Just Plain Ruff

no, those requests are all true. Every single one of them. You really need to get out more!!!!! Facebook is rotting your brain!!!!!!!!

no no thats not what I'm advocating at all. I simply was stating the witness to one drug being done that way. I too would be cringing in my boots as well as saying "are you really sure you want to do that" to the doctor even. The patient was very stable and there was no reason to believe the patient would jerk or pull back thus jeopardizing the needle into the vein patency. I was really really nervous watching it though. I also do NOT recommend mainlining D50 at any time no matter the circumstances but I was in no position to contradict the doctor. I expressed my concern and he said "i've done this quite a few times and I know what i'm doing" in the end it all turned out ok but I knew the risk just as you know them. Again, I am NOT advocating administering any medication mainline in EMS that might cause tissue necrosis. I hope my position is more clear now. I'm also not advocating the mainlining of these types of drugs under any circumstances.

Actually Mobey, I witnessed a physician giving an amp of d50 via a AC injection minus the IV. Didn't really hurt anything but we verified that the needle was in the AC and the patient was fully conscious. Not sure why he was mainlining the d50 though but I can definately see the D50 being mainlined and the entire amount being injected into the tissue rather than the vein. I don't recommend it except for extreme circumstances.

EWWWW you said Hip Hop, that's racist verbage. You can't say hip hop anymore. I'm just funnin you too.

I'm sorry but if this person wanted to do a casting call they would be here replying to the questions that have been raised. But................. they aren't.

Wow that was the best show ever!!!! I just had a tingling up my leg when that show came on. No wait, that was Jerry Sandusky's quote of the night last night regarding young boys.

Are you looking at the same site I am. All the links to the left have hip hop in them and bubba grillz and the like. Did you actually click on the links?

That's why the aussies are not allowed on normal TV.

I tend to second the stupidity of tubing a rectum with a ET Tube for drug administration Just stick the syringe in the butt hole and push the plunger. It works better than anything you can jury rig up. Just make sure to pull the entire syringe out. I have "mainlined" pateints before. Patient refuses IV but needs an IV injection. Patient allowed the injection in the vein. Didn't bat an eye doing this. Patient felt better after the injection that he allowed the IV and fluid administration.

How bout this reference http://www.bigdawgsbling.com/grillz.html

Just us or will there be those in white coats and syringes of thorazine present in these talks.

You might be ghetto if you have more gold in your teeth than on your ring finger. See that's racist because we all know that not many white people will have gold and diamond front teeth. It's usually reserved for black men and some black women. So this is a racist thread. I'm redneck, Instead of buying a turtle for my son I went to the local lake and swam and caught one. I caught my dinner with my fist in the shallow area of the pond.

You lost out on that deal. I had the same deal put to me and I made enough money to retire in the lap of luxury in my backyard clubhouse I built for my son. (reference my other thread)

I meant to say front yard. I am true redneck. When we got rid of our sofa about 5 years ago, my son and I put it in the front yard and left it there for a couple of days. We would go out there every day and wait for the ice cream truck. We'd then have ice cream and sit and talk. Finally we got rid of it. Our most recent furniture escapade was moving the couch that replaced the above redneck couch into my son's club house in our back yard. We have a nearly furnished club house complete with windows and a loft for sleeping. The loft isn't done yet but it's on the list for this winter to build. We put a airconditioner in the window of the house, ran two orange extension cords to the shed and put powerstrips on them. We have a couch, a chair, a table. Also included is the TV stand with PS2 game system, soon to be upgraded to a x-box 360. I'll have to put pictures of it here. Plus our internet wireless signal actually makes it to the clubhouse so it's x-box 360live some day real soon.

I'll be surprised if Crotchity doesn't chime in here. Claim it's not racism all you want but someone will prove you wrong. Its sort of like saying that gay people who I know are snappy dressers. That's not intentionally inflammatory as the many gay people that I know are very nice dressers but one could consider what I just wrote as intentionally gay bashing even though the spirit is non-inflammatory. Or saying that all rednecks have cars up on blocks in their driveways. Or saying all fat people are jolly and funny. Or saying all bikers have tattoos and belong to gangs. But I digress. Tell me what color the person is that you think of when you say the only artwork is what's painted on their fingernails? I don't remember seeing many white women with brightly painted fingernails in designs and the like compared to many black women who have their fingernails painted up really nice. And I think some of the designs are really good. Depends on where the woman gets her nails done.

