Blankets

[DwayneEMTP]

We've got the disposable 'space blankets' here. I've no idea if they're any good for heat, but I tried one and then, showing my lack of morals and ethics, stole a couple of heavy cotton blankets from the supply here...

I think that often the weight of the blanket is as/more important than it's insulation value. I think that injured or ill people just feel protected under a heavier blanket. Do you think?

I think so anyway...though, as with parachutes, I have no data to back it up... :-)

[scubanurse]

I agree with heavy blankets helping. There have been a few studies showing heavy pressure across the chest/mid-section can reduce anxiety so I think there's something to it. I'm just too tired right now to look up that research.

[miscusi]

Or you can just steal them, I mean it's not like there's any ethics involved or not like it's on the same caliber as cheating or anything like that.

Seriously ? you are asking for trouble. what kind of reply is this ? what are you trying to accomplish ? if you really have something to ask me that is off topic like this, just send a PM or something, why are you publicly trying to get a reaction from someone you don't know over the internet ?

[DwayneEMTP]

Miscusi, I'm pretty sure that the quoted post was tongue in cheek referencing another thread, not in relation to yours.

Easy Brother...no one is baiting you...

[Just Plain Ruff]

Seriously ? you are asking for trouble. what kind of reply is this ? what are you trying to accomplish ? if you really have something to ask me that is off topic like this, just send a PM or something, why are you publicly trying to get a reaction from someone you don't know over the internet ?

Actually, where I worked, many of the services who came in to our ER would only bring patients to us once or twice a year. They would clean us out of blankets. When confronted they said that since they brought us a patient that they were entitled to take whatever amount of blankets that they wanted to. I took off at least one of their trucks 25 blankets that had our hospital logo on it. These services were the same ones who would bring us a patient from 200 miles away on one of our hospital EMS systems backboards or splints. So yes, stealing them was not an issue in their eyes.

And Miscusi, PM sent.

[triemal04]

Miscusi, I'm pretty sure that the quoted post was tongue in cheek referencing another thread, not in relation to yours.

Easy Brother...no one is baiting you...

Actually...yeah, that's exactly what's going on.

[Just Plain Ruff]

Actually...yeah, that's exactly what's going on.

Yeah but with a gibbs slap to the head courtesy of Triemal, I stopped.

My last post was not focused towards anyone in particular.

[spenac]

Yeah but with a gibbs slap to the head courtesy of Triemal, I stopped.

My last post was not focused towards anyone in particular.

Darn probies gotta learn.

[aquamed]

We have been looking at some micro fleece blankets that we can buy from $1.49 - $3.00 each. Possibly labeling or embroidering them with a message: " Courtesy of ...." And just leave them with the patient as a gift/advertising/ PR gimmick.

[scubanurse]

Chances are they will be left at the hospital though and thrown away/added to the hospital supply...