Recent content by EMT856

:excl: Good thing I still have a couple years before im a physician.

everything over the EMT skill set is strictly for family.

When you have a loved one whom you've had to drop an airway in and bag because they unexplainably went into resp arrest and hypotensive (SBP <75) then you want everything you need to keep them alive until the unreliable ems system in your area can get you some help (sometimes over an hour)

I have my own kit at home, I think if I remember everything right its: 4x4s, 5x9s, trauma dressings, kling, trauma stopper, sam splints ,chest seal , other bandaging stuff, saline for irrig, most NPA sizes, all OPA sizes, BVM, D sized oxygen cyl, Laryngoscope, ET tubes, scalpel, Nitro, Epi...

the original 220, plus at least an additional 100-150. However long is needed in order to teach these skills effectively.

I was taught to use NRB first and NC if they cant tol. a NRB. This wasnt that long ago either.

I am not saying lets just give everyone a wider scope with no additional training, I am saying we should be getting this training to begin with.

Well, then I guess they need to revise a lot of protocols. I am sorry if y'all have different protocols but I am basing my responses on the protocols that I have worked with my entire career.

Now lets say protocols say put patient on 02, and you dont. Patient dies anyways, but now you are liable because you didnt follow protocols. My AMS protocol states any pt with AMS gets oxygen.

Yes, I know it is dangerous in a longer term exposure. I am saying if you are in doubt or unsure then putting someone on HF 02 for 10-30 minutes until a doctor or other advanced practitioner can make the assessment that they dont need it, you are not going to do any damage.

I am not by any means saying just do it because you can, but if you think that it might be of use, then use it.

Studies have been done by those with Medical Degrees, the ones who write the protocols that we all should at least consider, that have shown that prehospital high flow oxygen is not going to cause any ill effects. We do not know in the field what is going on for certain no matter how much we...

Explain how an EMT-B is supposed to field diagnose an AMI? Chest pain and Neuro protocols basically order you to use O2 anyways.

Explain exactly how 20-30 minutes of oxygen is exactly what is wrong with EMS as a whole?

For the CPAP, shave the face with a handy dandy sterile electric trimmer