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    Help a new AEMT with some beginner questions

    Yeah...you can straight up bolus 100 mcgs of fentanyl in most adults not even having pain and all that will happen is their becoming stoned and maybe barf.
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    How do EMTs mentally process difficult calls after a shift?

    come up with an EMDR app an you'll have something....
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    9-1-1 and/versus Critical Care

    For the purposes of CCT, 'critical care' is initiated in the hospital, parameters for management are set there and the patient isn't going to get any more stable during transport. A 911 call is not that. Presumably, when a critical patient is being transferred, he's been the subject of a...
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    9-1-1 and/versus Critical Care

    IV pumps/portable vents nowadays are so compact and user friendly, any service with a 30 minute (or so) travel time to the hospital prolly has them, or should....not an either/or thing...
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    There's a reason Badge 502 is so accurate

    ‘Emergency surgery was carried out, and the object was found to be an artillery shell dating back to the First World War. ‘Worse still, it had not, exploded, ... what's 'worse still' about it not having exploded?
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    100% Directionless Thread

    ...therapy animal...get a vest online...they won't touch you...
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    Cutting the Cord: Scalpel or Shears?

    Definitely a position someone could take..
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    Cutting the Cord: Scalpel or Shears?

    I've seen surgeons cut the baby more than once with a scalpel doing that exact thing.
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    Cutting the Cord: Scalpel or Shears?

    IMHO, using a scalpel is just dangerous and really inefficient...the pro's that do it all the time just use the scissors. Don't know why these kits even have scalpels, just asking for trouble in the pre-hospital chaotic environment.
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    Air embolism questions

    Just 'cause I geek out at this kind of thing...a defect in the septum between the right and left atria is not uncommon. Some estimates say that there is a 25 % incidence of this but after looking at thousands of echocardiograms, I don't believe it's that high, at least not significant ones. The...
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    A Beautiful song about EMS Flight Crews, I am so inspired by you guys!!!!!

    Medals all around...
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    Hospital discharges woman who gave birth in car minutes later

    Involvement could be a phone call from the triage nurse with a verbal order to discharge. But in the end, like every other generic media take on medical decision making, there is more to this story. Precipitous deliveries happen in first time pregnancies (albeit uncommon) let in alone...
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    Hospital discharges woman who gave birth in car minutes later

    Healthy baby? Stuff happens... and she didn't get an L and D bill. Win.
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    Minnesota postal worker dies in county lockup after police mistake stroke for intoxication

    well...I stand corrected...
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    GA LEO shoots man attacking FF

    Shoot, don't shoot.
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