Kiwiology

Go down to the Krogers, Safeway, Voldermart, Food Lion, A&P etc etc, get a loaf of bread, couple tomatoes, some ham and cheese, maybe a lettuce if thats what you're into and viola, lunch, and what's more, depending on how much you get, you might even get two lunches out of it! Maybe even more

You would be correct, go directly past GO, collect as much money as the patients' HMO will cough and wash and re stock the truck

Yup

It's not 3rd degree block because of the absence of any P waves. 3rd degree block will still produce P waves but they will be disassociated. Here is another strip (tip: look in the chest leads, note how the QRS complex goes in different directions in the same lead) Thats very true.

Nope -- look at the ECG again

You are correct - it's PEA. Want to guess at what caused it?

No pulse but an orginized rhythm on the monitor. You got two IVs

This is what your ECG shows You put gramps on some O2 and find temp 36.5°C and BGL of 4mmol/L (or whatever normal is how you measure) Having done that, the old boy promptly falls out the chair and collapses to the ground unconscious.

Get well soon mate

You are dispatched to the home of a 60 yom who is looking after his 9yo grandson for the day. The grandson can't get grandpa up out of the recliner to play monopoly (my favorite game when I babysit my sister ) Grandpa is seated in his recliner in the lounge and complains of being "real tired"; he says that he does not want to cause any trouble and just needs to lay down for a bit BP 97/72 RR 22 shallow with equal rise and rales upon auscultation Pulse 110 and irregular GCS 12 SpO2 of 92% on RA (S) He is pale, cool, diaphoretic, confused and has that nasty grey sheen of death (A) None (M) Coumadin, nitro and a beta blocker (P) Had an MI about three years ago (L) Ate some eggs and toast for breakfast about three hours ago (E) Sat down to read the paper before playing with his grandson Now, the grandson really wants bust out the monoploy set and have you pack up and leave so .... whatcha gon' do?

Yeah I've seen that before; the whole series is really good:)

Technically maybe, but aren't cops supposed to handle this a little bit better? She got the @#*$ beaten out of her by being thrown around by her hair and punched in the head several times. Not cool .... not even cool when you consider we deal with people KO'd by bouncers and door staff who were being jagoff's and deserved getting smacked over. I mean hell I've felt like flipping out and going animal on some people who pissed me off but pffffffft, this was hardly appropriate.

Hi folks; I happened across this link (yes this one right here: http://tvnzondemand.co.nz/content/rapid_re...esponse_s1_ep3) which has on-demand (kinda like Hulu or oh blast, whats that other one, Fancast) episodes of a series called Rapid Response (better known down the station as "Training: Auckland style") that followed our Advanced Paramedics (EMT-Paramedics) around a couple of years ago. You may not be able to view these outside New Zealand (just like I can't view Fancast, blast!) but I can probably rip them and upload if you really want them but can't view them. It's a bit drivelous over over-glossed for primetime TV but isin't bad otherwise. FYI - R50 is require ALS, R40 is notify recieving hospital of condition and I think I heard R26 in there, that's require police Ben

Wow that is scary.

Did the education system fail or was E 911 with CLI (ANI ALI) not working that day?

So you are not a professional then; you don't take a professional attitude towards knoweldge, skill and practice? If somebody has a cardiac arrest you wouldn't check the drugs and joules and do a proper survery you'd be unprofessional is that what you are saying? Although we may not have the same training as a nurse or a doctor they are no better than or worse than anybody in the emergency medical services. As far as I am concerned if you as a provider of medical care take your job seriously and are serious about your knowledgebase, skill use and continuing education then you are by all means, a medical professional. If you are not interested in a deeper, thoroigh understanding of why your protocols exist and simply know to do A then B and perhaps C incase of D you are not a professional. Now I admit I am by no means the most knowledgable or the most highly certified EMSer out there; but I do take serioisly my quest to learn and understand the anatomy, physiology and/or pharmacology of my protocols; why they exist, what they will do/not do and what to expect when it happens so I am not simply restricted to "do this, then this, oh, then do that". If you think that way then foreshame on your limited scope of thinking. As far as the LACoFD is concerned; I am no expert but from what I have heard I'd place them somewhere near the same grouping as the "cookbook" medics who know how to follow a protocol only.

Thats funny

We used to have a class E license for an ambulance (which equates to a chauffers lic - same as a taxi) but since we got our new license system its covered as a "special" vehicle under the standard driver license since an ambulance is < 4.5 metric ton (4500kg) Each service does have an in house EVOC certification course Fire needs either Class 2 ( > 4.5 metric ton two axle) or Class 4 ( > 4.5 metric ton & > two axle) depending on which truck they drive.

It was Roy and "five other guys" so Johnny is # 6

4 or 5 I am not sure, whenever Rescue 911 came out How old were you when you stopped ordering the Happy Meal at Mickey Infarcts?

I think thats all you ever do

.... you're just wondering how he got hold of your plan there terr

Its just not a good idea.

Joseph Goebbels would be proud!

Although he went to the dark side and became [a] JAFA one must not forget Scottys OSJC heritage. Therefore, I'm going to spare one nut