Recent content by GraysonK

Ok, so I just need this all straightened out... Heres what I think I have Electrolytes include: Sodium, Chloride, Potassium, so on... If we dont drink any water, dehydration results (could this also be called hypernatremia??) If we drink alot of water without taking in any...

I am....awful at getting patients blood pressures (Im discovering) Any advice? I usually just...cant hear it, I dont know whether I've positioned my stethoscope wrong, or if Im just not listening well enough And Im not sure which sound to record systolic on, as I often hear a very faint...

As I understand it, you CAN take a blood pressure like that (Ive fiddled with it) But I dont believe it scales itself the right way. You can definitely determine things such as trends in the patient, but you cant scale those results to anything else, like checking blood pressure to give...

How will having too many electrolytes in the bloodstream affect a patient? Couldnt you just play it safe and give a patient as much SALT-water, or gatorade, as they asked for, until ALS arrived? Im very curious about the subject because I'm also a member of a fire company...one of two...

I've just finished the EMT-B course a few months ago, and I was curious about all the different variables on giving patients fluids for patients suffering from shock, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. Ive read the course texts, and numerous online sources on how to treat it. As far as I...