Recent content by nsom9ac

man you people! so quick to sit on your high horse and point your finger. just like all the other monkeys out there that simply agree with whatever the first person says, not actually contributing anything else to the conversation. unless it's a poll, who cares how many people agree with whom...

Yes I do, and I have ... 3 times now! Like I mentioned before, I've been told 1) to shock using the standard 200J biphasic setting 2) to set the machine to the monophasic setting of 360J and the machine will convert it to the correct output and now 3) i have a i don't know answer from someone...

what do you mean "as you normally would"? i've been told conflicting information ranging from using the monophasic energy settings to using standard biphasic settings. so which do you use with this machine?

i was mistaken, it is actually the pic 50

i just started at a busy inner city agency that uses the MRL (pic 40 i believe). it's biphasic, but i've been told conflicting info about energy settings. i was told once that you use the monophasic setting and the machine converts it to the proper energy, but i've also been told to use the...

Think about what's going on with the patient and what the different drugs available do. When you really think about it, I think you'll see that albuterol is more of a last ditch effort when the standard treatment isn't working or maybe isn't working well enough. Another thing i've heard of being...

no i hear they actually have ns in kenya :P I heard our manager from the new company complaining about how much of all our supplies are being used. I don't remember the numbers but in the last month there's been an astronomical amount of ns used, as well as various other supplies. So they've...

Since we've had the shortage of ns and taking advice from Rid i've began starting locks on almost all my patients. I like that better (of course when it's appropriate) it's one less thing I have to worry about when transferring the patient. Also i use a needleless j loop like what the area...

the medic school i attended required us to go through an exit interview with the medical director (who is also medical director for the private ambulance co that runs the school and med director for the largest level 1 hospital in the area). during my interview with him he talked about how he...

Looks like we're in the great NS shortage of winter 07/08. over the last few weeks our saline supply has dwindled down to nothing. all we have now is 1000cc bags of LR and what NS we have in trauma and ped bags. I recall in medic class we talked about situations when you might want to use LR...

hey partner, sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. in the midst of the christmas season i also bought and moved into a new house with my fiance, so we've been pretty busy. as far as the new gateway goes, so far so good. i hear we get the new uniforms sometime in the next 2 weeks, and...

I don't know if that's good or bad. So far we haven't heard anything concrete. We had our new employee orientation for benefits and to get on the payroll, but haven't heard much else. i hear we're supposed to get new trucks, equipment and uniforms but at this point i personally haven't heard...

update: ok it's not quite as bad as i originally thought. yes they made us do apps but very bare bones info on them basically just to have them on file, then the probation was waived for us as well as the waiting period for benefits. and like you guys, everyone here has a clean slate as well...

well after this discussion i went out and bought the bob page 12 lead book. i'm not finished with it yet, but what i have learned so far has brought my level of understanding and interpretation up to point where i understand the importance of 12 leads and i'm not afraid of running one...

well if you're talking about defib, the new acls calls for all shocks to be at 360 or biphasic equivalent (which i've also been told to use 200). as far as c-version settings go, i've asked the question before more than once and got a less than comforting unsure answer. however, at the service i...