Inthecity

I haven't posted here in over a year. Does anyone remember me?

What a tragedy

Not me but my husband is obsessed with Diablo which is a computer game

When I was given adenosine for svt it did not work. They pushed 6 mg the. 12 mg and the 12 again. Is it rare for it not to work 3 times?

My mom was saying that it would be quicker to just drive to the hospital then to wait for the ambulance to come all the way to her house and then back.I know this is all hypothetical and will most likely never happen but I do like to hear what you all say about it.

I just have a question about rattle snake bites if that is ok. Have you ever transported a patient with one? Do you always have to go to the hospital for the antivenin or do ambulances ever carry it ( I am doubting they do since I hear its hard to get sometimes). I ask this because today I was at my moms house. She lives an hour from the nearest hospital out in the country. I was playing with my 2 year old and 6 year old in the yard and my dad said ok there is a rattle snake right by you. I look down and seriously it is a foot from my son and I! And I was wearing flip flops and shorts! We move out of the way and no one gets bit but I was wondering what to do in case of a snake bit. Would you recommend my parents drive us the hour to the hospital or call 911 and wait for life flight to get there or the ambulance to get there. Almost seems if it were the ambulance driving it would take longer! Also do all hospitals carry antivenin and how long would symptoms of the snake bite show? It really freaked me out because my 2 year old and 6 year old were just so close to it.

About 3 years ago I was doing this dishes in a bra and thong panties. I slipped on some water and dislocated my patella. I was right by a phone and could have called 911 but because of what I was wearing or lack of what I was wearing I called my husband who was at the store and told him to come home asap! He helped me get a shirt and shorts on. Even though my knee hurt like hell all u could think of is need I get clothes on ! Good thing too because I knew one of the fireman who came. He was like " hey arn't too Reid's daughter??" yeah pretty embarrassing if they would have came and I had no clothes on

None. I just find it interesting and wanted to learn a bit.

Why is she not getting banned? I wouldnt believe a word out of her or HIS mouth ever again.

Wow I just read the 8 pages of lies, crazy stuff. I have pretty much no experience in medicine but none of it seemed at all believable to be. So will she get banned or are you allowed to troll on here?

When I had severe pre eclampsia it wasnt caught right away and turned into full blown HELLP syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellp_syndrome I dont know how many people in here have heard of that because it is pretty rare. The only cure is delivering the baby no matter how premature the baby is. I am not a medic but I do have experience with pre eclampsia and HELLP so I would get the patient to the hospital asap for delivery, My bp the day I delivered was 200/115. I had magnesium sulfate and an emergency c section. My daughter was only 5 weeks early luckily but it was still a horrible experience. Especially considering I developed sepsis and post partum pre eclampsia as well and was in ICU for 5 days.

I am not a paramedic but all of her symptoms sound so much like mine when I had pre eclampsia/HELLP syndrome. I was admitted to the hospital and given magnesium and labor was induced. When that failed I had an emergency c section.

It is very interesting to try and read the different perspectives (although I admit I have a hard time with some of the medical talk and lingo!). It seems many people would not give morphine for a patella dislocation? After I dislocated mine the firefighters came first. They said as soon as the paramedics came I would get some morphine. It took the paramedics about 10 more minutes to get there and I would have cried if I could not have received morphine when they arrived! Im pretty sure that the started an iv line and the morphine while they were still in my house. I would have thought that happened in the ambulance but I was SO happy to get the morphine. He gave me 4 doses and said by law that was the most he could give. He said there would be a wait for the orthopedic doctor to come in so he wanted to dose me up for the wait. He was nice

It will not let me put a picture in the avatar. Can anyone tell me how to do it? Thank you!

Yeah definitely no propofol for me. That would have been nice instead of suffering for like 1.5 hour between the time I dislocated it, got to the hospital and orthopedic finally came. The morphine did take the edge off though. So what is the difference between knee and patella? Patella is just the knee cap and the knee is the entire knee gets dislocated? And all this time I thought my knee was dislocated.