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I would also use someone elses inhaler, like let's say my own. I have one for odd times when I get wheezy. It's not been used often. I would only use it for specific circumstances, such as long time for ambulance to get there and the condition of the patient. If you are working in a first aid capacity you should have some idea of what local hospital is your medical control or find out from the ambulance service in the area who their medical control is. You could always call medical control and see if the doctor on duty will give you orders to give the inhaler. If I am working first aid and I have no ability to give meds I'll give medical control a call and ask them to allow me to use the inhaler. Giving them all the particualars as well as how far the ambulance is away. More than likely the doc will give the order to use the inhaler. Ruff

Say you're a first aider and you're called for an asthma attack case. You give the girl oxygen for now. But you have no inhalers in your bag and the patient forgot hers, but you have people offering to give her theirs. Would you give her somebody else's inhaler to use? Or would you just wait for improvement and if condition doesn't improve-- call an ambulance? Seems like the latter makes more sense, but I guess using somebody else's inhaler isn't so detrimental-- particularly if the patient recognizes her medications. Right?

what an Uff-da this is! :-) Two Minnesota mechanical engineers were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A woman walks by and asks what they were doing. "Ve're supposed to find da height of da flagpole," said Sven, "but ve don't haff a ladder." The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocketbook, took a measurement, announced, "Eighteen feet, six inches," and walked away. Ole shook his head and laughed. "Ain't dat just like a voman! Ve ask for da height and she gives us da length!" Sven and Ole are currently serving in the United States Senate!

Ruff I like this statement. This AM I wasn't even thinking along the lines of On-Line MedCon. Perfect way to CYA and still get the job done. I will say if your in my area the Director will say NO let one of my Medics handle it. I was denied ASA for chest pain when we didn't have ALS available. Thankfully the wife remembered the Bayer commercials wink wink

For VT, I have been fortunate enough to not have had a failure. You can get some hypotension with propofol but any problem I've had corrects pretty easily with a fluid bolus and waiting out the propofol. For cardioverion, I have a personal limit of 3 shocks of increasing joules. If I can't convert them after 3 shocks, I call one of the smart doctors (cardiology) to figure out what to do next.

Would we be having this conversation if the guy was black? would we be having this conversation if the guy had posted on his own facebook page? would we be having this discussion if he was writing to his private blog? Would we be having this discussion if he was actually ranting about his non-glbt co-workers about how big a bunch of Screw ups they were? Just some additional questions to sweeten the pot so to speak.

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