BushyFromOz

Entonox is good, it works quite well, and its something I got morph for adults and penthrane for adults and kids. We sould have IN fentanyl for both groups in the first half of next year Who is the BLS'er with pain meds, what have you got mate??

Sorry for the hijack, got a new thread on it with a **cough** poll **cough**

I was just stunned to hear that there are paramedics in the US of A that do not have pain releif options available to them, so, for my own amusement and education (well sorta) thought id post one fo those polls thingies. Its primarily aimed at ALS and ILS not for any reason other than from what i garnish of these forums there seems to be bugger all that EMT B's have available to them. If your a foreigner try and equate our skill set to the US system, when i vote, ill be as an ILS provider Please include a post of what you carry (aspirin doesn't count) Cheers

Spen, that made me feel physically sick what your friend went through. I remember when i fractured my R tib and tore all the miniscal cartiledge out of my knee, the swelling was pushing on one of the nerves in my leg - it was excrutiating. They gave me 10mg of morph and it did nothing for me. I said to the ambo's "if i hit you and act aggressive, will you midaz me?" The guy looked at me and siad "well you are a bit agitated" 5mg IM and was suddenly at peace with the world Point is if they didn't have options then i would have been one unhappy punter, how does the public let this happen?? :?

Dude, even our first responders have pain relief here :shock: Wow, almost a reason not to visit yankeeland :?

You serious?? There places i yakee land where ambo's provide NO pain relief?? thats just inhumane

Im told that Taswegians are proof south australians can swim ACP??? Sheambo, you must be a banana bender?

Sorry, legal drinking age is 18, but if provided to by their parent or legal guardian then technically speaking it is legal, generally not socially exceptable but legal. Not sure about cigarettes though

Why should them being a "real cowboy" change my approach to treatment?? I dont let things slide because they are real live tough cowboys who should be i ICU because they can handle injuries normal people can't (gag). They get the same approach to treatment anyone else does "real cowboy" or not. If they are too meat headed to listen then thats their own perogative. Back to tim, you cant help stupid people matey, the only thing i can suggest that if you guys choose to cover the event again then do so only on the requirements that you have a meeting before the event laying down your requirements for providing good medical care/first aid and if they dont want to play by your rules then dont go - its not worth the risk. I know for a fact they cant ride without someone there (they tried to book us for free on friday morning and we wouldn't do it) so either they play by your rules or they dont play at all.

massive shortage. recruitment targets are 400 in 2 years

no offence bro, but what they do for their bread doesn't change my treatment. treating hem diferently is asking to make a stuff up. if they want to refuse treatment thats fine, but after i do my job. no matter how "tough" these "real men" are, i bet they'll have no quamls about suing anyone who treats them "differently" and misses an injury.

no money in it bro, all the good guys went to canada or the US. I don think this was national comp though, it was an amateur.

Yeah i dont have any education in 12 leads, only what i have picked up myself. ST elevation in Ld II, III and aVF would tell me that there is an occlusion of a distal part of the left anterior descending arter. INferior AMI's have have a 45% to 55% (depending on what your reading) involvement of the righ ventricle. reducing preload any further and its reduction in ventricular stretch, reduction in left atrial and then left ventricular filling, you might not get enough left ventricular pressure on systole to open your aortic valve. ST depression in V3,4,5 and 6 would indicate some posterior involvement, diagnoal branchs of the left circumflex? You could move V1,2 and 3 and run a another 12 lead, re-labelling them for a 15 lead to get the posterior view. Looked like a 1st degree block too. Have o experience of fibrinolytic, but if the pt qualifies for it i'd give it, sounds like a hell of a long time to difinitve treatment for a STEMI. As for the pain redcutionfrom increased B/P, i dont really know, im at the limit of my brains right now, had a terrible day at work :? Feel free to correct me

GTN for an inferiorm AMI??? :?

Yeah, i reckon that it's pretty obvious that something medical is on the cards.

There was a case not 3 weeks ago here where some [police shot a crazed 15 y/o who was threatening them with some knives. Given the option of shooting or getting in close with a batton, they shot him (capsicum spray did not work on this nut case) Of course the arm chair generals out there were very quick to say that tasers are not the answer "police training is", they were branded trigger happy and everything else under the sun. Was even said that tasers kill almost as many people as fire arms. I know which one id rather get shot with.

Yeah, its a good thought allright, pity it oozes hypocrisy

I want to see how many more people fake their own deaths this year only to be miraculously saved like that guy a few years ago, what was his name, he wore the loin cloth and sandals??? Wasn't his name jeebers or something.............

Not one of ours but ours are exactly the same with exception of the markings.

As usual wendy has posted a gem to behold! I wish i could write as eloquently as that! :wink:

ihave this little electronic thing i bought f a joke shop, it has a light sensor in it and when its placed in a dark room it plays the sound of a mosquito flying around, so i but that in one of the bedroom at work one night, and found my partner asleep on the lounge the next morning, said there was a mozzie the size of a jumbo jet i there but he could't find the bastard

Looks like you need a bit of lecturing to me.... Your poll is designed to be devisive and prove your factual opinion that racism does exist in EMS, but it does not point out hat racism is not exclusive to ems, has higher or lower rates in ems. In fact, by your poll, australian EMS is as racist as it gets, and im a racist as it gets. Do i hate the color of your skin? NO!! ive never even met an african american! And yeah, it is a bit like a TV show, plenty of shows you just flick it over, but every now and then you come across something like, oh i dont know, Jery Springer, and despite it being trash TV, there is one "guest" making such an ass out of themselves you cant help but watch.

"Your people", what, is dtrick some kind of alien species?? And you do know that "crotchies" is a slang name for pubic lice right??