Recent content by M1ke10191

Also, if push comes to shove about making the decision, medical control is your friend.

Heard this from a coworker interning with a medic responding to an arrest: BLS on scene - "He's leaning towards cardiac arrest." ALS responding to scene - "Well lean him the other way!"

It's an ALS assist skill in NY. Can't interpret them though.

Well med school is my goal (don't worry, I both work and volly as an EMT), so I'd be learning EKGs eventually, but I want to be able to look at the monitor and do something other than just stare blankly at it lol. Thanks for the info.

+1 The only thing I have ever bought for myself was a $50 Littman.

I'm at EMT-B and I was looking to learn more about EKG rhythms, preferably an online course or even just general info. To any other EMTs out there who learned how to read EKGs, how did you go about it? I've been talking to medics I ride with and learning a little online, but I feel like I'm only...

Kind of a pointless post but I just got my NY cert. WOOOOO!!

Well I just got home from my practicals (passed everything) and I made sure to ask the proctor if the pt's breathing was adequate. She said yes so i said OA + NRB. What none of us were expecting was for our trauma patients to wake up halfway through the assessment. I took out the airway and...

So all along my 2 month EMT class, during our trauma assessment we all verbalized placing a NRB after the OA was inserted to take care of the A and B of the ABCs. Yesterday one of the staff members told us if you're going to put in an OA you automatically would ventilate. I mean the patient is...

I looked at one of the EMTs books last night, the same one I was looking at online. It looks useful right now since I'm not even an EMT yet and I don't know the assessment steps like the back of my hand yet. I'm sure after a while it would collect dust though. Idk what I'll do.

Does anyone know a good field guide to get? You know, the spiral bound pocket sized things? I saw one on galls but I figured I'd ask around here just in case.

It would seem as such

Maybe I came off as vague. I don't mean not shaving for 2 weeks at a time, I mean having a trimmed goatee or thin beard.

I did a search but it didn't completely answer my question. I plan on working as an EMT once I become one. For now I work at McDonald's (I'm only 18 so it's all good lol) and I hate having to shave each shift. I don't mind keeping any hair trimmed, but is facial hair allowed? Is it on an agency...

For pulse and resp I do 15x4, and you can put their hand up to their chest to do pulse, then going right into respirations. Other than that idk how to make anything quicker.