JPINFV Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Unless the patient is in cardiac arrest, it should! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwiology Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Just because you can do something does not mean you should Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPINFV Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 So you missed the entire part where he talks about when you would want to do an awake intubation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwiology Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 (edited) Yeah pretty much because I have little interest in starting a thing .... and may have been watching pronz at the same time Like I said, I have yet to be taught something that is "wrong" but I think what may be "wrong" is simply a grossly oversimplified approach to or misunderstanding of something based upon inadequate knowledge Edited June 9, 2012 by Kiwiology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERDoc Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 A compound fracture is now called an open fracture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwiology Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 A compound fracture is now called an open fracture. I have also heard that, I learnt compound fracture so I just call it that NTG / GTN, epinephrine / adrenaline, hyperlipidaemia / dyslipidaemia, ERDoc / dickhead, same diff righ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bieber Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 After thinking about it, I realized what is probably the single biggest lie I have ever heard in EMS. It has come in multiple different forms from several different people; regardless, the real lie is always in the first two words and made by those who would hold us back and keep us down rather than uplift and advance us: "Paramedics/EMT's can't..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFIB Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 That basics are not bagmen for the medics. That we actually save that many lives. That what we do is somehow heroic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERDoc Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 (edited) Yup, same stuff (kiwi/sheepsex). I also learned it as compound fx, but in an effort to keep things that make sense, we went with open vs closed. Other myths that I can recall: Spinal immobilization actually immobilizes spines Trendelenberg actually does something Edited June 9, 2012 by ERDoc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFIB Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Pressure points contain bleeding. All trauma patients need O2 at 15 lts/min. All patients can benefit from O2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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