Story Time!!

[EMS-Cat]

Sorry 'bout that. squint. :oops:

I got a smell I want to dodge, I'll use either Mentholatum or tincture of benzoin. Neither smells like a food stuff and both are fairly easy to get/keep in the box or rig. A dab of Mentholatum on my upper lip or a dab or spray of benzoin on the inside of a mask [a trick taught to me by an old time anesthesiologist].

I've had some *really* bad memories of the one time I tried to use peppermint extract and had to dodge mints for a year or so.

Rowan

[bandaidpatrol]

Borg? :?:

Nope, it was a McKesson Inhalator-Resuscitator-Aspirator

[Guest]

The Borg...Star Trek deal a group of aliens with a linked consciousness, that consumed every thing that they could find. Thank your lucky Stars the that the crew of the enterprise saved the universe again, Whew.

McKesson Inhalator-Resuscitator-Aspirator cool but cant find it on the Internet, maybe we need a stone tablet link. te he.

EMS cat...didn't your nose stick together with tincture of benzoin??? oh OK not IN your nose.... what was I thinking?

I love the smell of it "Fryers Balsam" used it to prep neonates before securing the tube works great but hard coming off use a liquid plastic skin prep these days, gets all over you gloves, sometimes the old ways are the best, never heard of an allergy to tincture of benzoin.

[Ridryder 911]

OMG I remember those damn suction units !... We had one that had the suction cannister unit that held about 15 cc of emesis...

Be safe,

R/R 911

[Nate]

I think some patients may take offense to my spraying deodorizer on them. It's probably best to stick with vapo rub during the call, then spray everything down afterwards. :wink:

Oh I don't usually have to worry about telling them they stink, PD or the hospital is more than happy to thell them that.

[Guest]

I almost puked on my first GI bleed call. It was that great smell that almost got me!!

[bandaidpatrol]

Thanks to my son for getting a picture of it online. Funny. I can scan it, email it, and see it, but not get a url address for it. And I thought I was technology-friendly.

[bandaidpatrol]

That right there is the aspirator collector. It is actually a "paste" jar. Remember that glue that smelled like pepperment they probably gave to you in Kindergarden? The jar was just a little bigger than a jar of gerber baby food. Fit perfectly, which was great, because they broke so easily.

[Heavensfireeyes]

I have came close a couple of times. I have a really good stomach but you cough something up and expect me to catch it in a tissue I am going to GAG. The other thing is smell in houses, My partner teased me to the point of almost puking in the truck ...But i didnt I waited until we got back to the station. SOmething about stepping in dog poop and unrine that can get me.