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    Grossest Call?

    Cooties.... thats it right there
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    Tips for starting IV's

    So after years of studying and technique analyzing... I have grown to like the blood pressure cuff method.... learned in the 80's... rebirthed it in the late 90s when my success rate for critical patients and the elderly was not great. Gotta take a BP anyway for med admin.... so why not save...
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    ETCO2 of 9

    Ehh ehh... forgot about the OD... I wonder if the hydrocarbons can change the pH in a way that would give those results... definitely interesting!!!
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    Serial 12 Lead EKG in prehospital setting (How many of you do it?)

    Yes. First contact, after each treatment, and on arrival of destination
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    ETCO2 of 9

    Did it stay that way, or did it start to rise after 5-10 minutes? She prob hyperventilated herself out.... takes some time to autoregulate
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    Shock into Asystole?

    It does happen, even with the best CPR. I have a few code summaries that show that.... V-fib pre defib.... and asystole post. Still workable. Does not mean they are any "deader". I wish they would come back with pacing during CPR.... it seemed to work.
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    30:2 - Gold standard or just a suggestion?

    Sounds oddly familiar.... lets see if I can shove my hallucinations into words. About 8 or so years ago, there was a study using new ultrasound technology showing that each time CPR was stopped, there was a forward blood flow that continued because of a pressure gradient between aortic...
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    Air in Lines?

    Google..... http://cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn/uptodate/critical%20care/embolic%20disease/air%20embolism.htm "....(Durant maneuver) and Trendelenburg position. This helps to prevent air from traveling through the right side of the heart into the pulmonary arteries, leading to right ventricular...
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    Air in Lines?

    :P Sounds like half of our crews...
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    Air in Lines?

    As long as you prime the line per the instructions on the package with good technique..... you will minimize all that stuff.
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    When to use backboard and collar on infant/toddler

    Protocol should dictate that. For instance, ours advises that <18 y/o get fully immobilzed based on a fall/mechanism of injury indicating spine/head trauma. This kid would get immobilized for me. Peds can be tough to immobilize, and on top of that you have emotion that tends to get in the...
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    Just One Piece of Advice

    Don't get full on greasy pizza..... that GI blockage pt will come, and code.
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    A-Fib in WPW

    I noticed that from AHA... seems like it is not being used as much as it used to be. Depending on what ER doc you talk to, is what answer you will recieve. Such inconsistancy.....:glare:
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    I used SEARCH and no dice: trans-tracheal meds

    NAVEL-G is the acronym we used to use back in the day. Narcan, Atropine, Valium/Versed ( water based versions only ), Epi, Lidocaine and Glucagon. That route these days are a last resort option in a person who has brittle bone disease without arms and legs, no central line and poor jugular...
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