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So my doctor says if I keep eating dollar menu chicken burgers I am going to die of cardiovascular disease

And apparently should I keep eating giant value chocolate chunk cookies I am going to get diabetes

Perhaps it's time I found a new doctor? :D

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Probably, because your doctor sounds like a quack. Maybe you should see a chiropractor.

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For patients with tachydysrhythmia who are significantly compromised the treatment of choice should be cardioversion particularly if the rhythm is thought to VT

"Significant" is subjective but requires more than "a bit of chest tightness or SOB" - basically think patients who are cardiogenically shocked or going to end up that way, so the small, elderly or other patients with limited physiological reserve

Now sedation is a bit of a funny issue, in the hospital here the choice is midaz or propofol. In the pre hospital environment here we have midaz, fentanyl and ketamine. My personal preference is for IV midazolam and top it off with a bit of ketamine

Paramedic Officers can give some IV or IN fentanyl then cardiovert now, for years (like nearly twenty years) they could cardiovert but not give analgesia but my take on that is if you are that bloody crook you need cardioverthing you wont mind a bit of pain for some extra years of life

I do not think there is a role for prehospital blockers be they calcium, beta, sodium or otherwise; there may be a small role for beta blockers for MI patients but I am not familiar with the literature suggesting improved survival but I do believe some exists

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Kiwi, I think you are in the wrong thread. Cut back on the Valiumz.

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but but but teh valiumz are Kiwi's little helper ... just like you and that hip flash in your lab coat pocket

Yes, Ruff told me

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So one of my pilot colleagues is staying at the Comfort Inn in Ann Arbor for the next couple days

I told him if he is looking for a good time to drive over over to Hooters in GRR

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You can't exactly just drive over here from Ann Arbor and the Hooters is closed. This place is becoming even more unbearable that it already was. I happen to know someone who is a pilot for JetBlue who is originally from NZ.

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That is far out choice bro no ghost chups required now can offer direct Traverse City, tango victor charlie, then direct Waterloo um, yankee wiskey tango, call Toronto Centre one two five point eight seven, so long

I am anal I don't use the navaid names I generally always use the identifiers especially from working internationally in places like Japan you will get names you do not know how to pronounce infact when I was reviewing documentation for Northwest (well, Delta now) it said to not attempt pronunciation and use the identifier.

Once you get east of Poland and start needing to use a feet to metres conversion chart things get a little hairy ....

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