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What about those who are visiting our country legally (vacation, holiday, work or other) and find themselves in need of our assistance? Do you feel the same? Or, what about those who have just arrived (legal, illegal or otherwise) who've not had any time to acclimate? I think this is fantastic and there isn't any reason why we can't improve all our skills and learn some of the language of the patients in our areas. How many times have you run on someone who speaks English, but reverts to his or her native language when they are critical?

Exactly. To provide care you must be able to communicate. I do not agree with what many of my patients are involved with yet I still treat them to the best of my ability. I commend you for the attitude of a true health care professional. Wow I just noticed someone gave me a negative for providing a resource. That is just low by who ever did that.

Hello everyone. I have a few people from here in my address book so I wanted to warn everyone. If you get an email from Sekhet3 that is lacking a subject line please DO NOT open it. I am very sorry if it went out to you. I got an email this morning from one of my husband's accounts containing a link. Since it was from him I thought nothing of it and opened it. He sends me links to webcomics all the time. I was more than alittle unhappy when I saw the link was for drugs. So please again: email+ no subject= instant deletion and again I'm very sorry. ::sighs::

This has been happening quite often to people.....

I voted An online option is way easier than looking for medical spanish classes. Regardless of how I feel about immigration or a national language etc, I want to be able to provide the best care possible to my patients, and that requires communication. I've had to treat enemy combatants before, and I sure as hell didn't agree their politics (or anything else for that matter), but I learned enough of their language to provide proper care. If I can handle that, learning a little basic Spanish isn't asking much. Just as soldiers are "apolitical" in the public eye, so are medical providers in their practice. We have a duty and oath to uphold regardless of circumstances. edited for wording

Our lifting and moving is transferring another co-worker back and forth from stair chair to stretcher and back, and loading and unloading them from the truck on the stretcher. Needs to be better but, not my department.

Eh, Basic question... Does the pain radiate anywhere? What does V4R show? Posterior V7,V8,V9 show any depression, Elevation? LBBB new for this PT?, ACS maybe, With Timeline, Transmural Infarct maybe, Myocarditis... Maybe. Cardiac packet labs. CPk-MB^, Troponin^, BUN/Creatine^, Potassium^, WBC^? Syncopal episodes? Febrile? Pupils equal/reactive? H/A? Tinnitus? Blurred vision? Paresthesia? Any HX of AMS in recent hours? I disagree with FL_Medic on Paramedics interpreting 12 Leads. If you, Or your Medics have issues with 12 Leads in your area, Then maybe y'all should reevaluate your curriculum. Why would you even consider not doing a 12 Lead with a 3,4,5 lead showing ectopy? ECG Interpretation in the field is huge in our area with our Medical Directors and receiving facilities. And yes... I said diagnose and treat for the people about to jump all over that. Maybe we just have good training, And know what were doing? Don't mean to sound arrogant.

Half the EMT's/medics wouldn't pass that at my company!! sadly...........

On a folding ferno stretcher... We had to carry a 200lb man from a second floor room, down the stairs, out and down more stairs. Then with out setting it down, walk up and into the ambulance and place it on the bench seat, fold down the wheels and posts and secure it. That was the same test they did for decades. We use Rescue Randy now, just in case someone drops the litter, he weighs 165lbs.

...And...?

In MT I see jobs for EMT-B's now and then some private ambu's Commercial operations hire to for plant safety and the State Fire agencies hire B's for wildland season on the bigger fires which is a cake job most of your clientele are 18-40 with no med history so most everything is straight forward. its mostly seasonal but if you get on the teams its a sweet gig and you get to see lots of country.

Yes, sorry, I meant V1 and V2. :roll: I did have another patient a few months ago who had what turned out to be a massive intracranial bleed, and he also had a funky rhythm on the ECG. It looked like bigeminy, but it only lasted for a short while and he was back in a normal sinus rhythm or a sinus tach by the time we got him into the ambulance. This really through us off because we started thinking that the cause of his being unresponsive (with only a weak gag reflex) might be something cardiac, although that didn't make sense since his skins were flushed and his BP was within normal limits. When the ER did a 12-lead, it showed that he was having an acute MI (the computer actually gave the alert). As it turned out though, this was misleading. Our patient turned out to be having a massive head bleed. He was pretty young, 40ish. After we'd dropped him off at the ER and I was doing my paperwork, he woke up and became fully alert and orient. The crappy thing about this call was that I, thinking that he must've just had a seizure and been postictal (though of course I'd never seen anyone postictal be totally unresponsive like this), told his wife that he would be totally okay and that he'd just had a seizure. It turns out that he was just having a lucid interval, and that soon after I left he became totally unresponsive again and that they found a massive bleed on the CT.

I saw this and thought hey it's free. Not the highest quality but good still. They are entered in a contest Pepsi has so they can earn money to improve the quality so vote for them. Please don't turn this into a political debate of why should I learn Spanish when they should learn English. Regardless of opinions Spanish is a large part of the USA populations first language so maybe we can learn a little so we can better help our patients. I have learned some Spanish and also sign language because of the large deaf community in my area. Even if not fluent you can calm a patient by at least speaking a little of their language. http://www.refresheverything.com/firstresponders

Thanks for not complying with my request. Start your own topic if you want to bash those that speak other languages. Thank you.