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That's a cool looking ambo! What chassie is it on? Also, how many patients can it hold?

No...I don't know/haven't seen it. From the crashes around here...the cot's the safest place.

Color? Seems like she's able to speak in full sentences...(please let me know if I'm mistaken). What are the meds? My guess is a PE again.

Not a bad idea, but there are some providers who can't push Fentanyl...For instance in Arizona medic's can't push Fentanyl, only morphine. At which point I would expect I would need to push a higher dose.

I've got very mixed feelings on these...when used in an appropriate manner, they can be beneficial. However, from personal experience, they can get HORRIBLY annoying! It's not from lack of care/delay of care/not knowing the game plan, etc. All I've ever seen them used for is "are the test results back" or "when are XYZ going to get called" etc., of course this is after I have explained to them several times that it takes about an hour to get the results back (they usually ask every 15 minutes, or so it seems). Anyway, to get back on track, from the EMS perspective...I will approach each report of the "SI" as possibly dangerous, until proven otherwise. Will I be rude and judgemental? NO! Totally uncalled for! There is a huge difference between a person who is a "cutter," and a person who is "SI" and is non-violent, to the suicidal person who...well, wants to die and doesn't care who they hurt/take out in the process. So...until proven otherwise, I will always approach with an appropriate amount of trepidation.

Now granted, I've been skipping around on this thread, but I would hope that this "arresting" patient wasn't a "surprise" arrest...in that the extreme majority of the time, anyone who codes in back should have been expected to possibly code, thus having all the "toys" at the ready. Now...there is the very rare times when an otherwise healthy patient codes on you in back (acute onset MI--the "big one--, etc.). But, I would start the code...defib if called for, if not, establish an airway, IV's etc., and maybe 1st round of drugs walking down the hallway. Oh...and contact the hospital in some fashion just to let them know the patient just "crumped."

Speaking of KKK outfits and what not...you have to wonder-does the thread count increase as you progress in rank? :shock:

"Funny, she doesn't look Druish..." Barf, "Spaceballs" Edited for spelling

Gordon Ramsey is the MAN! I also like the standard list: COPS Trauma: Life in the ER (only reruns now) Paramedics (again, only reruns now) Untold Stories of the ER The Academy Hell's Kitchen (OK, not one I regularly watch) Kitchen Nightmares Nanny 911 (good comic relief now and again)

Sounds like a fair trade, we send you guys our MRSA spiders, and you send us TB patients...

Oh sure...blame the sun worshipers...

Right now, Norther Arizona University has an online BS degree in Health Science-Paramedicine. Most of the classes (I'm currently enrolled in it) are based upon community medicine and out reach type subjects and not "street medicine." Not complaining, good knowledge, just different from what I'm used to.

AK, I agree...that's crap. The difference between a cell phone and a locker on school grounds is...frankly the locker is school property. The phone isn't, and I'm not sure how the cops are able to admit that as evidence, as the original "act" (use of the cell phone) only breaks school rules, vs the law...where is the probable cause for search? Even more so if they are a minor? I don't see it panning out successfully for anyone but the teens. Although...it should not excuse the act, but I'm thinking it's a stretch for a "high" level of crime as child porn.

He should come to Maricopa County...I know a Sheriff he'd love to meet! Gotta love Joe Arpio!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Here is something else to think about...glucagon (intended for use when you can't get an IV--to be used as a stop-gap), but keep in mind that it is also a smooth muscle relaxant...which means, if at first you can't get the IV, give it, and if pt's still down for the count...look again for an IV...you will probably find something that wasn't there...

When dealing with these shows...how can you not be

For us, the drugs expire on the last day of the month and year listed. We switch them at the hospital (we purchase our own, but have an agreement with them to switch them out, as they inevitably use them quicker than we do) 2 months before listed expiration date. On the drugs that require refrigeration, we write OOF (out of fridge) on the bottle the day we take it out (with that days date), and they expire 14 days from that date.

Na...they just like the feel of the high end Victor's Secret Mansier...

Wow. They are good! :twisted:

Other important question...does the Pt smoke? With the BC, my first thought would be a PE...would explain the giddiness (hypoxia) and SOB.

As long as that area isn't part of the U.S., there's no application of HIPAA. Although I would assume that they have their own laws governing release of information. Specifically about the articles, I don't think they presented a HIPAA issue (even if it occurred in the U.S.). Reason being, there really was not much information that had not ALREADY been in the public domain. Now, I'm not saying talking to the press about a patient (even in limited detail) is good form, but I didn't think there was any additional info that wasn't already played out through main stream news media.

Ok...so here's the follow up...he was placed on a hard tele floor, literally across the hall from the cardiac ICU (which is STILL where I think he should have gone...). He was brought up there a couple of hours after I got off shift, and died from the progression of the MI within 16 hours.

I am anti-abortion except in cases of rape, incest or severe risk to the mother's health as well. This opinion has nothing to do with religion, as opposed to the fact that I'm adopted, my son is adopted, my sister is adopted...so we all could have been that life... Death penalty...I'm very conflicted. I'm all for putting chlorine in the gene pool, but by that same token, I am tasked with a job (I readily accepted) to SAVE lives... :? Youth in asia...make them speak English :twisted: Actually, as long as you are an adult, I really don't have an issue with you taking your own life...ESPECIALLY in the areas where one might befriend the good Dr. Kavorkian.

Well, if it's a tradtional FD thing...they probably cook well...