dammit Mike, and I thought that I was going to get a butt load of money. But it seems that Ih ave to have some stupid account and give you all my personal information upfront.

then why do you refuse to reveal yourself instead of a bandana covered half face. ha ha Just kidding.

ok, this doesn't sound right. First off the email address is to me.com address and I would have expected the person promoting this show would use a studio or network television email address. Second, they give a link to their personal facebook page with virturally NO identifiable information as to who this person is. Chelsea, I urge you to come back here in response and tell us more information. There is no-one on this site other than some of the glory hounds who will send you pictures or videos without a single bit of information other than a new tv show that they are casting for. Hope to get more info soon. Prove me wrong Chelsea Signed, Skepticalmedic@me.com

Great suggestion Herbie. I'm thinking of using each of my weeknights that I'm in the hotel for a differnet theme, aside from getting out more in Grand Rapids and finally meeting one of the stellar members of this site one night one week. But seriously. A different subject each night. I've got my game plan I just need to implement it and get the books/material I need to do it. thanks all, what a great start.

Give them a day in the life of a code or critical patient and what they can do to affect the outcome of the patient. What will the medic want in a particular situation. What will the emt's see and be expected to do when the code happens? You could run them through a generic ACLS class that gives them a basic understanding of each drug, basic understanding of airway control and a myriad of other things that happen in the thick of things. you could also teach them to drive not like their lives depended upon it but the patients. I say this because usually the emt is driving like a bat out of hell to the hospital tossing me around like a cheap hooker in a dingy hotel, er I mean like a cheap suit. Teach them to take the corners easy, take the acceleration and braking easy and try not to kill me in th eback. The patient is already dead, don't make me dead. I have physically had to have the driver stop the ambulance, tell him to reboot his fricking head and start driving again, but safer. Once done with the call I then place a cpr dummy in the back on the cot, have the idiot driver do cpr while I drove a little bit erratic but not enough to throw him around the back. Every emt/driver that I have done that to has become a better more cognizant driver.

I put this topic out not just for me but for everyone really. We seem to anymore put ourselves in a silo and we only learn what we have to learn at the current time. Consider EMS, you only learn or read when you are either being tested or you have to do some CEU's to relicense. I'm wanting to get out of my comfort zone. I have placed each suggestion on a list of things to read. I have already read and seen "the Help" so that's a non-starter. My first choice I knew would be the one AK suggested as my respect for his perspective is pretty big. I will next tackle the one doc mentioned. All others will be read in turn. I can usually read a full novel in less than 2 weeks worth of airplane flights, in about 10 hours or so. So I read quite quickly. Thanks guys and gals. Wendy, I'm game for the topic of Biomedical ethics, what do you have in mind. I'm not really wanting you guys to give me the answers, god forbid that were to happen here, since we don't give the answers to the newbies when they come here. I am just interested in what you guys find would be good reading to broaden horizons. I can go to barnes and noble anytime and just pick up something off the shelf, and I do that a lot, I mean a lot, but I'm looking for personal recommendations as to what some of the members, you included find educational and worth your while. I mean I wouldn't grab a book on underwater basket weaving or how to tie a bow tie and other knots, but I do respect the minds of this diverse group and was hoping for suggestions.

Couldn't really think of a topic title that fit the post without it being really really long. I'm looking to branch out my knowledge base completely away from both ER consulting/EHR consulting and EMS. I'm looking for something that will broaden my horizons so to speak. I don't want to learn about the most recent fad science or hokey pokey stuff. I'm wanting something that is interesting. If you say Civil rights history I'll say not interested. If you say Human resources and how it affects the rights and benefits of every facet of society then I'm not going to be interested. Something that will make me a little bit smarter for reading it, or something that will make me say "Shazaam, I need to learn more about this" So hit me with your best suggestions. OH yeah, no religious studies, I get enough of those at home with my comparitive religions book that I got for free at my last client. So far I'm finishing up hinduism and soon to start Islam. I have monday nights, tuesday nights and wednesday nights to either go to a movie, sit in a hotel room and watch tv or chat in emtcity OR I can be productive and learn something new.

funny thing is most of the times I've been in chat with the person there hasn't been any drama at the time except with that wussy Kiwi.