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No. If it was your family, you shouldn't be on the call. If its not your family, you have a job to do. You can't pass a call off because its gruesome, or because its too serious.

If you stop, I hope you have alot of money, after the lawsuits and unemployment you will need it. You are abandoning your paitent by stopping plain and simple. And not only that, you are also offering both paitents a decreased level of care. Top it off with placing the original patient possibly in harms way, and there is the Hat Trick. Use the radio, slow down open the window, and explain the situation to a bystander if you have to. Don't stop.

Touche.

Cowerin' Maurice Dregg

The pulse ox is good to confim what I feel for a pulse, on those hard to palpate pulses. I write that little precentage down on the PCR. Honestly though, I don't give alot of consideration to the precentage. If the paitent is breathing, and not blue, we are doing our job for the time.

I might buy one when I get back from vacation. With out all the goodys, the book alone is 20 dollars. I wish I could look at it in person. If I do go through with it, I will try and put a review up. I wasn't looking at the thigh holder, that just looks dumb and cumbersome. I guess with a good laminator and a binding machine, I could probably make the same thing.

Has anyone used this before? Does it clean up well? Is it practical for every day usage? I really don't like holding the big clunky clipboard for writing my notes on. I like the cheat sheet function, not to fall back on, but for organization purposes. Just wondering what the thoughts are. [web:e1855e4d6c]http://www.sammedical.com/Products/SAM-OnScene-Guide/[/web:e1855e4d6c] Oh, and yes, I want to bust out in a full sprint with it strapped to my leg.

That is actually one of the articles I read. Glad to see I wasn't shooting in the dark at least.

CNN was originally created as the "Chuck Norris Network" to update Americans with on-the-spot ass kicking in real-time.

Because dispatch makes up everything and doesn't listen to the caller, right?

You missed the part where I said "Is this something where time will make a difference" What type of trauma? There are lots of trauma. I explained my ideas on an MI. Pregnancy, unless it presents complications, can be handled in an ambulance. Great, if your neck of the world is perfect, come teach us a few things. I am more then welcome to your ideas, but not your belittling.

Rehab. Most policies I have seen say 2 bottles then rehab. You need to take a baseline set of vitals when they enter rehab. Make sure there is plenty of access to fluids and cooling/heating area. Diffrent people will take diffrent amounts of time to rehab up. Just remember, in the summer it is easy to overheat, and in the winter, it is easy to overcool. Read up on cyanide poisioning.

I have a hard time justifying emergent transports. What will the paitent recieve at the hospital, that you can not do? How soon does this paitent need this intervention? The only paitent I feel comfortable in transporting emergent, that I can justify readily, is a stroke paitent. Even then, at what point in the stroke window are we? I apologize again for taking your thread in an unintended direction fiznat. If this discussion continues we can move to a new thread.

Can we try the cincinnati stroke scale on her? I don't feel led in this direction, but I want to rule it out as well. I don't think the cataract is the sole cause. From some studying, I am leaning towards this being some sort of vascular incident. I don't have enough physiology background to really understand the specifics of what I have read however, and I don't want to try to play it off like I do.

No problem. Just a suggestion, for simple terminology and basic procedures, google them first. Read up about it. Then if you have further questions, ask about it. Nothing wrong with asking questions at all. But reading up on something first, can help with the explanations further on, and also makes your questions seem more substantial.

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What are the vital signs? Nuero exam? Is she oriented? What medical history and medications does she have?

Thank you dust. My mistake was having 2 similarly sized bottles on top of my dresser at the same time. The problem has been taken care of

Hahah Ok ok... I give up. I did it yesterday. No I didn't call an ambulance. 15 min of flushing, some screaming in pain, and its better. Still a little tender today. Laugh away EMTcity. Laugh away.

Called an eye doc. They said go to the ER. Girlfriend is unable to drive.

Dispatched to 22 yom. Found in his residence, flushing his eyes under a shower head with cold water. Girlfriend advises he put ear drops in his eyes instead of eye drops. Paitent is in obvious pain. Scene is safe.

Just curious. What prompted the priority transport? From what I can gather, the patient was on that fine line of stability? Not completely stable, but not exactly circling the drain? This is just a personal curiosity of mine. I know there are many factors to take into account with a priority response. If I have a suspected MI and we are loaded to meet the medic enroute, I won't run emergent to meet them. Some medics will hop on, and tell us to light er up. Others will run with traffic. I have read, and personally belive that a calmer response is probably better for the suspected cardiac that is conscious. Anyways. Sorry to take this on an unintended tangent, just a curiosity.

Just don't get a jack-ass dispatcher that sends you on every call they can dream up. Yeah thats right, people don't really call for help. Dispatchers dream them up.

Kyle, when you get your EMT and turn 18, come up here to my service. You live in a border county, so you are eligible. I'll teach you how to drive an ambulance. And you won't die!

Any sign of un/intentional overdose? I would attempt an NPA if the pt would tolerate it. Considering assisting respirations if they are too shallow, or any slower. I am still drawn to the consuming of pain patches. And signs of trauma to the anterior? At this point I would be loading her, and checking on the status of ALS. Looks like I am out of the game now.