Vorenus

Why not teleportate him right from the fifth floor to the ER, then? Would save you the ride...

Same here. Watched it only after DFIB`s comment. Just wow! You`re amazing. I`d wish you would have been one of my teachers back in Para school! Actually - do you offer private sessions...?!

I never used an AED - had an instruction how to use one during para (RettAss) training though.... pretty useless, since it tells you everything, anyway. EDIT: As for the inventing part - am not really into IT-electronics and stuff. But I`ll gladly applaud anyone who`ll do it.

As said above, the vid is a bit older - but there`s not much you can do otherwise with an AED. It advises you not to touch the pat. while it analyses. Dunno if it is different with todays AEDs, but I doubt it.

Oh, just remembered: Band of Brothers (although I unfortunately never got to watch all episodes) and The Pacific. If this thread would also be about movies, I`d propbaly couldn`t stop writing for some hours - fortunately, it isn`t.

Is this only about shows airing right now? Then I`d say: Dexter (current season leads a bit downward, unfortunately), How I met your mother, NCIS, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, Sons of Anarchy... (couldn`t really prioritize, so without a real order). My most favorite shows though: Rome, Deadwood (a shame they didn`t put the story to a real end), The Sopranos, and some shows I can`t remember right now but I will add in future course.

Oh, that dude, for sure... don`t really know him, only his sister... but don`t tell him that!

Yeah, good job. Compressions did seemed to be a bit slow, but I`m too lazy to count right now. Surfboard would have been a good idea - but you can always point out things if you haven`t been in the one`s shoes. Would I have realized that there was a dude standing there with a solid surf-board? Propably not. In any case, sand might be easily swapped aside, but it`s a solid enough underground if not moving.

Well, if you won`t - I will. Can`t imagine that to be possible. There is, without a doubt, a certain group of patients that would/will benefit of a strict Load and go tactic without any treatment - there is however also a large group, that will benefit by initially treating life-saving conditions, on which they may not have survived the travel to the ER, or at least the outcome would have been worse. Problem is, only by a quick initial survey, you can determine which pt. is which.

We have a heated cupboard for our infusions as well, and I cover the pat. up after examining (not out of modesty, but for the hypothermia reason - I have to admit, that "modesty" or "privacy" are the least thoughts I have at an actual trauma site).

Cool, bro! I suck with those - they are so easy to overlook...

Man, what a progress in only three months!!

I dunno, Super-Firefighters? Firefighters 2.0? There`s gotta be an enhancement... isn`t there one for everything?

LOL! So what? I can tell you the patients ICP just by touching his head! EDIT: I`m working on EF by laying my hand on the thorax - but I still have a 20% failure rate there...

Just chill before the stress begins... Other than that - look up CPhT`s post.

Call dispatch and police, report the situation - as long as the other driver`s not injured/not severly injured, don`t delay transport.

Sorry bro, even from over the pond, I can`t really imagine something good coming out of any movement, that supports that Palin woman/where she has a certain influence.

Looks cool. Saw some pretty similiar stuff in vids of UK EMS. Definately a step in the right direction. I guess we won`t have to kill our backs that much anymore in the future.

Same here... we use it on a daily basis. Never really had to think about the orignial topic though, since we don`t have spineboards.

Yeah, a mix of of both is obviously best. I try to maintain that rountine: I do my physical assessment, do the anamnesia and stuff, while my partner is applying the monitoring on the patient (when I`m the senior/leading provider at scence). That way, when you`re through with your assessment and anamnesia, you`ll have everything you need to determine a possible therapy/treatment plan. This defers with certain groups of patients of course, still I think it`s not a bad concept. Although fairly new in this profession, too, I try to teach the bascis to trainees, too, when I have shifts with them. Most important thing is too get them to acknowledge the importance of a proper anamnesis. I`ve got some trainees who grabbed straightforward for the med package (I let them do most of the stuff mostly) - that`s when I unobstrusively ask them wether they have asked that and that question, to get them on the right path again.

Who do you mean?

Guess it depends on the company, too. When I`m at work with certain colleagues, I`m speaking the deepest middle-german accent. When speaking to someone unknown, more like formal german. Same with English - switiching between some kind of german influenced (guess I imagine it to be less than it really is ) british or american English.

I agree. Still, you`re argument that you`d have to learn by treating pt. without machines beforehand kinda wrong in my book. You have to learn to differenciate before hitting the streets autonmously, otherwise you`d decline those pt. the best treatment available.

Yes, I get that. I`d be interested though, when that accent started to build up/the background - when that certain manner of speach was associated with homosexuality.

Seriously always wondered about that "gay accent" thing - I mean, I get the concept, that you`re born that way, to like men over women and all - but you aren`t born with that accent, aren`t you? Guess that`s some kind of social-related thing, though I don`t really get the point. Maybe it`s a way of modern society gay people to stand on the point, that they can be openly gay nowadays. Because I can`t imagine, that it was common in elder times. EDIT: Just to clarify. The above comment is not intended to be insulting in any way.