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The only one we'll be looking to adopt out is the first one, once he goes through his heartworm treatment.

The second one has a home. She was just getting spayed. But I thought she was entirely way too cute. :p
 
lightsandsirens5

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Linuss said:
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First CPR.
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First as in first as a medic? Or first in general?

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And...............it is snowing. Last snow we got here was sometime in early January. I mean, usually we have tons of snow here, six to ten feet last year, but with the crazy mild winter we have had it would have been nice to just go right into spring. Just watch, next year we will be getting our usual 8 feet plus the other 7.5 that didn't fall this year.:wacko:
 
RescueYou

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Medic744 said:
Either way it still ends up smelling up the back of the truck. And boots, and pants, and stretcher, and anything it ends up encountering.
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Oh it's even better when you get to clean it up while it's inside of your boots and shirt.
 
lightsandsirens5

lightsandsirens5

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Linuss said:
Both. First as lead medic and first ever.
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Wow. Are you serious? I have had to work at least 7 or 8 in the past year and a half. And with no ALS available for most of them. I would have thought that with a service as busy as yours you would have had lots more. Maybe less Texas folks kick over from cardiac arrest than Washington folks.

btw, what was the outcome?
 
Shishkabob

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lightsandsirens5 said:
Wow. Are you serious? I have had to work at least 7 or 8 in the past year and a half. And with no ALS available for most of them. I would have thought that with a service as busy as yours you would have had lots more. Maybe less Texas folks kick over from cardiac arrest than Washington folks.

btw, what was the outcome?
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You'd think I'd get more being in the DFW Metroplex, but my white cloud is fierce in it's resolution of no bad calls.

We get on scene and the 'nurses' are doing their own style of 'CPR' by pushing on the xiphoid process...yea, I had the same look on my face that you have now too.

51yo male. Asystole on arrival. I started an IO on the right tibia, good compliance with an OPA and BVM. Couldnt attempt an advanced airway because the guy literally had holes in his neck exposing his trachea (hx of throat cancer)A few rounds of ACLS meds and 30min of CPR, never changed from asystole (so no shocks). We get to the ER (we weren't able to call on scene) and after a quick report to the doc they call it.




I've always been worried on what I would do on my first code, if I would freeze or not. The call just flowed smoothly and I didn't even have to think about my next move.
 
8jimi8

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Nice work Brother. Yah... treating dead people... not to bad of a way to break yourself in.


I once worked a code with another new grad from the surgical ICU.

If you can imagine he doing a chest pass with a basketball... that was his technique for CPR. Quick horrendously choppy thrusts that emanated from his bent elbows.

On facebook he commented on my posting, noting how sore his triceps and shoulders were the next day, asking me if mine were sore too.

I sent him a private message explaining that his CPR was subpar. He never responded lol.

I go back to my earlier statement... i can't remember if it was this site, or allnurses.com

EVERY nurse should take an EMT-B class. This isn't WHERE i learned good cpr, but it was EMPHASIZED over and over and over. I just thought it was second nature to lock your arms out and use your bodyweight to compress...

more and more i hear stories of nurses who don't know how to do cpr. pretty pretty pretty sad.
 
emt_angel25

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life is good........at this point i dont think my week can get any better!!! oh wait a nice night at work friday would be great! have a WONDERFUL day everyone!!!
 
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If you work on an ALS ambulance and are needing help from another ALS ambulance, don't expect us to be at the meeting spot 1 minute after you call, when the meeting spot is 5 minutes away. When you don't see us there, just blow on by and don't worry about us, we'll keep looking for you for about 15 minutes until our wonderful dispatchers finally think its a good idea to call your dispatch back. Of course if our dispatcher would have just told us where to go instead of spending 3 minutes trying to find out our exact location we probably good have made it.
 
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8jimi8

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ollie said:
anyone hungry im making green chilie enchiladas come over im making extra :) yummy in my tummy lol
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soyriso and two eggs has been lasting me alll day
 
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just put a garlic bread pepperoni pizza in the oven.. now thats yummy yummy in my tummy tummy
 
lightsandsirens5

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life is good........at this point i dont think my week can get any better!!! oh wait a nice night at work friday would be great! have a WONDERFUL day everyone!!!
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I'm glad for you. However, my day just went all to heck, I just went to get the mail and received a notice that my application had been turned down by the Pacific Northwest Interagency Incident Medical Specialist program. There goes my summer job................................:angry:

I could cry.
 
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