Recent content by laurenee123

Unfortunately no. I've only been back to that hospital once since and they had a different staff.

The only hx he had was that he went to an after hours clinic the week before because he was having mild DB. They gave him an inhaler and some antibiotics. He didn't know the diagnosis or what the antibiotics were. He told us at the hospital that he was on Coumadin because he gets blood clots...

On his R arm: 180/110 170/100 168/100 Automatic cuff on his L kept reading 77/54. We switched arms when we were bout to pull into the hospital and then the automatic said there was poor connection. I palped 150.

I am still in paramedic school so I promise I'm by far not the smartest on here. That's why I was looking for an explanation. We did have the ETCO2 as a cannula. And we discontinued the CPAP because his sats lowered when we put it on. His lung sounds cleared up but his SpO2 was higher when he...

Oh! Sorry forgot to add that part. His ETCO2 was 13? And the initial thing we did was cpap. From there we moved to NRB.

Went on a call yesterday for a guy with difficulty breathing. Get there, he has audible rales and sweating profusely. It looked like someone just poured a bottle of water on him. So we get him in the truck: hook up the monitor it read sinus tach 130, pulse ox read 60, put him on CPAP, ran a 12...