traumaluv2011
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I know my squad has one, but one of the members that was on the squad for two years said that we've never used it. He said some of the county paramedics use it, some don't. They all are provided one and based out of the hospitals (so there are like 10 units).
My book talks about using them, but I haven't seen them ever used. It talks about two specific modeal, the Thumper and the Auto-Pulse, but I'm sure there are more. I think the reason that nobody uses them is it takes like a minute to set up a patient on them. And if they are under cardiac arrest, you aren't going to want to stop CPR any longer than 20 seconds.
Does anybody ever use these?
My book talks about using them, but I haven't seen them ever used. It talks about two specific modeal, the Thumper and the Auto-Pulse, but I'm sure there are more. I think the reason that nobody uses them is it takes like a minute to set up a patient on them. And if they are under cardiac arrest, you aren't going to want to stop CPR any longer than 20 seconds.
Does anybody ever use these?