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^ Wow...

When a physician RSIs someone, does that chart get QA'd?

Here you must come to a full and complete stop at all intersections with a stop sign or red light and then proceed through only when it is safe to do so.

Nice looking kits. I know that it's a bit much to ask but I wish there was more fluid. I know an ER doc who is from Russia, he was going home to visit family and out in the middle of the ocean he ended up dealing with a guy in cardiogenic shock. Problem was he didn't have enough fluid available to properly manage the guy. He set up an Epi drip but that only lasted so long. He said it was a tough decision but in the end he decided to use distilled water and dilute the D50 with it so he could continue to keep this guy's pressure up. They could deal with the potential infection but not the lack of a pulse when his pressure bottoms out! I don't know if I would have thought of that.... or risked it.

Does anyone know what it is that comes "standard" in an airline med kit? I know they have glucagon and Epi (from stories told to me by docs who have had to treat on planes) but what else?

I'm not trying to be argumentative or a $*%@ disturber but isn't what you deleted exactly the topic? The topic is if BLS services are beneficial. The discussion was going toward the direction that no they are not and that in fact they should not exist except as first response agencies only. I fail to see how that was going off topic?

I agree with Dust, you should get V/S before you initiate any treatment. The ONLY exception I can possibly think of for this is a patient in severe anaphylaxis. I may not wait for a full set of V/S plus monitor before giving them Epi.

At the PCP level: Trauma bag, drug kit, Monitor, O2 bag on every call. Other equipment as indicated by call info.

Does anyone carry pumps small enough that you routinely bring them into a house? For example for that post-arrest dopamine drip you get going in the house?

So in your view then what WILL the roll of the ORNGE truck be? Or will it basically be a flop in your area due to the existing CCTU and this new program?

vs-eh? Isn't this what the new ORNGE trucks coming out are supposed to be for?

An ALS class that is one semester long? Almost makes me regret taking 7 times longer and still not being able to do as many 'skills'.

JUST tuition and NO other expense at all (not even books) and before taxes PCP: 2 years (4 semesters) ~$4040CDN ACP: 1 year (3 semesters) ~$9000CDN So to get to the ALS level is costing me in tuition alone $13040CDN before taxes and the equivalent of 3 and a half years. Factor in all of my other spendings and I almost guarantee that I am spending over 30k

"Dispatch, can you send a flatbed to this location? We need to move this vehicle south before we extricate the victim."

My common line is "I'm afraid we're going to have to amputate at the neck" They give me a confused look for a second then get it

Ah, so he disproves something and you roll your eyes at it? Why? Because it hurt your feelings?

Well played Brent, well played

Everything is correct except this part. He explicitly FORBID them from initiating treatment but they did it anyway and he was pissed off about it until he cam to realize that by doing that the in fact saved a life which swayed his opinion about the paramedic program. Initially he had been against the idea.

I have a tiny Ontario Paramedic Association decal in my back left window that is really only visible to an officer walking up to my car

Why Narcan? Of all the drugs it is not something that would be at the top of my list..... just ventilate them well

Where do they get the idea that 90% of EMS is linked with Fire? I find that hard to believe

Talking to a local pharmacist may be a good bet.

In my IFT job I say to the patient "Hi, my name is Alex and I'll be your chauffeur for this afternoon. This is XXXX and they will be your in flight attendant"

I proved nothing. You are posting FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GETTING A NEGATIVE REACTION by your own admission. This has NOTHING to do with what you are posting about, I could care less about that at this point. It's the fact that you're a shit disturber that I'm taking issue with.

So you admit to making a post for the sole purpose of causing trouble? That is the definition of trolling and has been reported as such. Please note that this is not a comment about what you said, but the reason you said it.