FireMedic65

For the love of pancakes... what is so wrong with advancement?

we get enough bad media... we don't need more

link to article please

Hmmmm, resources from numerous google results for salary and wages say SoCal paramedics make no more than $60,000. Try again!

Don't you just love it how people bash their own profession and are totally against it's advancement? *rolls eyes*

ch, he lives in CA. It would be one hell of a house call.. if he didn't bleed out by the time I got there. Would like to learn though just for the hell of it.

a friend of mine actually. broke his wrist and asked me how they remove casts. I told him how and he said he had a dremel and would be right back. Roughly 10 minutes later "dude... I think I need stitches...." thankfully, I didn't tell him about skin staples too..

Agreed, they are great. With the proper attachment, they are great for cast removal as well.

probably

don't forget the blow torch

Nah, you are good. The person doing the procedure was still highly medically trained. Sure, anyone can pick up a drill and start poking at a persons skull, but this Doc knew what he was doing.

When I am driving and can't see well due to sun being in my eyes... I generally slow down...

Very cool. It's nice to see there are still health care providers will to think outside the box and use what tools they have at hand.

If you would have read what I posted, you would see that I mistook the iodine and the contrast. I was informed and I fixed what I had said in a later post. You also, confirmed what I has said. I said IT COULD. The information about an amount also wasn't said. The only mention was there was "a huge bubble and huge infiltration". My info later came direct from the article I posted. I read the same in other resources but didn't cite them. No need to spam 20 sites all saying the same thing. I will continue to post on what topic I feel like, and give my opinion as I see fit and wish. If you don't approve of it, too bad. Deal with it, get over yourself. Further more, even if I were wrong, which I was not, that is the point of having a discussion forum is it not? Not everyone can be all knowing and great as you are and know everything. If you have nothing nice to say, you shouldn't post either. Cheers!

why does everyone want the easy way and the short track to becoming a health care provider? It's not like you are learning to bake cakes or program computer software. You are saving lives essentially. Getting the most education and the most experience should be what you want to do.

Yes, welcome to real life. NR wasn't just thrown together in a weekend by a couple of pranksters looking to piss everyone off. One simple mistake happens, you fail.. yes. What happens in real life if you forget one simple mistake? EMS is problem solving, critical thinking, helping people, etc etc. In the perfect world, you will walk into a scene with the patient supine, calm and answering every question with the best info possible. Sadly, we do not live in the perfect world. We have to be detectives, drudge through piles of firth, work in cramped spaces, deal with horrible smells, frantic people, screaming people, rude people.. pretty much everything gets thrown at us. If you ask me, NR is a cake walk compared to the real world. This reflects the practical portion. The written is a whole different story.

I will ask my friend who deal with this sort of thing. For home use, I don't think anyone requires you to have a sprinkler system. Even so, I don't see why you would need monitoring to have it installed unless you are running a business.

maybe I should have put this in the "humor" section

see, who needs google when you have ch? Always good info from him.

It is the NR policy not to tell the people testing why they had failed. If you are telling these students this, you could get yourself and the program in huge trouble. Reasoning why, in my opinion why you are not told, is to make you THINK. "Damn, what did I do wrong? What did I miss?" You don't know, so now what? You go back and STUDY EVERYTHING AND GO OVER IT ALL! If you forgot to check a lead after a rhythm change, why should you be told this? You should know better! If you aren't told, you wonder what you did wrong, and you go over the skill/station over and over and over, study the material, study the procedures, study the things that are bad, the things that are right. Telling a person what they do wrong doesn't help you in the long run. Sure, it would be nice to know, but not being told, forces the person to go back and study everything so when they are in the real world, they don't kill someone. by the way... it's pretty hard to fail a station if you pay attention and know what you are doing.

Oh right... my bad. In that case, try this article I found http://imaging-radiology-oncology-technolo...he-Patient.aspx

More than likely the IV had the good flash because it was in the vein, but when withdrawing the needle the catheter either when through the vein or came out. You had a good flash, but then couldn't draw blood. At first I was thinking it was positional or a collapsed vein, but then you were talking about infiltration, which leads me to believe my previous statement. Now for your question about the iodine being a problem with infiltration. My guess would be that it could cause some damage since it is a cleaning solution and has chemicals to kill bacteria. Warnings on the box say no for internal use. Most likely, depending on how much was there and not properly taken care of, could have some necrotic effects, and inflammation but don't quote me on that. It is a very interesting question and I would like to see a better answer than my own. I will look it up myself to see what I can find and report back if no one else does. As for you being liable, I don't believe so. You are a student and under direct supervision of the nursing staff. It would be on their ass in my opinion. When I was in clinical, I was not allowed to start an IV or draw labs without an RN or MD/DO with me, a lab tech didn't cut it. You are there for training and skills, and are under the supervision of the nurse. If they didn't see a "problem" that is their fault.

I guess next time you will stay up to date on your certification eh?

took them long enough!! bunch of idiots

http://www.firefighternation.com/forum/top...hters-nab-purse For once you see the good things people do, not the screw ups. The person who wrote the article on the other hand, sucks.