've been here for a bit...

Like it or lump it..it doesn't appear that I'm going anywhere anytime soon...

I dont know if us mere mortals can handle that dwayne

And welcome brandi, look foreward to hearingmore from you.

No but I did have a partner once that had Another One Bites The Dust as a ring tone that did go off during a CPR. Talk about

too funny!

Just curious CheekyEMT, why dispatch as a fall back? You strike me as someone with a passion for patient care. The current AMPDS system (I'm assuming that's the system you're dispatched under in Ontario) is de-humanizing.

Technically the determinants make sense but the question process to arrive at those determinants is tragically flawed

I will go out on a limb and say we are using the same AMPDS despatch system here. I know it is used by services in canada (as was toild to us when it was adopted)

It is so risk averse it is killing people through incompetence

When AHA came out with their new compression guidelines (100 beats per minute) they recommended singing "Stayin' Alive" to keep pace as the song is about 100 bpm. The downside to all of that is "Another One Bites the Dust" is also 100 bpm. Interestingly enough the Queen tune seems to have a better following.

oh, ok.... please tell me people dont actually sing these on jobs??